Can the sense of solidarity and community that comes over us in response to a
flood or an earthquake be mobilized to respond to less obvious disasters --
like climate change, for example? Clayton Morgareidge looks for help in
Rebecca Solnit's book A Paradise Built in H...
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Remarking on Mother's Day, our Well-read Red Frann Michel considers what
mothers need from the commons -- from their fellow human beings with their
evolved hypersociality according to the slogan "One for all and all for one."
You can read Frann's remarks on her blog.
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Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show about hope in hard times, about the
opportunities given to us by the disastrous times we live in.
This show is part of KBOO's Spring Membership Drive, offering you the
opportunity to support the station that sustains the Old Mole, al...
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Frann Michel, The Well-read Red, explores some surprising connections among
volcanic eruptions, air travel, climate change, and the capitalist mode of
production. You can read her remarks by clicking here.
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Laurie Mercier speaks with Les Leopold, co-founder and director of The Labor
Institute, consultant to the Blue-Green Alliance, which brings together trade
unions and environmental organizations, and author most recently of the book
The Looting of America: How Wall Stree...
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Coal, oil, and nuclear power can be things of the past. Bill Resnick
talks with Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and
Environmental Research and author of Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap
for U.S. Energy Policy (2007), which is the first an...
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Novelist Ian McEwan is able "to display clearly how brilliant
accomplishment in one area of a life can be, and very often is, combined with
absurd ineptness (or worse) in other areas." Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden
discusses McEwan's new novel Solar about a man whose per...
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Hosted by Bill Resnick, this program deals with crime in the suites that goes
unpunished and crime in the streets that is punished if committed while being
black. We hear from a former federal finance regulator about the
snowballing malfeasance in the finance industry...
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Bill Black, a former bank regulator, has been writing about financial fraud
in high places at least sine the S&L scandal in the early '90s. His book
about that is The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One:
How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry. ...
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is the
title of a new book by longtime civil rights advocate and litigator,
Michelle Alexander. In this episode of the Old Mole's The Left and the Law,
attorney Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken sum up and di...
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