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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 aban... Read more

Iven Hale reads from different blog-posts on the Eve Ensler, famous producer of The Vagina Monologues. They are critical of the way that Eve represents other women's voices in her monologues and draw attention to the ways they advance colonialism within feminism. The fea... Read more

 Alan Wieder hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair about NBA player Jeffrey Collins and coming outJoe Clement and Frann Michel review the worker-owned co-op documentary "Shift Change"Bill Resnick talks with Barbara Miner, former editor of ... Read more

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 ... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this action packed show covering the situation in Syria, the Pacific Northwest Labor History Conference coming up in Portland, getting over and beyond consumerism as the basis for social life, and gun violence and gun legislation.   Read more

Monroe Sweetland's long career in labor organizing and progressive politics provides a tour through Oregon and American history since 1930.  Here Sweetland's biographer, William Robbins talks with the Old Mole's Laurie Mercier about Sweetland, and about the Pacific North... Read more

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. Read more

Two songs from Richie Havens and Nina Simone make a powerful statement of the kind of freedom that does not fit the "free market" -- according to this commentary from Old Mole Clayton Morgareidge. Read more

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 viole... Read more