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the contradictions of housing under capitalism (wrr)

For the Old Mole Variety Hour March 9, 2015 First, from a 1946 New International essay by Miriam Gould on "Profits and the Housing Crisis: Conflicting Interests of Banks, Industry and Real Estate": Way back in 1872, Frederick Engels made three generalizations about h... Read more

67--DESNOS' Mourning for Mourning--available for reading, performing, producing, etc.

Hi folks, The file for this was overwritten by error and so it only exists as the pdf file which I sent to the proofreader, with numbered lines which will help you find the two errors, should you be interested in picking any or all of these up. They are quite lovely, so do g... Read more

The American, open today (9/1/10) at many theaters

The American Director: Anton Corbijn With: George Clooney, Violante Placido, Paolo Bonacelli, Johan Leysen, Thekla Reuten First, the good things. The movie is beautiful, filmed mostly in Abruzzo hill country in Italy. George Clooney is in superb physical shape. That ... Read more

9/22 Jeff Halper Talk on Israel-Palestine

KBOO is proud to sponsor Jeff Halper's A Single Democratic State in Israel-Palestine: The Only Option Israel and the United States Have Left Us When: Saturday, September 22nd, 7:00 PM Where: Eliot Chapel at the First U... Read more

Press**Watch: return of the zombie 20th century

If you missed your favorite historical events in the Twentieth Century, you'll be thrilled to learn they're all coming back. Imperial wars? Check. Rampant and unrelieved racist oppression? Check. Economic Collapse? Yes, we have that too. Good thing we have global ... Read more

MLK's Legacy

Audio here. These days, everybody wants a piece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Last year, Glen Beck invoked King's legacy to promote his own rally, claiming the tea party was fighting the same fight as King. And last week, the general counsel of the Department of De... Read more

Rethinking the school-to-military pipeline

A version of this is part of the Old Mole Variety Hour for 25 May 2015 Today is Memorial Day, so we're talking about memory, and the military, as well as about education and labor. All of those institutions arose in their modern disciplinary forms in the 18th century, al... Read more

Wouldn't want to be rude

Apparently, the myriad violations of the Constitution carried out by the Bushies warrant an investigation. But criminal prosecutions? Convictions? We wouldn't want to be rude.From Salon.com:Aug. 4, 2008 | WASHINGTON -- On the campaign trail in April, Barack Obama was ask... Read more

Nothing has changed

Nothing Has Changed How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right. Black Hawk, Sauk "The white people who are trying to make us over into their image, they want us to be what they call assimilated, bri... Read more

5th Monday Labor Radio Election Special! 3rd Party Alternatives!

Checkout Voices in Action, Human Rights on Film! by NWFilm.org sponsored by KBOO and The Portland Alliance http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/humanrightsfilms http://laborradiocollective.blogspot.com/ On October 29, 2012, Fifth Monday Labor Radio on KBOO will have an hour lo... Read more