Bill Resnick talks with Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies
about why we should, in principle, be glad to pay our taxes, and how much
good our taxes could be doing in a fully democratic society. You can
subscribe to Chuck Collins's newsletter here.
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Appearing at the Trouble Makers School in Portland before more than
200 union members, stewards and activists, Barbara Madeloni discussed the
national picture for public pchool teachers organizing and how and why
strikes work. Madeloni is the Education Coordinator at Labor...
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The Old Mole's Left & the Law team, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker, review the
moratorium in California on the death penalty and the political shifts in
support for capital punishment. They also comment on a recent case
emphasizing the cruelty of putting people to death.
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Cinzia Arruzza talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about Women's Strike
USA and the book/pamphlet Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto which she
co-authored. They discuss the Women's Strike happening this Friday, March
8 in cities around the world, including Portland. Arruz...
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Film Maker and Old Mole Jan Haaken talks with Clayton Morgareidge about her
new film "Our Bodies, Our Doctors" premiering at the Portland International
Film Festival this week. The film tells the rarely-discussed story of what
it means to be an abortion provider today: conf...
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Clayton Morgareidge hosts this Women's Day edition of the Old Mole and we
hear:
1. Frann Michel gives us an overview of the International Women's Strike and
its demands.
2. Bill Resnick talks with an author of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto,
Cinzia Arruzza.
3. Jan Haa...
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Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared the trifecta of racism, militarism
and capitalism as the great problem facing humanity. Old Mole Clayton
Morgareidge considers two of those, capitalism and racism, and how as
dominant power structures they came to be through each other
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Bill Resnick concludes his 3-part interview with author and activist Kristian
Williams. Today they tackle the question of what the Left can do to prevent
the police from joining with fascists to declare martial law and do what
fascists do with those who resist. Can the poli...
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What if much of what we now call ‘neo-liberalism’ – deregulation,
inequality, and massive transfers of wealth to the wealthy—is really the
result of the corporate elites having fully accepted the reality of
catastrophic climate decades ago? Clayton Morgareidge explores thi...
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Denise Morris talks with Benjamin Donlon and Sandra Curtis Comstock about the
Central Eastside Industrial Council and the pending vote on a new proposal to
create an Enhanced Services District (EUD) in the central eastside, and how
Compassionate Change Districts, can improv...
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