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Movie Moles: About Haiti

Airs at: Mon, 01/25/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Two documentary films made in recent years about Haiti help us to understand the current crisis following the earthquake.   Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel discuss what can be learned from Aristide and the Endless Revolution and The Agronomist.  The second of these... Read more

OPEN LINES discussion on Supreme Court ruling regarding campaign finance limits and...

Airs at: Thu, 01/21/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
OPEN LINES discussion on Supreme Court ruling regarding campaign finance limits and other current issues on the top KBOO Listeners' minds....Join co-hosts Jo Ann Bowman and Dave Mazza every Thursday morning as they bring you informative guests and lively discussions about t... Read more

US Military's method of providing Haiti 'relief'

Airs at: Fri, 01/22/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
While most countries around the world have focused on sending search and rescue teams and doctors to Haiti, the US government’s response to the disaster has been to send military troops to secure the airport and nearby areas. Signal FM was the only radio station that remain... Read more

January 18, 2010 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 01/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Hosted by Bill Resnick, this show features music of the Great Depression, a discussion of what Obama has and has not done to create jobs, putting Haitian poverty in historical context, a conversation about how to save journalism (and what it needs to be saved from); and a ... Read more

Haiti: Disaster Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 01/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
It's time to stop talking about charity for Haiti and start talking about justice--about recovery, responsibility and fairness.  Frann Michel puts the Hatian disaster in historical context and demonstrates how " Haiti was made poor--by France, the United States, Great Brita... Read more

PressWatch: Haiti Katrina-ed?

Headlines:  Radio Havana Cubarhc.cuPort-au-Prince, January 20 (RHC)-- Haiti was hit with a powerful new earthquake just a little over a week after the initial quake that killed tens of thousands of people. The latest earthquake hit shortly after six a.m. Wednesday morning, ... Read more

PressWatch: Haiti Katrina-ed?

Airs at: Thu, 01/21/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
How doesd the US relief effort compare to historic examples?  Why is the US Military diverting aid flights? Read more

Clifford Walker

Airs at: Wed, 01/20/2010 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
Clifford Walker has been asking for several years "why don't we remove the symbols of racial oppression from our currency?". "I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery." - Marquis de L... Read more

The History of Haiti and its subordination by Colonial Powers, like the good ol' US of A

Airs at: Tue, 01/19/2010 at 12:00am
 Abe and Joe take a brief tour through the bloody history of Haiti, and discuss the obligations that the developed world has -- or should have -- toward the undeveloped world. The calamity in Haiti has made one thing abundantly clear -- when a nation has been at the busin... Read more

Haiti: Disaster: Capitalism

A briefer audio version of this was broadcast on the Old Mole Variety Hour January 18, 2010. The Well-read Red has been reading up on Haiti. As many in the progressive press have noted, last week's earthquake was a natural disaster made much more disastrous by the politic... Read more