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Yasmin Nair beyond Illegal vs. Undocumented

Airs at: Mon, 11/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair about immigrants-rights rhetoric and how certain strategies meant to insulate them from stereotypes and "include" may shutter the actual situation of undocument workers. She argues that the "undocumented not afraid" movement started as a... Read more

WRR: The Opiate of American Exceptionalism

Airs at: Mon, 10/29/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from "The Opiate of Exceptionalism" by NY Times editorialist Scott Shane. It focuses on the myth of American exceptionalism as the reason why we can't get politicians to talk about inequality and injustice. Read more

Book Mole: Days of Destruction Days of Revolt

Airs at: Wed, 10/31/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale reviews "Days of Destruction Days of Revolt", by journalist Chris Hedges and Portland graphic-novelist, Joe Sacco. Read more

Zombie: apocalypse or rebellion?

Airs at: Wed, 10/31/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The zombie apocalypse is not a new cultural craze for Americans, but its recent resurgence during the Great Recession deserves some scrutiny for the way it invokes the lost figure of the zombie-worker. That's what David McNally (mis-announced as Daniel) argues in an article... Read more

Portland Action Lab: brewing up anti-austerity actions for November 3rd 2012

Airs at: Mon, 10/29/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Gina of the Portland Action Lab about anti-austerity actions that're being planned for November 3rd 2012. She describes the way that PAL and the groups who work with it are resisting austerity as "the new normal" and underscoring the hugely neglected ... Read more

Leo Panich on Leftist Strategy

Airs at: Mon, 10/29/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Leo Panich about strategies for the left . He argues that the economic institutions at the heart  of American state are under-appreciated tools of imperialism, more so than international institutions like the IMF and the World Bank. The latter are st... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 29th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 10/29/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale hosts this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear:   Bill Resnick talk with Marxist scholar Leo Panich about resisting global capitalism Joe Clement talks with Gina of the Portland Action Lab about November 3rd's planned anti-austerity protests... Read more

Movie Moles review Maquilapolis

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss the documentary Maquilapolis (2006), its collaborative production and innovative style, and its presentation of the struggles and modest triumphs of Tijuana factory workers and community environmental activists in the years since NAFTA. Read more

Open Reservoirs: Rochester receives reprieve while Portland plows ahead.

Airs at: Fri, 10/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 The city of Rochester, New York recently received a ten-year reprieve from compliance with federal regulations requiring the covering of their open reservoirs.  Rochester requested the delay from the EPA based on economic hardship, citing a forty four percent in... Read more

Oh Noes! Stephanie Coontz on "the end of men hypothesis"

Airs at: Mon, 10/15/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill Resnick talks with Stephanie Coontz about the "end of men hypothesis" that she argues conflates two trends: greater equality  and opportunity for women, on the one hand, and the all-around explosion of inequality in the USA that hits men particularly hard because of t... Read more