Frann Michel hosts this Memorial Day episode, which features music by Bob
Marley, "War"; The Clash, "Washington Bullets"; and Curtis Mayfield, "We
Got to have Peace"; as well as these segments:
Jan Haaken talks with Jacob Reisberg about Standing Rock Legal Defense
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Jan Haaken talks with Jacob Reisberg, an attorney who just returned to
Portland after doing legal work in North Dakota in alliance with the Water
Protector Legal Collective and the Freshet Collective for activists arrested
in the No DAPL actions at Standing Rock. They...
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Bill Resnick talks with the editor of Foreign Policy in Focus, blogger,
writer, and author of the novel Splinterlands, John Feffer, about his
nightmare of the breakdown of the world system in the next half-century.
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Denise Morris hosts this membership drive episode of the Old Mole, which
includes Joe Clement on Banjo and
Brian Tokar talking with Bill Resnick about municipal assemblies;
Huy Ong of OPAL talking with Desiree Hellegers about Protesting Trimet
Policing;
Rachel Hanes ...
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Bill Resnick and Brian Tokar discuss Municipalism and how to combine
electoral politics with grass roots movement building to support a radical
political turn. Brian Tokar is an activist, author, and a lecturer in
Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. H...
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Desiree Hellegers talks with Huy Ong of OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon
about the shooting of Terrell Johnson and the upcoming Trimet meeting on the
transit police. Demands include these: Disarm transit police officers!, Stop
the sweeps!, Place a moratorium on fare ...
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Denise Morris interviews Rachel Hanes, Organizer of the May 20th Town Hall,
Death by a Thousand Cuts: A Public Education Funding Town Hall.. Rachel Hanes
is currently a second grade teacher and a former middle school special
education teacher in Portland Public School...
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Activist and writer Nick Buxton talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about
how the military and corporations are dealing with climate change --
recognizing its reality but protecting only their own interests. Buxton is
co-editor of The Secure and the Dispossessed: How ...
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The West Wing produced yet another scene of paranoia and incompetence last
week, this time around Trump's abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey. Jan
Haaken and Mike Snedeker talk about this most recent drama and what's at
stake for progressives as we mobilize in the ...
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A Gentleman in Moscow is a historical novel by Amor Towles; wonderful
descriptions of Moscow and incisive psychological analysis of his main
characters. It is a very emotionally intelligent book.
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