Bill Resnick talks with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein, Professor of
History at the University of California Santa Barbara and author of The
Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business and
editor of Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Cen...
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Alan Wieder hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear:
Alan call for a rethinking of Thanksgiving and what we teach our children
about it
Bill Resnick talks with Stephen Zunes about Palestine and Israel
Larry Bowlden reviews Charity Shumway's "10 Girls to W...
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Joe Clement remarks briefly on the massively coordinated strikes in Europe
and comments on their meaning. He quotes or mentions material from
Counterfire.org, Libcom.org, The Christian Science Monitor and the Wall
Street Journal.
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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...
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The Old Mole's Iven Hale talks with postal worker Willie Groschelle of the
Letter Carriers' Union about value of the US Postal Service and the forces
of privatization that are threatening to destroy it.
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Bill Resnick, Alan Wieder and Frann Michel talk about the political economy
of electoral politics and what that means for left strategy. They keep coming
back to popular mobilization and how electoral politics may or may not fit
into that.
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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...
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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 ...
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