Bill Resnick talks with Barbara Miner about the neoliberalization of education generally and school-voucher programs in particular.  Barbara argues against even talking about "school choice" and defends her abolition of the phrase becaue of the way it obfuscates the abandonment of schools. They consider how the voucher-program will accentuate class divisions.

Barbara Miner has been a reporter, writer, and editor for almost forty years, writing for publications ranging from the New York Times to the Milwaukee Journal. The former managing editor of Rethinking Schools, and is the author of a "Lessons from the Heartland: a turbulent half-century of public education in an iconic american city".

Bill Resnick talks with Bruce Podobnik about climate change activism and his research into where people are engaging in it. He notes that protests are increasing globally, radical, and coordinated. They also talk about local, dispersed energy systems.

Bruce Podobnik is a sociology professor at Lewis and Clark College and author of the book "Global Energy Shifts: fostering sustainability in a turbulent age".

Rob Dietz, co-author with Dan O'Neill of Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resoures, talks with Old Mole Bill Resnick about building a political movement for moving beyond the pleasures of consumerism to other ways of enjoying life.

Drawing on personal and recent experiences of a fatal shooting and on her own background of owning and enjoying guns, Old Mole Iven Hale reflects on the ambiguities and contradictions in efforts to control guns and gun violence in a society that breeds and provokes violence in so many ways.