Tom Becker reads from an article on Truth Dig by Chris Hedges, "The Myth of Human Progress". Hedges predicts massive starvation and misery await us this century if we do not stop climate change, and isolates a certain myth of progress that stymies that action.

Jan Haaken talks with Mary Liz Thomson, the director of Who Bombed Judi Bari?. Judi Bari was an environmental activist, labor organizer and feminist who helped to bridge crucial gaps between how timber workers and radical environmentalists understood each other. She also helped to feminize either side's understanding of their own interests. Bari worked with the Industrial Workers of the World, a revolutionary union with a famous past among timber workers, and EarthFirst! They talk about Judi Bari, the significance of her involvement in EarthFirst! and what it meant for the kind of direct actions they did, and the FBI's strange case against her for having a bomb go off in her own car.

Larry Bowlden reviews Cory Taylor's new novel about "feeling old when you're not, and acting young when you're not."  It's called Me and Mr. Booker, and it's told in the voice of the lead character -- "a strong and mostly lucid voice."  More of Larry's reviews can be found here.

 The 23d Cascade Festival of African Films is going on this month at PCC's Cascade Campus, through March 2.  P.C. Peri and the Old Mole's Jan Haaken have their annual conversation previewing the festival's films and the Festival's purpose --seeing Africa through African eyes.  Admission is free.  For more info about attending, visit the Festival's website.