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Capitalism's Enduring Use for Borders

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2025/08/11

Ivan Drury Zarin explains how borders serve to undermine worker solidarity under capitalism. This talk was part of an event held last month by Solidarity on the Origins & Problems of the Anti-Migrant Panic. That panel discussion was the culmination of a reading and d...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for July 21, 2025

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2025/07/21

The authoritarianism of the Trump regime calls out for mass radical organizing, but with some exceptions, much of the left has not mounted a coherent response. Journalist Arun Gupta reflects on lessons from the last quarter century – from the Global Justice Movement t...

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Marxism and Degrowth

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2025/07/14

Joe Clement talks with local activist and anarchist scholar, Paul Messersmith-Glavin about degrowth broadly and particularly in the work of Japanese Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito. Paul's review of Saito's book "Marx in the Anthropocene: toward the idea of degrowth comm...

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Documentary The Israeli by Jordan Karr-Morse

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2025/07/07

Filmmaker Jordan Karr-Morse talks with Frann Michel about his feature documentary-in-progress, The Israeli, about the remarkable ideological journey of prominent Israeli-American activist and author Miko Peled, from Zionist to Palestinian Rights Activist. There will ...

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International Law and Lawlessness in the Middle East

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2025/06/30

In the leadup to a United Nations conference in New York City to discuss Palestine and a two-state solution, the Trump administration discouraged governments around the world from attending. The conference was set to take place on June 17-20 but was postponed in early Ju...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for June 30, 2025

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2025/06/30

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which features the following segments: International Law and Lawlessness in the Middle East: In the leadup to a United Nations conference in New York City to discuss Palestine and a two-state solution, the Trump a...

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The Great Con of AI

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2025/06/30

Promoters of Artificial Intelligence claim that AI is going to usher in a new era of prosperity for all. Economist Mary Hart-Landsberg is skeptical. He argues that generative AI, like chatbots, have not only largely exhausted their potential, they pose numerous threats t...

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Dan Handelman Remembered

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2025/06/23

On June 28, Portland activists will gather at the Clinton Street Theater to honor the life and work of the founding member of Portland Peace and Justice Works/Portland Copwatch, an indefatigable organizer on a host of interconnected issues – war/militarism, police acc...

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No Straight Road

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2025/06/23

Patricia Kullberg reviews Rebecca Solnit's latest collection of essays, No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain. You can find the book at the Multnomah County Library. You can find more of Solnit's most recent writing at her site, Meditations in...

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Dan Handelman

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2025/06/23

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Old Mole Variety Hour for June 23, 2025

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2025/06/23

This episode explores American warmaking, remembers Dan Handelman, and reviews recent nonfiction. Old Mole episodes are prerecorded the week before airing. Frann Michel hosts, and we hear these segments: Big Tech and Big War: On June 13th, the US Army swore in four si...

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Truth Demands

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2025/06/23

Matt Witt reviews Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice, by lawyer, climate activist, and writer Abby Reyes. Twenty years after Abby Reyes's partner, Terence Unity Freitas, was assassinated in Colombia while working with the ind...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for June 9, 2025

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2025/06/09

The backlash against trans people, which has swept both the United States and the world in recent years, is not as new as it seems, according to historian Jules Gill-Peterson. She traces the emergence of trans misogynistic violence over the last two centuries, which ...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for May 26, 2025

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2025/05/26

On this week's show, hosted by Desiree Hellegers, we bring you: Genocide in Gaza: On May 2, 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concluded public hearings into what Israel’s obligations are regarding allowing United Nations agencies to work in the Palestinian ...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for May 19, 2025

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2025/05/19

Labor Internationalism, Malcolm Chaddock Remembered, Saving Social Security: Frann Michel hosts this episode, featuring these segments: Labor Internationalism: Laurie Mercier speaks to Dianne Feeley, a retired autoworker and editor of Against the Current, about UAW pr...

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Labor Internationalism

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2025/05/19

Laurie Mercier speaks to Dianne Feeley, a retired autoworker and editor of Against the Current, about UAW president Shawn Fain’s disappointing embrace of Trump’s tariffs and the need for labor internationalism to strengthen workers’ power in the U.S. and across border...

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Malcolm Chaddock In Memoriam

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2025/05/19

Desiree Hellegers speaks with long time Portland Veterans for Peace organizer Dan Shea, and we hear audio of VFP organizer Mike Hastie at Chaddock's April memorial service, as they reflect on the deep commitment to peace and justice that animated Chaddock's wide-rang...

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Copaganda

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2025/05/12

News media, public officials, and the police themselves keep telling us that public safety requires ever more policing, despite all evidence to the contrary. In Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News (New Press, 2025), civil rights lawyer Alec Karakat...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for April 21, 2025

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2025/04/21

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Assault on the Environment: One of the first executive orders issued by Trump in January was a Whitehouse paper titled "Unleashing American Energy." It promises to restore Am...

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Deportation Nation, Part One

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2025/04/21

Luisa Martinez pursues a wide-ranging discussion with immigration lawyer Daniel Kanstroom about the ideology, history and political economy of immigration in the United States. In part one, they take up the political economy of labor migration, the historical antecedents...

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