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Unlike Water, Money Flows Up Hill

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Air Cascadia

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Tue, 03/05/2013

http://www.endtheoccupation.org/

So this squestration, eh? who'll cruise and who'll lose, you ask. Israel, it seems is going to come loout smelinglike cordite, I mean rose. Yes. Roses. But then thanks to AIPAC, Israel already gets so much weapons money that they can't tell which ways up. It's like being buried under an avalanche and you don't know which way to dig to get to the surface...? You don't recall anything like that ever happening to you?

15:36 minutes (14.29 MB)

Old Mole Variety Hour

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 03/04/2013

Hosted by Joe Clement, this show covers recent developments in Italian politics, experiences in public healthcare, challenges to voting rights laws in the Supreme Court, and why economic justice is an issue for LGBT activists.

54:21 minutes (31.1 MB)

Poverty Is a Queer Issue

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 03/04/2013

Radical LGBT activists see the fight for gay marriage as a distraction from the more important struggle for economic justice. Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis is one such activist -- a writer for A New Queer Agenda. Here he talks with the Old Mole's Denise Morris about how LGBT people are affected by economic injustice.

14:19 minutes (8.2 MB)

Voting Rights and the Supreme Court

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 03/04/2013

Justice Anthony Scalia has compared civil rights-era voting legislation to welfare entitlements, as if protecting the right to vote were a "government handout". Well Read Red Frann Michel looks into the challenge to this legislation that has now reached the Supreme Court.

7:56 minutes (4.54 MB)

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Being a Public Healthcare Worker

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Health

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 03/04/2013

in this personal account, Old Mole Iven Hale recounts some harrowing experiences as a community healthcare worker trying to help folks who are doubly challenged with both serious illness and poverty.

7:28 minutes (4.27 MB)

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Italian Politics

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Politics

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 03/04/2013

Politics in Italy has always been entertaining, with its frequently falling governments. In the most recent elections there, a real entertainer named Beppe Grillo ("Joe Cricket"), leading a new party with a rhetoric combining progressive and reactionary positions, leaped into the fray with surprising success. Steve Hellmen is a an expert on Italian politics, and he talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about Grillo and the Five Star Movement he leads.

20:43 minutes (11.86 MB)

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St. John's Residents try to save Sequoia Tree

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Evening News

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Thu, 02/21/2013

Three local women have taken a stand to protect an old Sequoia tree in Pier Park in St. John’s. Today, they stood in the way of chainsaws despite being threatened with arrest. They are calling for people to come to Pier Park again tomorrow to help support this action. KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg went to the park this morning and brings us this report:

3:51 minutes (3.52 MB)

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Arun Gandhi Interview

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Between Us

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Sun, 03/03/2013

Arun Gandhi is the fifth grandson of Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi. Since coming to the US in the 80s, Arun has been working to fulfil the legacy of his iconic grandfather. And whether it's helping people overcome violence against each other or violence against the Earth, he has been a tireless champion in the spirit of his grandfather. Don Merrill had the opportunity to speak with Arun Gandhi.

27:44 minutes (25.39 MB)

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Old Mole Variety Hour February 25, 2013

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 02/25/2013

Alan Wieder hosts this episode, featuring music from David Rovics as well as an interview with him, a discussion of the economics and politics of mass incarceration, a review of a recent comic novel, and a commentary on the ideology of austerity.

Bill Resnick talks with David Weiman about Mass Incarceration

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

54:16 minutes (24.84 MB)

Well-Read Red: Austerity is About Ideology, Not Economics

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 02/25/2013

Tom Becker shares Alex Himmelfarb's essay about The Trouble with Austerity: Cutting Is More About Ideology than Economics.

6:28 minutes (2.96 MB)

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David Rovics Interview

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 02/25/2013

Alan Wieder talks with local singer-songwriter-activist David Rovics about his work, about living in Oregon, where the police have killed more black men per capita than anywhere else, about releasing songs online for free download, and about his new online book Have Guitar Will Travel.

16:59 minutes (7.77 MB)

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Book Mole: Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

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Culture/Arts

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 02/25/2013

Larry Bowlden reviews the novel Where'd You Go Bernadette? by Maria Semple , and finds the young narrator's story of life with her professional-class parents, and her mother's disappearance, very funny and engaging.

6:00 minutes (2.75 MB)

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David Weiman on Mass Incarceration

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 02/25/2013

Bill Resnick talks with economist David Weiman about the political forces encouraging the growth and maintaining of prisons and punitive policing in the USA. They consider not only media influence and legislators desire to keep jobs in their areas but also the fear-enhancing effects of social isolation and division and the correlation between inequality and incarceration. They discuss the impact of widely available guns and lobbying in support of gun rights. They consider the role of mental health professionals, the use of psychoactive drugs, and the likelihood that mental illness is a consequence of incarceration rather than a cause of crime.

18:19 minutes (8.39 MB)

Curtis Salgado Interview

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Between Us

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Fri, 03/01/2013

Curtis Salgado loves music and he loves Portland, Oregon. 　He's a bluesman, an R&B artist and a soul singer all rolled up into one. 　He was never in the gutter with a wine bottle in a paper bag. 　But he's been through it nonetheless, you know? 　And when he needed them, Portland went through it with him. 　He's alive to talk about it and he talks about it with Don Merrill.