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Left and The Law: Policing and the Law in Ferguson

Airs at: Mon, 09/08/2014 at 12:00am
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What legal recourse do the victims of police misconduct, like the family of Michael Brown, have?  Legal Moles Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken discuss how the legal climate has developed from the time of Reconstruction to the present day, and how court judgments against poli... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 8, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 09/08/2014 at 12:00am
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Iven Hale hosts this edition of the Old Mole with a focus on the aftermath of the police killing of  Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.  Also on the show are pieces on agriculture and climate change and liberation from working on the clock.  It's all held together with... Read more

Farming and the Environment

Airs at: Mon, 09/08/2014 at 12:00am
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"Organic agriculture can feed the world," says Catherine Badgley who teaches Ecology and the Evolution of Agriculture at the University of Michigan. Here she talks with Old Mole Bill Resnick about the impact of industrial agriculture on our climate and how our food could... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour Labor Day 2014

Airs at: Mon, 09/01/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Joe Clement hosts this Labor Day special and we hear: Joe talks with Nathan Schneider about "Who Stole the Four Hour Work-Day?", an article he wrote for Vice magazine about goals that drove the labor movement in its heyday, including the Industrial Workers of the Worl... Read more

Raising Expectations, and Raising Hell: Jane McAlevey's book on rank-and-file unionism

Airs at: Mon, 09/01/2014 at 12:00am
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Old Moles Bill Resnick and Norm Diamond talk about union organizing by way of a mutual review of Jane McAlevey's book "Raising Expecations, and Raising Hell: my decade fighting for the labor movement". They consider the official and cynical meaning of labor day, but also... Read more

Who Stole the 4-hour Work Day?

Airs at: Mon, 09/01/2014 at 12:00am
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Joe Clement and Nathan Schneider discuss an article he wrote recently for Vice Magazine that asks "who stole the 4-hour work day". They consider different rationales for reducing the work week, the social and psychological damage of working too much, its long past stretc... Read more

Kathi Weeks: debunking utopianism's critics

Airs at: Mon, 09/01/2014 at 12:00am
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Joe Clement brings Kathi Weeks back on the show to talk about another chapter in her book The Problem With Work: marxism, feminism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries: utopianism. Kathi describes both realistic and deliberately unrealistic invocations of the uto... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour Labor Day Special 2014

Airs at: Mon, 09/01/2014 at 12:00am
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Joe Clement hosts this labor day special, which features conversations about reducing the work week and having real power in society as workers, challenging stagnant norms in union organizing, the problem with work and utopianism. We also hear clips of political humor in... Read more

Kristian Williams on Our Enemies in Ferguson

Airs at: Tue, 08/26/2014 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick interviews Kristian Williams about policing in Ferguson. Williams is the author of several books on state violence, including Our Enemies in Blue , which argues that the role of the police is to enforce social inequality. Noting that Michael Brown's killing... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 08/25/14

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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