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Is Hell Other People?

Airs at: Mon, 11/09/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Jean-Paul Sartre's play "No Exit" is playing at Imago Theater, across the street  from KBOO, through November 15.  Here are Clayton Morgareidge's thoughts about what we can learn from it and it's famous line, "Hell is other people."  You can read the text of this  commentar... Read more

Queer Activism in Maine

Airs at: Mon, 11/09/2009 at 12:00am
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 Voters in Maine just repealed a law that legalized gay marriage -- but is that the issue LGBT people should be organizing around?  Maine queer activist Ryan Conrad says the marriage equality campaign is a distraction from improving the lives of gay people.  He tells why in... Read more

November 9 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 11/09/2009 at 12:00am
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 This Old Mole episode is hosted by Denise Morris (pictured here), and features discussions of how the system limits the actions of Presidents; two movies about mothers and sons; whether "Hell is other people" (as a  line in Sartre's play No Exit has it); and whether the ri... Read more

Who Really Runs This Country?

Airs at: Mon, 11/09/2009 at 12:00am
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What keeps us at war -- and without universal healthcare -- is not the moral  failings of politicians but the system within which politicians -- including presidents -- are forced to act.  That's the argument of  investigative journalist Russ Baker in this conversation with... Read more

Dams and Native Peoples

Airs at: Mon, 11/02/2009 at 12:00am
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 Tina Loo studies the impact of  hydropower projects on native people in Canada, and here she talks with the Old Mole's Laurie Mercier about how the techno-perspective of policy makers blinds them to the impacts of their projects on life in the areas where they are  located... Read more

Towards a Car-free City

Airs at: Mon, 11/02/2009 at 12:00am
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 How could our cities get rid of cars?  What would city life be like without them?  J.H. Crawford writes about these questions, and he talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about a future of car-free cities. Read more

Too Late for Privacy?

Airs at: Mon, 11/02/2009 at 12:00am
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 In this Well-read Red segment, Clayton Morgareidge reviews some of the  ways our digital activity is recorded and is increasingly being sorted and reviewed by both industry and government.  He asks whether  privacy is a lost cause, and if so, what kind of world would be sa... Read more

Obama and the Generals

Airs at: Mon, 11/02/2009 at 12:00am
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 President Obama is caught between his base wanting withdrawal from Afghanistan, and his generals, wanting escalation, according to this article in Rolling Stone by Robert Dreyfus, excerpted and discussed here by Bill Resnick.    Read more

November 2 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 11/02/2009 at 12:00am
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 This show, hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, raises questions about the impact of dams on native peoples in Canada; how to get automobiles out of our cities; Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help about black servants in Jackson, Missississippi in the '60s; is  it too late to prot... Read more

Book Mole: "The Help"

Airs at: Mon, 11/02/2009 at 12:00am
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 Kathryn Stockett's  new novel The Help is about a white southern writer trying to tell the stories  of black domestic servants in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s.   Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden wrestles with the problems this poses.   For an archive of Larry's reviews, go... Read more