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 In 2002, David Scheweickart, a professor of philosophy at Loyola University, published a small and very readable book called After Capitalism.   It was a thorough critique of capitalism as a system for organizing our productive labor and the wealth it produces, and also an... Read more

What are the political possibilities made available by the fact that we are now all cyborgs -- hybrids of the organic and the machine?  Well-read Red Frann Michel reads from Donna Harraway's  classic socialist-feminist article "A Cyborg Manifesto."    If you search for the ... Read more

On the next Old Mole, Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Jane Collins, a professor of sociology and women studies at University of Wisconsin. They discuss welfare since Bill Clinton's famous "reform" act of 1996 and working in the low-wage market. S... Read more

Last week Bill and Tom talked about sex-abuse in the Church, resistance to dealing with it by leadership. When Bill asks Tom what he'd do if he was Pope, Tom says he'd get rid of the monarchial form of the Church. Tom describes the way that the monarchies of the past constr... Read more

 Bill and Jane talk about the relationship between welfare and the working-poor, paying special attention to working-mothers in Jane's research. Jane says she and her colleagues have wanted to know how the relationship between government, families and business has changed t... Read more

Joe talks with Jessica Chanay of Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon about the food-stamps program, its importance for recipients and society at large, and what it would mean if we applied 1996 Welfare Reform type cuts to it, as current legislators want to.   Read more

 Joe reads from Joshua Holland's July 1st Alternet essay about the over-blown importance of what 18th Century men might think about our world today. Read more

 Van Jones reclaim the American Dream movement kicks off tomorrow. Denise and Mark Brenner - the director Labor Notes - talk about the struggle the labor movement has ha d engaging American working-class history. Mark and Denise emphasize that the labor-movement doesn't hav... Read more

Joe Clement hosts and we hear:   1. Bill Resnick conclude his talk with Thomas Doyle about Church Sex-Abuse and revolutionizing the Church. 2. Bill talks with Jane Collins about welfare and the working-poor. 3. Joe talks with Jessica Chanay about the threat facing food-stamp... Read more

  On the next Old Mole, Tom Becker hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick interviews Thomas Doyle, a Catholic priest of the Domincan order who spoke out against sex-abuse in the Church and how it handled it long before the mainstream press picked it up. They consider the rece... Read more