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Movie Moles: Take Shelter

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2012 at 12:00am
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 Joe Clement and Frann Michel review the apocalyptic psycho-thriller Take Shelter, staring Michael Shannon as a blue-collared man in rural Ohio who becomes deeply disturbed by terrifying dreams involving mega-storms, attacks by dogs and neighbors, and even faceless intru... Read more

Resnick & Weinrub.whole

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2012 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick talks with Al Weinrub from the Local Clean Energy Alliance about the coming struggle to control wind and solar energy as the costs for producing the hardware come down. They discuss the differences, advantages and ultimate tension between centralized corpora... Read more

Book Mole: The Steal, a cultural history of shop-lifting

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2012 at 12:00am
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 Iven Hale reviews Rachel Schteir's "The Steal: a cultural history of shop-lifting". Schteir considers theivery across the ages, but especially in the modern era and in terms of sureptitiously lifting goods from stores and vendors. Iven remarks on the social forces that ... Read more

The Music and Future of Occupy

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2012 at 12:00am
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 Clayton Morgareidge talks with our radical musicologist, Brad Duncan, about the music and future of Occupy. As the cold months drive people indoors, the music helps keep the movement alive, but also as Brad points out by the end the re-surgence in small-scale printing a... Read more

We Are Oregon and Unsettle Portland

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2011 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick talks with Angela McWhinney, an organizer with We Are Oregon, and Terran Connolly, with Unsettle Portland. Earlier this month Angela and Terran's organizations helped stand up to foreclosures with homeowners. They articulate a vision of community control ove... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour December 26th

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2011 at 12:00am
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  Denise Morris hosts and we hear:  Bill Resnick interviews Angela McWinney and Terren Connolly. Well Read Read Clayton Morgareidge reads an essay about the new people power. Joe Clement interviews three members of the IWW about Music for the Working-Class ... Read more

Well-read Red: what's next for the new people power?

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2011 at 12:00am
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Clayton Morgareidge reads an essay from Yes Magazine by world-systems theorist, Immanuel Wallerstein, about "what's next for the new people power?" Wallerstein stresses the over-all success, from re-occupation to other direct actions, and for an understanding that this i... Read more

Music for the Working-Class turns One Year Old

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2011 at 12:00am
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 Joe Clement, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, talks with three other Wobblies - Noah, Tomás & Ash - about Music for the Working-Class, a labor-themed music event with scheduled performances and sing-alongs. It happens every last Wednesday of the month at... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 12/19/11

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Clayton Morgareidge will host this episode of the Mole, on which Laurie Mercier talks with Arun Gupta, a founding editor of The Indypendent, about the strategies and the future of the Occupy Movement. Gupta has visited over 30 Occupy sites in over 20 states. Along Wi... Read more

Working in the Food Industry

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2011 at 12:00am
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The system that puts food on our tables is broken and corrupt.  The Food Chain Workers’ Alliance is a coalition of worker-based organizations whose members plant, harvest, process, pack, transport, prepare, serve, and sell food.  In this conversation with director Joann ... Read more