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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Bill Resnick talks with Jeremy Brecher about a Green New Deal, a mobilization
of U.S. resources, as in World War II, to show the way to stop global
heating. A proposal for just that has been submitted to the U.S. Congress by
a group of newly elected legislators, vastly rais...
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Clayton Morgareidge lays out the enormous changes demanded by a Green New
Deal, and argues that the movement behind a Green New Deal has to be
anti-capitalist.
You can read this commentary here.
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On Weds December 12th The Hollywood Theater will screen Todd Haynes 2015
film "Carol" in 35mm. Presented for the holiday season as part of the
Hollywood Theaters’ once monthly Queer Commons Film Festival, Carol stars
Cate Blanchet and Rooney Mara and tells the story of a fo...
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In this Left and the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker (pictured here
in the studio) take up asylum politics and a California federal judge's
ruling last month blocking the Trump administration's proclomation that
people who crossed the border between official porta...
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Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear these
segments:
1. Bill Resnick and Jeremy Brecher discuss the proposal sponsored by
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for a Green New Deal.
2. Clayton Morgareidge shows how a Green New Deal would run against the g...
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Laurie Mercier interviews Thomas Hanna, Research Director of the Democracy
Collaborative, about democratic ownership and public banking. Hanna is author
of the new book Our common wealth: The return of public ownership in the
United States; a recent piece “We Need Public Ow...
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Clayton Morgareidge hosts, and we hear:
Bill Resnick talks with Amy Cantrell, a North Carolina minister who has been
organizing to help victims of Hurricane Florence.
Thomas Hanna of the Democracy Collaborative talks with the Old Mole’s
Laurie Mercier about the ret...
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Bill Resnick interviews Amy Cantrell, a minister who founded Beloved
Community Asheville which organized to assist the poor people in Lumberton
and Robeson County. As with Katrina and Sandy, the public authorities rush in
to help the white and well to do and to protect thei...
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Movie Moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel review the film Killer of Sheep.
It’s about African-American life in Watts in the early 1970s, and one of
the "100 Essential Films" of all time according to the National Society of
Film Critics. The film is available at Movie Madne...
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