Mike Snedecker talks with journalist, Debbie Nathan, about conditions at the
border. They consider how the Trump administration's policies against asylum
seekers and refugees are, by diverting them to border-towns, setting up a
powder-keg in light of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
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Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear:
A dramatic reading of excerpts of Nikole Hannah-Jone's essay, "Our
Democracy's Founding Ideals Were False When They Were Written; Black
Americans Have Fought to Make Them True." Sharon Grant reads, Bill Resnick
introduces.
Boo...
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Joe Clement presents a collection of traditional banjo music and
documentaries shining light on the Afro-Atlantic origins of the banjo, and
some of its enduring significance for American history.
Rhiannon Giddens performs: Julie and Better Get Yer Lernin'
Marc Dewitt art h...
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Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Kiley Reid's debut novel, Such a Fun Age,
which very skillfully discloses issues of race and class. Especially
impressive is how she lets her characters tell the story and raise the
issues, rather than acting as an omniscient narrator. The no...
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Joe Clement hosts and we hear:
Bill Resnick talks with James Ofsink of the organization Portland Forward
about local struggles over the Portland Police contract.
Joe shares memories of and a commentary by late Old Mole, Clayton
Morgareidge
The Left and the Law, with spe...
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Frann Michel presents an edited recording of June Jordan reading "A Poem
About My Rights," followed by a flash mob performance in Los Angeles of
the Chilean feminist anthem "El Violador es Tu."
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Joe Clement shares memories of how he met late Old Mole, Clayton Morgareidge,
and introduces a commentary and reading Clayton produced in 2015 about
abolishing slavery as an attack on unjust property relations that remains
incomplete.
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Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear:
Autoworkers and Climate Change: Bill Resnick talks with Sam Gindin about the
United Auto Workers and GM in Canada, and raising expectations around not
just bread-and-butter issues but retooling the auto industry to combat
climate...
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Bill Resnick talks with Sam Gindin about the United Auto Workers and GM in
Canada, and raising expectations around not just bread-and-butter issues but
retooling the auto industry to combat climate change. Sam Gindin is the
former Research Director of the Canadian Autoworke...
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Joe Clement talks with Ron Purser about his new book "McMindfulness: how
mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality". This is mindfulness
meditation as a commercialized, colonized, corporate version of Buddhist
practice promoted for stress reduction and concentratio...
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