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Tom Becker hosts today's program which includes: Reform and Revolution: An interview with Michael Hirsh on reform vs. revolution Labor and the Green New Deal: A reading from the Jacobin website entitled "Organizing to Win a Green New Deal." The Anthropocene: A reading f... Read more

Bill Resnick speaks with labor journalist Michael Hirsch about working within reform movements toward revolutionary ends. Hirsch writes about labor and politics and is a member of the editorial board of New Politics.   Graphic courtesy of Nation of Change. Read more

Clayton Morgareidge reads excerpts from Jane McAlevey’s piece on the Jacobin Magazine website, “Organizing to Win a Green New Deal.” It shows how the role of labor is essential to the climate struggle. Jane McAlvey has been an organizer and negotiator in the labor moveme... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with John Talberth of the Center for Sustainable Economy about saving forests, reclaiming forests, and stopping cataclysmic global warming.  Talberth has spent years mapping the remaining extent of ancient forests in the Pacific Northwest and Southw... Read more

  resources:  Self-care checklist Mental Health Resources Scroll down for audio & text I’ve been thinking lately of our current era as the not-so-great depression.  The one back in the 1930s?  That was Great. That was a Great Depression. And there were great protests,... Read more

  Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker  consider the Mueller Report and provide a midterm assessment of Trump and the courts. (Spoiler alert! He has been doing very badly, but appointing lots of judges.) Public domain official portrait of DJT via wikimedia and photoshop.   Read more

  Denise Morris Hosts this Episode of the Old Mole which includes Bill Resnick talks with Portland students who helped organize last Friday’s (March 15) Student Climate Strike. In Part One, we hear from Solomon Duke, senior at Franklin High.  He is a founder of the Por... Read more

  For the Old Mole 3/18/19 Jan: What is Democracy? directed by philosopher filmmaker and activist Astra Taylor answers the question in the film's title through an expository style,  an approach to documentary that uses interviews and images to build an argument. The ar... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with local students who helped organize last Friday’s (March 15) Student Climate Strike here in Portland. In Part One, we hear from Solomon Duke, senior at Franklin High.  He is a founder of the Portland Youth Climate Council and one of the organizers ... Read more

  Larry Bowlden reviews Hyeonseo Lee’s The Girl With Seven Names, a memoir about the author's young life in North Korea, which she was taught to regard as the best and most prosperous country in the world. Almost by accident, she found herself in China and then began a ... Read more