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Since the construction of a Google data center in The Dalles, Oregon in 2006,
the city has become a magnet for data centers looking for tax breaks, and
cheap energy and water to power and cool them. Beginning in 2021, with
representation from the Reporters Committee for Fre...
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Desiree Hellegers hosts this episode of The Old Mole Variety Hour, which
features
Criminalizing Solidarity: Historian Rachel Ida Buff talks with Frann Michel
about connections between attacks on encampments in support of Palestine and
encampments of houseless people, as ...
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Eco-Disasters in Japanese Film. Japan has rich traditions of filmmaking and
of approaching films as commentary on daily life. But Japanese cinema also
offers rich commentary on ecological crises. Jan Haaken talks with University
of Oregon professor Rachel DiNitto about her ...
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Norm Diamond is our host for this edition of the Old Mole and we hear--
1. Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Laurie Mercier discuss the classic labor and
feminist film "Salt of the Earth."
2. Historian Raymond Caballero talks with Norm Diamond about McCarthyism and
union struggle...
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Norm Diamond talks with Steven Beda, at the U of Oregon, about his research
on the environmental and political history of rural working class communities
in our region, with special attention to logging communities and the
International Woodworkers of America (IWA).
im...
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Norm Diamond talks with Amy Coplen, a Ph.D student at PSU, studying and
participating in organizing among Portland’s food service workers, with a
focus on the Burgerville campaign and so-called “progressive” employers.
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