Thom Becker

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Thom Becker

Old Mole Variety Hour 05/06/18

Airs at: Mon, 05/07/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Bill Resnick comments on the US military and climate change. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 04/30/18

Airs at: Mon, 04/30/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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ORGANIZING, SUING THE FEDS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE and ANTIRACIST STRATEGY Clayton Morgareidge will host this edition of the Old Mole, featuring-- Discussions of two major organizing projects with broad social justice agendas now emerging in Portland: The Oregon Poor Peoples C... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 04/23/18

Airs at: Mon, 04/23/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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News views and interviews from a Socialist, Feminist perspective   Denise Morris host this episode of the Old Mole which includes: Bill Resnick interviews Suzanne Gordon on her new book The Battle for Veterans Healthcare: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Policy-Making a... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 04/16/18

Airs at: Mon, 04/16/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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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... Read more

What About Guns?

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Traven Leyshon is a longtime labor and socialist activist, has a radio show on Vermont commercial radio, Equal Time with Traven, and writes a lot. He grew up in rural gun culture.  Here he talks with the Old Mole’s Bill Resnick about how the left can enter the current great... Read more

Spying on Employees

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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You’ve been fired. According to your employer’s data, your facial expressions showed you were insubordinate and not trustworthy. You also move your hands at a rate that is considered substandard. Other companies you may want to work for could receive this data, making it di... Read more

"Women's" Fiction

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Distributors like Amazon have a genre called women’s fiction (used to be called romance), and it is obvious they treat this as light reading.  According to our Book Mole, Larry Bowlden, so-called women’s fiction (including many romance novels) are often excellent at describ... Read more

Music and Politics

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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 Bil Resnick talks with Jeff Hunt, a millennial generation radical who keeps up with grass roots music and its resistant qualities. We discuss how many inspirational songs are two-edged, sometimes backfiring:  They may promote ideas that America is the land of opportunity f... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 19, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Thom Becker hosts this show containing these segments: 1. Bill Resnick talks with Treyven Layshon about gun violence and how to respond to it, 2. Book Mole Larry Bowlden explains the underestimated value of "women's" literature. 3. Tom Becker reads Thor Benson's piece fro... Read more

Mental Health Support for Palestinians

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Jan Haaken talks with psychiatrist Elizabeth Berger about psychological dynamics of living under Israeli occupation for Palestinian children, and some of the links between human rights and mental health.  Berger is a child psychiatrist living in New York City and on the steeri... Read more