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Organizing for Fair Trade

Airs at: Thu, 10/02/2008 at 1:42pm
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Bill Resnick talks with two Oregon activists about the positive vision of fair  trade: Arthur Stamoulis from the Oregon Fair Trade Coalition, and Shizuko Hashimoto with the Cross Border Organizing Committee of PCASC.   Check these links for upcoming opportunities to get ... Read more

Bailing Out the Financiers

Airs at: Thu, 10/02/2008 at 1:39pm
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Why this financial crisis?  Is it real?  Mark Engler is a financial analyst with Foreign Policy in Focus and frequent contributor to several publications.  He talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about where things stand and how they got there.  Engler is the author of... Read more

Rural Organizing for Immigrant Rights

Airs at: Tue, 09/30/2008 at 5:00pm
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Two  regressive ballot measures will  be voted on in November, measures that target immigrants.   The Rural Organizing Project is working to defeat them.  Marci Westerling talks with the Old Mole's Denise Morris.  See their website for  all the details.  Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 29, 2008

Airs at: Tue, 09/30/2008 at 5:00pm
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This program has a current take on the financial bailout, a conversation about the positive vision of Fair Trade, and a visit with local activists campaigning against regressive anti-immigrant ballot measures.  The whole show is available by clicking on the arrow above (... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 09/29/08

Airs at: Mon, 09/29/2008 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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On the Old Mole Variety Hour, we ask whether the financial collapse and the government bailout spells the end of  conservative economics.  Bill Resnick talks with Mark Engler, author of How to Rule the World: The Battle For the Global Economy (available as a gift for cal... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 09/22/08

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2008 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Get the Moles’ underground  analysis  of the current financial crisis as Bill Resnick  interviews John Miller from the Union of Radical Political Economists (URPE), and Tom Becker  reads from The  Nation’s William Greider.  Also on the show, Jan Haaken will be talking wi... Read more

Financial Meltdown: Why, and What's Next?

Airs at: Sun, 09/21/2008 at 5:00pm
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Economist John Miller, who writes for Dollars & Sense and teaches at  Wheaton College, talks  with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the  current financial crisis, where it's heading, and what  progressives should be demanding.  Read more

Book Mole: "The Great Man"

Airs at: Sun, 09/21/2008 at 5:00pm
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Larry Bowlden discusses Kate Christensen's novel  The Great Man, demonstrating the gap between the image a successful man projects to his public and in his biography,  and what the women in his life know about him.  Winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award.  You can find more re... Read more

Sarah Palin and the Christian Right

Airs at: Sun, 09/21/2008 at 5:00pm
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The Old Mole's Jan Haaken talks with Professor Cynthia  Burack of Ohio State about the Sarah Palin phenomenon and its impact  on  the Christian Right  and beyond.  Read more

Greider on Bailing Out Big Finance

Airs at: Sun, 09/21/2008 at 5:00pm
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Tom Becker reads  from two pieces on the bailout of  finance capital by the tax payers by William Greider, economic analyst for The Nation.   You can find the  original  articles here and here.  Read more