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Old Mole Variety Hour for June 17, 2024

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2024/06/17

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, in celebration of Juneteenth and Pride Month. Our show includes the following segments: Dam Removal on the Klamath: Over the past decade, Tribal Nations have led a global movement for dam removal as a vital part of re...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for June 3, 2024

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2024/06/03

Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The San Onofre Syndrome: The Nuclear Free Team of the Sierra Club Grassroots Network is offering a series of three films to watch online without charge, with the second of the films av...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for May 27, 2024

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2024/05/27

Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole From Against the Grain, The Nation, Reconsidered hosted by C.S Soong "Is a world of nation-states desirable? If ultranationalism is pernicious, are some forms of nationalism beneficial? Should struggles framed in terms o...

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Left and the Law: Update on taking Big Oil to Court

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2024/05/20

In their Left & the Law segments on the Old Mole, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker regularly report on lawsuits against oil companies. Many of these cases are based on evidence of lies and deceit on the part of oil executives. They have known for decades that their products...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for May 20, 2024

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2024/05/20

Inconsistency, contradictions, hypocrisy, deceptions: This episode looks at how right-wing movements are exploiting notions of antisemitism, how ecosocialists and others have thought about capitalist growth on a finite planet, and how climate legal cases against big oil ...

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The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom

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2024/05/20

On May 1st the U.S. House passed legislation adopting a highly contested and broad definition of antisemitism that defines criticism of Israel or Zionism as antisemitic--legislation that holds important implications for what can be taught and what forms of speech or scho...

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Growth is not Sustainable

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2024/05/20

Joe Clement brings us some history of Green movement, with a review of debates over how to address the contradiction between environmental survivability and capitalist economic growth. In this archive segment, he reads from Black, White, and Green: Farmers Markets, Ra...

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How to Grow a Movement for Peace in the Middle East

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2024/05/13

How to Grow a Movement for Peace in the Middle East: Students at Portland State university are among the thousands of campus activists across the country mobilizing against US complicity in Israel's war on Gaza. On Monday April 29, Students United for Palestinian Rights (SU...

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The Tank Farm, a Disaster-in-Waiting

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2024/05/13

The Critical Energy Infrastructure hub, otherwise known as the tank farm, is a six mile stretch on the banks of the Willamette river where 90% of Oregon’s fuel is stored on seismically unstable land. A major earthquake is predicted to unleash fires, explosions, and toxic sp...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for May 13, 2024

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2024/05/13

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: How to Grow a Movement for Peace in the Middle East: Students at Portland State university are among the thousands of campus activists across the country mobilizing against US c...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for May 6, 2024

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2024/05/06

Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Contradictions of Immigration, Part Two: How is it that 1,000,000 undocumented immigrants from across the world entered the U.S. each year from starting in 2019 and filtered acr...

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The Trouble with "Genocide Joe"

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2024/05/06

A movement is growing to vote in Democratic primaries for “none of the above” or “uncommitted” as a strategy to put Joe Biden on notice that voters may abandon him next fall if he persists with his unconditional support for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. This strategy, if ...

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Indigenous and Palestinian Solidarity

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2024/05/06

“We need to dismantle settler colonialism in the United States. What Israel is doing to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank shows the world that settler colonialism only speaks the language of violence,” observes Diné (Navajo) Prof. Melanie Yazzie, in excerpts from a wid...

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The Contradictions of Immigration, Part Two

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2024/05/06

How is it that 1,000,000 undocumented immigrants from across the world entered the U.S. each year from starting in 2019 and filtered across the country, found work, and built stable lives in stable communities? That despite the increase in border police and physical barrier...

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The Contradictions of Immigration

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2024/04/29

For the last eight years, including the Trump’s years, the U.S Congress has been increasing appropriations for “Border Protection,” and still every year, on average, over one million undocumented people crossed into this country, getting work and settling down. How and why ...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for April 29, 2024

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2024/04/29

Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, beginning with a story from Portland's May Day past, followed by these segments: Campus Protest: For two decades, Palestinian rights activists have called for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. The aim of th...

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Campus Protest

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2024/04/29

For two decades, Palestinian rights activists have called for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. The aim of the BDS movement is to pressure Western companies and governments to stop funding and supporting Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and Isr...

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Solidarity

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2024/04/29

In 1980, in a stunning act of solidarity with progressive forces both in the U.S. and Central America, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, the ILWU, refused to load military supplies being shipped from the US government to El Salvador’s dictatorship. Their refu...

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CMarie Fuhrman: Hope in Your Hands

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2024/04/22

Selections from CMarie Fuhrman's April 5, 2023 talk at the Washington State University Visiting Writers Series, about the hopefulness of obliterating dams and replanting forest on the South Fork of the Salmon River. CMarie Fuhrman is an author and poet whose work is roo...

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Forest Defense

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2024/04/22

In this Earth Day segment of "Field Notes,” Sophie Smith speaks with Karen Coulter, director and co-founder of the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project (BMBP). The discussion explores the critical ecological role of the mature and old growth forests on public lands to the...

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