This is KBOO's daily covid 19 report for Thursday May 21st I'm Joe
Clements.
Known cases of covid 19 continue to rise as there are now close to
4,859,000 confirmed cases worldwide, with over 329,000 fatalities. The
United States continues to lead the world in recorded cases w...
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In their Left and the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker look at the
picture that is emerging of the coronavirus spreading in jails and prisons in
the US. They discuss the lawsuits and political actions taken by prisoners
themselves to address the pandemic and the...
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Jan Haaken and Bill Resnick critically review the new documentary, "Planet of
the Humans", directed by Jeff Gibbs and excutively produced/promoted by
Michael Moore. Released on Earth Day and still available to watch for free on
Youtube, Planet of the Humans presents a sc...
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Old Mole Intern Sarah Summerhill reads an excerpt from her piece
"Boundaries," recently published in Washington State University Vancouver's
literary magazine, the Salmon Creek Journal. The essay was inspired by an
experience in a Native American literature class last su...
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In a two-part segment, we first hear political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal
reflect on the popularity of Star Wars as a political myth of imperial
innocence in post-Vietnam America.* This is followed by Joe Clement talking
with science fiction scholar and activist Walidah Im...
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Joe Clement hosts this special May the 4th Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear:
Planet of the Humans: Jan Haaken and Bill Resnick critically review the new
documentary, "Planet of the Humans" -- directed by Jeff Gibbs and executively
produced/promoted by Michael Moore. Rele...
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World wide there are now well over two million confirmed cases of COVID-19
with nearly 640,000 of those in the United States, however the number of
cases in the US is thought to be much higher due to a lack of available
test kits.
As the unemployment rate in Oregon cont...
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Joe Clement hosts this home-recorded episode and we hear:
Jazz and Justice: Bill Resnick and black Marxist historian Gerald Horne talk
about the politics of jazz.
Operation Homestead: From the Old Mole archive, Desiree Hellegers talks with
Seattle housing activists about...
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Bill Resnick talks with black Marxist historian, Gerald Horne, about his book
Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music. They
consider the lives of jazz greats, the racism they faced on the one hand and
the exploitation they faced on the other, and ...
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