Bill Resnick talks with Barbara Miner about the neoliberalization of education generally and school-voucher programs in particular.  Barbara argues against even talking about "school choice" and defends her abolition of the phrase becaue of the way it obfuscates the abandonment of schools. They consider how the voucher-program will accentuate class divisions.

Barbara Miner has been a reporter, writer, and editor for almost forty years, writing for publications ranging from the New York Times to the Milwaukee Journal. The former managing editor of Rethinking Schools, and is the author of a "Lessons from the Heartland: a turbulent half-century of public education in an iconic american city".

 Alan Wieder hosts this Old Mole and we hear:

• Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair about NBA player Jeffrey Collins and coming out
• Joe Clement and Frann Michel review the worker-owned co-op documentary "Shift Change"
• Bill Resnick talks with Barbara Miner, former editor of ReThinking Schools, about voucher-programs
• Iven Hale reads two criticalreflections on Eve Ensler and the globalization of The Vagina Monologues

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Monroe Sweetland's long career in labor organizing and progressive politics provides a tour through Oregon and American history since 1930.  Here Sweetland's biographer, William Robbins talks with the Old Mole's Laurie Mercier about Sweetland, and about the Pacific Northwest Labor History Conference coming up May 4-5 here in Portland.  

Two songs from Richie Havens and Nina Simone make a powerful statement of the kind of freedom that does not fit the "free market" -- according to this commentary from Old Mole Clayton Morgareidge.