Drawing from Edward Baptist's book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and
the Making of American Capitalism (available as a book or ebook at the
Multnomah County Library), Clayton Morgareidge argues that the Civil War and
the 14th Amendment abolishing slavery constitu...
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Bill Resnick talks with Michael Armstrong, who leads the Sustainability
section of the Portland's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. The Bureau
just released a draft of the 2015 Portland/Multnomah County Climate Action
Plan. Armstrong talks about what he would do if ...
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Joe Clement interviews an organizer with The Portland Solidarity
Network about their work and a recent tenant-led campaign against Fox
Property Management. They discuss some of the barriers to conventional legal
recourse faced by low-income renters and the frightening p...
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Tom Becker reads Robert Hunziker's article from Counterpunch dealing with the
imminence of serious drought due to climate change.
Keller Fountain dry" by Tedder - Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via
Wikimedia Commons.">Photo Credit: Tedder
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Tod Sloan reads from the introduction to Chris Dixon's Another Politics, a
book assessing the trends among grassroots groups on the anti-authoritarian
left, based on interviews with over 200 North American activists.
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Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Mole and we hear:
1. Bill Resnick talks with Portland city sustainable official Michael
Armstrong about what Portland is doing about climate change.
2. Tom Becker reads an article about the imminent dangers of serious water
shortages...
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Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear:
Bill Resnick talks with Brian Tokar about climate change and our best
chances for avoiding mass death.
"Is the future of America a crummy service job stamping on a human face,
forever?" Joe reads an article that explo...
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Joe Clement reads an article by Dylan Matthews titled "Is The Future Of
America A Crummy Service Job Stamping On A Human Face, Forever?" He considers
how Rand Paul and Hillary Clinton both approach the economy in much the same
way: make sure that there's a ready supply o...
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Bill Resnick talks with Brian Tokar of the Institute for Social Ecology,
350vermont , and UVM about climate apocalypse and why we shouldn't despair.
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Alan Weider discusses Studs Terkel and the hurts of American racism, with
sounds of Terkel from transom.org and Mahalia Jackson from WFMT Chicago.
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