As we approach the 36th anniversary of the emergence of the nearly twenty
year long anti-nuclear Greenham Commons Women's Peace Camp, Desiree
Hellegers interviews Portland singer-songwriter Naomi Little Bear Morena
about the life cycle of her song, "You can't kill the...
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Book Mole Larry Bowlden discusses White Fur, a new novel by Jardine Lebaire.
It is a tale of love and class and money and death and New York City in the
1980’s.
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Jan Haaken talks with No More Deaths volunteer Sophie Smith about the recent
wave of repression faced by humanitarian aid workers on the US-Mexico border
under the Trump Administration. Sophie reports on the new challenges that
face the decades-long effort to stop dea...
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Joe Clement hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear:
1. Bill Resnick and Nico Larco discuss the major social impacts of coming
technologies;
2 Desiree Hellegers and Naomi Little Bear Morena about Morena's movement
anthem, "You Can't Kill the Spirit"
3. Larry Bow...
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Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear the following segments. Musical
selection: The George Fox Song, The Red Flag, and What's Going On?
Bill Resnick and KBOO engineer and programmer, John Shuck, discuss
progressive religion and its critique of traditional theism a...
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Joe Clement and Jan Haaken review the 2016 Disney film, "Moana." The film
tells the story of its tituluar character, a Polynesian teenage princess who
reclaims her people's long-repressed identity as deep-sea voyagers. Against
her father's protests, she leaves the island...
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(trigger warning: Woody Allen) The cgi-animated adventure-comedy
Antz (1998), available from the Multnomah County Library, shows viewers
of all ages that when you are confronted with the threat of a fascist
takeover, the appropriate response is to organize the worke...
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Joe Clement* talks with Zak Wear of Fair and Affordable Richmond. He was the
campaign manager of Measure L, a ballot measure that passed in the November
election of last year, thereby establishing rent-control and eliminating
no-cause evictions. They talk about what the ...
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Joe Clement hosts and we hear:
Bill Resnick and Rob Wallace talk about how capitalist agriculture creates
disease
Desiree Hellegers and Ramon Ramirez of PCUN talk about the Woodburn ICE
raids
Tom Becker reads about the radical anti-capitalist origins of International ...
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