Old Mole Variety Hour for December 29, 2014

Jan Haaken hosts this episode and we hear:

• In addition to music and spoken word pieces, Jan Haaken comments on the relationship between Kwanzaa's values and socialist struggle in Africa
• Bill Resnick talks Karen Connelly and Terra O'Neill about the progressive case for charter schools
• Iven Hale reads a commentary critical of gay marriage's conservative cultural effects by Yasmin Nair 
• Joe Clement reads a review of Sleep Dealer by Jason Read, who connects the sci-fi dystopia to elements of capitalist exploitation today.
• The Left and the Law review the 1961 film, Judgement at Nuremberg, in light of recent revelations about CIA torture.

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