Civil Rights/Human Rights

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Gareth Porter - Ep 65

Airs at: Thu, 05/28/2020 at 2:00pm - Thu, 06/11/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Fortress On A Hill
Gareth Porter stops by the podcast to discuss his long standing work on the Vietnam war, his thoughts on COVID-19 via the USS Theodore Roosevelt along with his previous work on the 1919 flu epidemic, the terrifying connections between Mike Pompeo and Bibi Netanyahu, and Isr... Read more

Presswatch on 05/28/20

Airs at: Thu, 05/28/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Why not call for a UN intervention versus White supremacy in the USA?   From Common Dreams:   In Minnesota, parts of Minneapolis erupted in flames Wednesday night as residents took to the streets for a second night to protest the death of George Floyd, a Black man kille... Read more

Buscando America on 05/26/20

Airs at: Tue, 05/26/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
  En este programa festejamos  el cumpleaños de Rosario Castellanos, con  El despojo y a Elena Poniatowska, con El recado. Escucha el comentario de Javier Sierra  sobre la pandemia y la construcción del muro del odio. En la sesión  numero 12 de Voces Ke luxan, Karen Torren... Read more

Food in the Tme of Covid

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with trained chef and journalist, Arun Gupta, about the American food system under conditions of the pandemic. They consider the plight of food workers up and down the supply chain, and the political economy behind the disconnect between the hungry masses ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 25, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 05/25/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Densie Morris Hosts this Episode of the Old Mole which includes Pandemic Bailout: Bill Resnick interviews economist Yeva Nersisyan. Yeva has recently been studying and writing on the Federal multi-trillion dollar relief programs as the pandemic shut down the economy. She... Read more

Striking Lessons

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Appearing at the Trouble Makers School in Portland before more than 200 union members, stewards and activists, Barbara Madeloni discussed the national picture for public pchool teachers organizing and how and why strikes work.  Madeloni is the Education Coordinator at Labo... Read more

What is Public Health?

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In our new Old Mole segment on Public Health and the Pandemic, Jan Haaken and Patricia Kullberg follow the race for a coronavirus vaccine and some of the misleading claims circulating in the media, and they discuss ways of looking at infectious diseases from public health v... Read more

Nursing the Commons

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks to Ted Levine a nurse in NYC, a rank and file activist and spokesperson for the nurses in NYC hospitals. They first point out that nurses have learned a great deal in the COVID crisis: For one that they are risking their lives in understaffed and under eq... Read more

Buscando America on 05/19/20

Airs at: Tue, 05/19/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
  En este programa festejamos a Juan Rulfo con fragmentos del cuento Talpa. También platicamos con Bárbara Sánchez Galeano de Detention Watch Network sobre las primeras personas que han perdido la vida en detención. Desde San Cristóbal, un reporte de Franco Torti  sobre el... Read more

Thinking Outside The Box

Airs at: Wed, 05/20/2020 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
The COVID crisis is having a particularly deadly impact within the criminal justice system. Unfortunately systems are slow to change, institutional inertia and the unwillingness of policymakers to do the right thing - quite literally a deadly combination. On this week's Cen... Read more