Patricia Kullberg

We have only one day out of 365 to celebrate the planet that we are slowly killing. But that’s not all. Earth Day has become a handy opportunity for corporations to greenwash and for businesses to profit from “Earth Day” product sales. Environmental writer, Tim Smedley, ... Read more

Luisa Martinez pursues a wide-ranging discussion with immigration lawyer Daniel Kanstroom about the ideology, history and political economy of immigration in the United States. In part one, they take up the political economy of labor migration, the historical antecedents... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Assault on the Environment: One of the first executive orders issued by Trump in January was a Whitehouse paper titled "Unleashing American Energy." It promises to restore Am... Read more

One of the first executive orders issued by Trump in January was a Whitehouse paper titled "Unleashing American Energy." It promises to restore American prosperity by removing legal barriers, including laws in many states, to the extraction of natural resources. In their... Read more

Patricia Kullberg speaks with Luisa Martinez about growing up undocumented in Florida and the deprivation and shame entailed in living as an impoverished Latina without papers. She relates how encountering the ideas of socialism offered her a new perspective on how imper... Read more

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz argues that migrants to the US, largely from the global south, are Americanized in ways that obscure the settler-colonialism that this country was founded on and that we have yet to reckon with. Our Well Read Red, Patricia Kullberg reads excerpts fro... Read more

Movie Moles Laurie Mercier and Frann Michel discuss the 1983 film El Norte. Directed and co-written by Gregory Nava, El Norte is an award winning, independent epic US film, notable for centering the experiences of two indigenous Mayan migrants from Guatemala as they move... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments on immigration: Growing up Undocumented: Patricia Kullberg speaks with Luisa Martinez about growing up undocumented in Florida and the deprivation and shame entailed in living... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast of a show from Against the Grain. Our world is replete with problems, calling out for repair and change. Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have solutions at the ready – tech fixes and innovation... Read more

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast from Against the Grain. Black parents worry about racism’s impact on their children. Jennifer C. Nash is interested in both the nature of racialized anxiety and the way it’s rendered visible t... Read more