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Old Mole Variety Hour on 07/04/11

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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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.... Read more

Thomas Doyle Part Two: Radically Changing The Church

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
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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 con... Read more

Jane Collins: welfare and the working-poor

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
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 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 change... Read more

Food-Stamps: an effective program that we can't afford to cut

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
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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

This Fourth of July, Let's Forget What The Founders Would Think

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
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 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

Denise Morris and Mark Brenner: We Can Do Better Than The American Dream

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
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 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 ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 4th

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
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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-stam... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 06/27/11

Airs at: Mon, 06/27/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  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 re... Read more

Twisted American Exceptionalism Leads to Criminal Behavior on a Global Scale

Airs at: Mon, 06/27/2011 at 12:00am
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When we anthropomorphize nation-states and endow them with unmitigated self-expression we have a succinct definition of American exceptionalism, which is one part nationalism and another chauvanistic individualism. Tom Becker reads an article from Alter-Net that explores... Read more

Thomas Doyle, Dominican Priest on Sex Abuse Cover-Up Since '60s

Airs at: Mon, 06/27/2011 at 12:00am
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Recently a report by US Catholic Bishops charges the 1960s with corrupting priests - among other things, because of promoting sexual freedom. Thomas Doyle, a Catholic Priest rejects this, pointing out it was a global problem, and relates his experience within the Church ... Read more