The Old Mole Variety Hour for May 23, 2016

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Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear these segments:

• Bill Resnick talks with Tarah Demant of Amnesty International about the surprising numbers on support for refugees in the United States.

• Frann Michel discusses the history of Vanport, the need for public housing, and the importance of solidarity rather than individualism in social provisioning.

• Desiree Hellegers shares field recordings she made in Anacortes, WA where dozens of activists were arrested for protesting fossil fuel recently.

• Joe reviews Finance Smurf. This is the last smurfs comic made by the originator, Pierre Culliford or "Peyo", and is a cautionary tale about the smurf village run as a money economy.

• Bill Resnick returns to read from Rebecca Solnit about the generosity of ordinary working people compared to the calculating tight-fistedness of elites.

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