Bill Resnick talks with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein about Wal-Mart
and the workers organizing against it on Black Friday. Joe Clement
introduces Utah Phillips talking & singing about blaming & dumping the
bosses. The movie moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel discuss...
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Movie moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel discuss the new film Argo, about the
CIA's "exfiltration" of six US embassy workers hidden in Tehran by Canadian
diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis. Although the popular movie
offers some valuable historical information cr...
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Around 300 protesters gathered in the Lloyd District on November 3rd for an
unpermitted march against austerity. The police were out in their riot gear
force and used pepper spray for crowd control. High school students bore
the brunt of the violence and hel...
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Alan Wieder hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear:
Alan call for a rethinking of Thanksgiving and what we teach our children
about it
Bill Resnick talks with Stephen Zunes about Palestine and Israel
Larry Bowlden reviews Charity Shumway's "10 Girls to W...
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Joe Clement remarks briefly on the massively coordinated strikes in Europe
and comments on their meaning. He quotes or mentions material from
Counterfire.org, Libcom.org, The Christian Science Monitor and the Wall
Street Journal.
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Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair about immigrants-rights rhetoric and how
certain strategies meant to insulate them from stereotypes and "include" may
shutter the actual situation of undocument workers. She argues that the
"undocumented not afraid" movement started as a...
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Tom Becker reads from "The Opiate of Exceptionalism" by NY Times editorialist
Scott Shane. It focuses on the myth of American exceptionalism as the reason
why we can't get politicians to talk about inequality and injustice.
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The zombie apocalypse is not a new cultural craze for Americans, but its
recent resurgence during the Great Recession deserves some scrutiny for the
way it invokes the lost figure of the zombie-worker. That's what David
McNally (mis-announced as Daniel) argues in an article...
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Joe Clement talks with Gina of the Portland Action Lab about anti-austerity
actions that're being planned for November 3rd 2012. She describes the way
that PAL and the groups who work with it are resisting austerity as "the new
normal" and underscoring the hugely neglected ...
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