TRUMP AND SYRIA, MLK & POVERTY, PORTLAND WAR SHIP, GOVERNMENT RACISM
Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole, and we hear:
1. Bill Resnick and peace activist Bruce Gagnon discuss US military power in
the "post-primacy world";
2. Laurie Mercier talks with Michael Hone...
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On this especially varied hour, Bill Resnick hosts, and we hear these
segments:
Jan Haaken talks with psychoanalyst, professor, and author Jill Gentile about
Trump
Bill Resnick talks with Bob Peterson about attacks on public education
Frann Michel finds solace in th...
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Frann Michel reviews Jack London's 1908 novel, The Iron Heel (available
online for download and through the Multnomah County Library). One of
London's most socialist novels, it tells the story of how a failed revolution
in the US leads to the centuries long reign of a fasci...
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Frann Michel discusses Trump's Trans Tweets, the role of gender in the
right-wing imaginary, and the divided responses from left and liberal
commenters.
Information also drawn from Political Research, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore,
and Dean Spade.
See also Katherine Cr...
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Frann Michel discusses the recent success of the Reproductive Health Equity
Act, which will ensure that Oregonians, regardless of income, citizenship
status, gender identity, or (mostly) type of insurance, have access to the
full range of preventive reproductive health s...
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Frann Michel hosts this episode, which includes these segments:
Bill Resnick interviews Larry Kleinman, co-founder of PCUN, about current
immigration issues;
Movie Moles Joe Clement & Frann Michel discuss Antz (1998), a cartoon for
workers of all ages;
Jan Haaken int...
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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 workers....
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Frann Michel hosts this Memorial Day episode, which features music by Bob
Marley, "War"; The Clash, "Washington Bullets"; and Curtis Mayfield, "We
Got to have Peace"; as well as these segments:
Jan Haaken talks with Jacob Reisberg about Standing Rock Legal Defense
Bil...
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Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with Conn Hallinan about Trump’s foreign
policy: Is there a pattern? Is he just an impulsive madman? Or are we looking
at the throes of the wounded U.S. empire at the end of the American
century? Conn Hallinan writes for Foreign Policy In Focus ...
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Desiree Hellegers interviews Huy Ong, Executive Director of OPAL
Environmental Justice Oregon, about their organizing work with Bus Riders
Unite and about Trimet's 2018 budget proposal, which includes $11 million
dollars for a new Rose Quarter transit police station and ...
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