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Clayton Morgareidge selects and reads from some of the commentaries from the left about the shootings last week in Minneapolis, Baton Rouge, and Dallas.  Photo Credit: Susan Melkisethian / Flickr The sources are: DALLAS POLICE SHOOTING: BLOWBACK FROM IMPUNITY AND STRU... Read more

The Mondragon coop in the Basque region of Spain, owned and managed by its workers, has been seen by the left as a path beyond capitalism. But how has it worked out? Sharryn Kasmir has lived in and studied the town of Mondragon and talked with the workers, and found it l... Read more

Field Mole Desiree Hellegers covers voices from the Quinault Indian Nation's Shared Waters, Shared Values March and Rally from this past Saturday. The event brought together a Native canoe flotilla and non-native kayaktivists in a show of resistance to the proposed expan... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Aaward winning documentary filmmaker Kathy Kasic about her new documentary "Loose Horses." The film focuses on the the intermediary auction pens in which unwanted domestic horses might either find a new life or be sent to the slaughterhouse. Set in ... Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole; it includes these segments: 1.  Clayton selects and reads some commentary from the left on last week's shootings in Minneapolis, Baton Rouge, and Dallas. 2.  Bill Resnick talks with Sharryn Kasmir about her criti... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this 4th of July episode and we hear:   Bill resnick talks with Patricia Smith, former union organizer and lobbyist, about the plight of school-workers who make less than $15 and their importance in our educational communties. We hear a short documen... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Tricia Smith. She started in politics as a community activist in Keizer-Salem, got fed up with the state legislature, ran against the Republican leader and, shockingly, won, got recognized as tireless bulldog for working people. She was defeate... Read more

  The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert, is about the five catastrophic breaks in the history of life on earth and the sixth such catastrophe, which Kolbert maintains is now happening, and which we are already a few hundred years into. This the first of the great e... Read more

  The "Just Transition" is to that new economy necessary to avoid environmental cataclysm, a transition that creates good work and income for all and cleans up the environmental ruination of low income particularly people of color communities. That is, Just Transition m... Read more