Tom Becker reads an essay by Tom Engelhardt entitled "We're Not the Good
Guys." Engelhardt highlights the hypocrisy of the U.S. Military, the U.S.
Government and the news media in there portrayal of the U.S. military's
mission as a benevolent-counter force to the aggression...
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Tom Becker hosts today's show which includes:
Forest Health and Climate Change: An interview with Brenna Bell, forest
protector and Policy Director and Attorney for Bark.
Socialism or Barbarism: A reading from an essay by Rosa Luxemburg.
The Things We Don’t Say: A review o...
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Good morning. This is Frann Michel for the Well-Read Red, with some
comments on “Socialism or Barbarism,” a slogan most associated with
the work of Rosa Luxemburg.
Luxemburg was born in Russian-controlled Poland in 1871 to a Jewish family,
and early in her life becam...
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Bill Resnick interviews Brenna Bell, a forest protector with an extensive
background in environmental law and education, who is Policy Director and
Attorney for Bark, an organization dedicated to the preservation and
restoration of Mt. Hood National Forest.
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Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Ella Carey’s 2018 novel, The Things We
Don’t Say, set in early twentieth century London and Provence. The book is
inspired by the history of a collective of young artists and writers known as
the Bloomsbury Group.
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Left and the Law commentator Mike Snedecker interviews Jim Smith, an
immigration lawyer who lives and practices at the border. Using the example
of Honduras, they discuss the “push” factors (poverty, violence and
political repression) that impel immigrants to leave their ho...
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Our Left and the Law team, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker, give us an update
on the Juliana vs United States government case--the civil lawsuit filed by
17 young people in Oregon against the US government. The case argues that
government inaction on the climate crisis is depr...
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Hosted by Tom Becker, this edition of the Old Mole includes these pieces:
Second grade teacher Rachel Hanes talks about the dillemas facing public
school teachers
A conversation about how to carry out political education
An article "As the World Burns: Hurtling Towards ...
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Bill Resnick interviews Rachel Hanes an outstanding 2nd grade teacher and a
member of the Portland Association of Teachers Union. She serves on the
union’s environmental education committee. In this first part of a
two-part interview, Bill and Rachel discuss the challenges...
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Joe Clement and Kevin Dugan start a series of conversations about political
education, introducing the union acronym AEIOU - agitate, educate,
inoculate, organize, and union. Here they expand on these five concepts and
explain how you can use them to educate your friends an...
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