Tom Becker hosts this episode on documentaries, dictatorships, the Middle
East, and Marx. These are the individual segments:
Bill Resnick talks with Ismael Hossein-zadeh about events in the Middle
East.
Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss the new documentar...
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Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss the new documentary The
Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. The film opens in Portland next
week at the Hollywood theatre with a benefit event for the NAACP. Noting
the impossibility of fully addressing all the ma...
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This week we talk with Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing
Project, and Jason Ziedenberg, director of research and policy for the
Justice Policy Institute, about mass incarceration and a new report on
prisons in the US.
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This week we hear from John Walsh of the Washington Office on Latin America
and Professor Mark Kleiman from UCLA as they address a meeting of the UN
University on preparations for the 2016 UNGASS.
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Denise Morris hosts this membership drive episode of the Old Mole Variety
Hour, with segments on Social Security, historical fiction and reproductive
justice, and rights of workers in sexual services.
Bill Resnick talks with Eric Laursen about Social Security. This versio...
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Jan Haaken talks with Red, an activist and representative with SWOP USA--Sex
Workers Outreach Project. She is active with the Portland SWOP Chapter and
also director of the new program in Portland, STROLL: Sex Traders Radical
Outreach & Liberation Lobby. They talk about...
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Bill Resnick interviews Eric Laursen, author of The People’s Pension: The
War Against Social Security, from Reagan to Obama, available from AK Press.
They discuss how and why Social Security survived in the face of elite
attacks since its inception. Laursen is part of th...
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This week we hear more of that interview with Johann Hari, author of Chasing
The Scream, and also from Molly Gill, Government Affairs Counsel for Families
Against Mandatory Minimums.
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This week on Century Of Lies I talk with Michael Krawitz about international
drug policy reform as well as efforts to secure medical marijuana access for
our nation's veterans.
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Joe Clement reflects on Labor Day's radical roots. All too often pitted
against celebrations of International Workers Day, Labor Day was born of the
same international-tending workers movement that also gave birth to May Day.
To help tell this story, Joe reads from Eugen...
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