Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Mole, which includes the following segments:
War and Climate Chaos: Laurie Mercier speaks with antiwar and climate activist Janet Weil, who discusses the Veterans for Peace Climate Crisis and Militarism Project. They also discuss why environmental movements have avoided including militarism as an urgent concern for stemming climate catastrophe, and how the US-supported Russia-Ukraine war and genocide in Gaza have generated massive emissions, toxic feedback loops, and permanent environmental destruction. What can we do to stop war to lessen climate catastrophe? You can read about the toxic dust drifting from Gaza into Israel in the Kucinich Report, and about the insanity of war during a climate crisis by Janet Weil.
Occupy Wall Street: An American Dream: Frann Michel talks with Michelle Fawcett, director of the documentary Occupy Wall Street: An American Dream (2025, 51 min.). A personal narrative with footage from travels to 42 occupations in 27 states, the film reveals the unseen diversity and development of the movement over the course of its first year. Laid-off factory workers in the Rust Belt, Indigenous activists in the Southwest fighting another kind of occupation, recent graduates saddled with debt and no jobs, and homeless veterans of America's forever wars kicked to the curb, the occupiers transformed their despair into hope by forging a new American Dream together on street corners all over the country. Along the way, they flipped the script from austerity to inequality, from reform to revolution, and from fear to power, heralding a new era in American politics.