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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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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 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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The Contradictions of Immigration, Part Two

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

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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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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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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The Contradictions of Immigration

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

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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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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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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Organizing with JVP-PDX

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2024/04/22

As the genocide in Gaza continues into its sixth month, activists and groups in solidarity with Palestinian freedom continue to organize for a cease-fire and an end to US military support for Israel. Journalist Kevin Foster talks with Zia Laboff, an organizer with Jewish...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for April 22, 2024

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2024/04/22

Defending forests, obliterating dams, replanting watershed, and organizing against genocide (that is also ecocide): Frann Michel hosts this Earth Day episode, which includes these segments: Forest Defense In this Earth Day segment of "Field Notes,” Sophie Smith speaks w...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for April 15, 2024

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2024/04/15

Denise Morris hosts this re-broadcast of “Lessons in Self-Managed Abortion” from the podcast Against the Grain. While the Supreme Court considers restricting abortion pills, feminists in the Global South have shown the way forward for safe abortions outside of the law. Sas...

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At the Intersections of Extraction, Militarism and...

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2024/04/08

Desiree Hellegers and Julian Ankney, Nimiipuu director of Native Programs at Washington State University Vancouver talk about WSU’s 5th annual SJCon social justice conference coming up on April 19 and 20, which is virtual, free, and open to the public. This year is focused ...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for April 8, 2024

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2024/04/08

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Libraries – Grammar Schools for the Commons: Joe Clement shares commentary and news on the political significance of libraries, examining the material context of social attacks ...

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Libraries as Grammar Schools of the Commons

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2024/04/08

Joe Clement shares commentary and news on the political significance of libraries, examining the material context of social attacks on them and the utopian potential of their sharing ethos. We hear audio from Mariame Kabe on the podcast Death Panel speaking to how librarie...

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International Uranium Film Festival

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2024/04/08

In its 13th year, the International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF), which is based in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, comes to Portland as part of its multi-city US tour. From Hiroshima, the Manhattan Project, Fukushima and everything in between, where Oppenheimer dared not go, these...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for April 1, 2024

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2024/04/01

Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: How I Learned to Breathe Through the Apocalypse: How I Learned to Breathe Through the Apocalypse is a serial play/web series written and performed by Desiree Hellegers, and directed and p...

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Don't be Fooled: Covid, the CDC, and Our Health

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2024/04/01

Four years into the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19/SARS-Cov-2, Long Covid continues disabling millions and the CDC continues to favor business interests over public health. Frann Michel encourages supporting each other in reducing infection. See also: Too Many Dea...

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How I Learned to Breathe Through the Apocalypse

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2024/04/01

How I Learned to Breathe Through the Apocalypse is a serial play/web series written and performed by Desiree Hellegers, and directed and produced by Hellegers, along with Derya Ruggles and Melissa Salazar for air on Open Signalpdx. This black comedy is modeled on Hellege...

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