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The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 15, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 06/15/2015 at 12:00am
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Tom Becker hosts this episode, which reflects on the value of history, the limits of old views, and the need for new visions. Bill Resnick talks with Leo Panitch about the situation of Greece's Syriza and the Eurozone. Tom Becker reads from Pete Dolack about why Keynesia... Read more

Book Mole: Lily King's novel Euphoria

Airs at: Mon, 06/15/2015 at 12:00am
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Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Lily King's novel Euphoria, a fictional account inspired by events in the lives of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. You can find more of Larry's reviews here on his blog: http://oldmolelist.blogspot.com/ Read more

Looking back with Pride, forward with visionary hope

Airs at: Mon, 06/15/2015 at 12:00am
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Frann Michel discusses the film Pride (2014) and the value of visionary fiction. For the text of her remarks with links to more information, go here. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 8

Airs at: Mon, 06/08/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Bill Resnick hosts this episode of the Old Mole. Here is what's on tap:   About 50% of the kids of Oregon live in poverty. What do you think our business leaders think should be done about that? Stay tuned. Our Movie Moles review the film “Let the Fire Burn” in mem... Read more

Child Poverty in Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 06/08/2015 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick and Tyler MacGuiness of the Oregon Center for Public Policy explore Child poverty in Oregon. Twenty-five percent of Oregon kids live in destitution, 50% are in ordinary poverty, and 75% of those are in working families. The "business community" has become co... Read more

Is the Anthropocene a Myth?

Airs at: Mon, 06/08/2015 at 12:00am
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Some writers on climate change use the idea of the "Anthropocene" to blame humanity in general for the degradation caused by burning fossil fuels. Andrea Malm critiques this concept in this article from Jacobin, read here in abridged form by Clayton Morgareidge. Capitali... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 8, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 06/08/2015 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick hosts this episode and it includes the following, together with music about being poor. 1.  Bill Resnick talks with Tyler Macguiness of the Oregon Center for Public Policy about the extent of child poverty in Oregon and what business leaders are willing, ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 1, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear...   Bill Resnick talks with Al Bradbury, a former KBOO Labor Radio host, who now works for the monthly labor magazine, Labor Notes. Larry Bowlden reviews "Intrusions", by Ursula Helgi---a novel within a novel that grapp... Read more

Book Mole: "Intrusions", by Ursula Hegi

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2015 at 12:00am
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Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Ursula Hegi's "Intrustions", a novel within a novel that confronts the writer's conflicted as a mother and artist. Read more

Labor Notes: Putting The Movement Back In The Labor Movement.

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2015 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick talks with Al Bradbary about the monthly journal, Labor Notes. They discuss exciting developments Labor Notes covers, the kind of radical rank-and-file tendency that they support through both their magazine, but also books digesting examples of recent succes... Read more