Joe Clement

Book Mole Larry Bowlden discusses White Fur, a new novel by Jardine Lebaire. It is a tale of love and class and money and death and New York City in the 1980’s.    Read more

  Jan Haaken talks with No More Deaths volunteer Sophie Smith about the recent wave of repression faced by humanitarian aid workers on the US-Mexico border under the Trump Administration. Sophie reports on the new challenges that face the decades-long effort to stop death ... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear: 1. Bill Resnick and Nico Larco discuss the major social impacts of coming technologies; 2 Desiree Hellegers and Naomi Little Bear Morena about Morena's movement anthem, "You Can't Kill the Spirit" 3. Larry Bowld... Read more

Urban design professor Nico Larco talks with Bill Resnick about  new technologies such as autonomous vehicles (self-driving cars and buses) and e-commerce (buying things on line rather than going to stores). Unless these technologies are managed in the light of equity and s... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear the following segments. Musical selection: The George Fox Song, The Red Flag, and What's Going On? Bill Resnick and KBOO engineer and programmer, John Shuck, discuss progressive religion and its critique of traditional theism and... Read more

Joe Clement and Jan Haaken review the 2016 Disney film, "Moana." The film tells the story of its tituluar character, a Polynesian teenage princess who reclaims her people's long-repressed identity as deep-sea voyagers. Against her father's protests, she leaves the island to... Read more

  (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.... Read more

Joe Clement* talks with Zak Wear of Fair and Affordable Richmond. He was the campaign manager of Measure L, a ballot measure that passed in the November election of last year, thereby establishing rent-control and eliminating no-cause evictions. They talk about what the ord... Read more

Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick and Rob Wallace talk about how capitalist agriculture creates disease Desiree Hellegers and Ramon Ramirez of PCUN talk about the Woodburn ICE raids Tom Becker reads about the radical anti-capitalist origins of International W... Read more