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Who Really Supports Trump?

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2016 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick talks to Jack Metsgar about who voted for Hitler and who is now supporting Donald Trump. Turns out it wasn't working people but conservatives, business, the religious mostly Protestants, and the right.  Jack Metsgar is the author of a personal memoir and histo... Read more

Two Kinds of Investment: or why we can't afford the rich

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2016 at 12:00am
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Joe Clement reads from Andrew Sayers 2015 book, Why We Cannot Afford The Rich (available at the Multnomah County Library ). This excerpt offers a politically conscious interpretation of the term "investment" in everyday discussions of economic matters. Sayers distinguish... Read more

Gentrification of the Mind

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2016 at 12:00am
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Mara Zusman reads from Sara Schulman's 2012 book The Gentrification of the Mind --  about how gentrification undermines the space for creative work. Read more

"Free Trade," Fair Trade, and the TPP

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2016 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick talks to Michael Shannon of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign on U.S international trade policy that has been designed by corporate lawyers to benefit international capital at the expense of workers around the planet, unions, human rights, and the environment.  Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 21, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2016 at 12:00am
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Denise Morris hosts this show, and we hear --  1.  Jack Metsgar, talking with Bill Resnick, explains that it's not white working class men who are voting for Trump so much as men with college degrees.  2.  Joe Clement reads from a book by Andrew Sayers's explaining the ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Bill Resnick interviews Mark Engler, co-author of "This Is an Uprising: How Non-Violent Revolt Is Shaping the 21st C.     Jan Haaken talks with documentary director on her new movie "Trapped," about attempts to close abortion clinics with unreasonalbe requirements.   Lar... Read more

Revolutionary Non-Violent Direct Action in the 21st Century

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2016 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick interviews Mark Engler, co-author with Paul Engler of "This Is an Uprising: How Non-Violent Revolt Is Shaping the 21st Century". Read more

Book Mole: What She Left Behind

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2016 at 12:00am
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Larry Bolden reviews What She Left Behind, the harrowing tale of an eighteen year old woman who finds herself committed to a state asylum due to her rebelling against her father’s choice of whom she will marry. The author, Ellen Marie Wiseman, did extensive research into how... Read more

Documentary: Targeted Regulations at Abortion Providers

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2016 at 12:00am
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Jan Haaken interviews Dawn Porter, Director of the documentary film, TRAPPED, that will be playing at Cinema 21 for five days, opening on Friday March 18th.  In “Trapped,” documentarian Dawn Porter chronicles the lives of medical professionals who work at clinics in the Sout... Read more

History by Hillary

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2016 at 12:00am
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Well-read Red Frann Michel shares reports from TruthDig, Twitter and Al Jazeera America about Hillary Clinton's historical revisionism on Nancy Reagan, AIDS activism, and Honduras.  Read more