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Old Mole Variety Hour for February 10, 2025

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2025/02/10

Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode features segments on African films, on public schools in the the making of Black masculinity, and more. On the Legacy of PATCO 1981 In the aftermath of the midair crash over D.C on January 29, and Trump's racist response, Frann Mi...

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Uncovering Surveillance in Oregon

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2025/02/10

The ACLU of Oregon, in partnership with Don’t Shoot PDX, an arts and education organization that promotes social justice and civic participation, have submitted three public records requests to the City of Portland, the Oregon Department of Justice (ODOJ), and the Federa...

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On the Legacy of PATCO 1981

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/02/10

In the aftermath of the midair crash over D.C on January 29, and Trump's racist response, Frann Michel looks back at the 1981 strike by PATCO, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. This commentary considers the problems faced then and now by Air Traffic...

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Moussa Sène Absa at the Cascade Festival of African...

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2025/02/10

This is the 35th year of the Cascade Festival of African Films hosted by Portland Community College with screenings and discussions scheduled Thursday through Saturday throughout the month of February. Jan Haaken talks with the internationally acclaimed Senegalese filmm...

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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/02/03

Frann Michel recommends the documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, directed by Belgian media artist Johan Grimonprez, and available streaming through kanopy via the Multnomah County Library. The film opens with, and returns to, the moment in February 1961 when singer ...

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Whites Would Not Like the Real MLK

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2025/01/20

Our Well-Read Red, Patricia Kullberg, reads excerpts from an article by Michael Harriot in which he argues that the real Martin Luther King Jr. made White people uncomfortable and intended to do so. And if MLK were not white-washed, White folks wouldn’t like him today. The ...

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Resisting Google in the Gorge

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2025/01/13

Since the construction of a Google data center in The Dalles, Oregon in 2006, the city has become a magnet for data centers looking for tax breaks, and cheap energy and water to power and cool them. Beginning in 2021, with representation from the Reporters Committee for Fre...

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Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema

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2025/01/13

Eco-Disasters in Japanese Film. Japan has rich traditions of filmmaking and of approaching films as commentary on daily life. But Japanese cinema also offers rich commentary on ecological crises. Jan Haaken talks with University of Oregon professor Rachel DiNitto about her ...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for January 6, 2025

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2025/01/06

Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast from Against the Grain. How should we understand the relationship between capitalists, big and small, and the Republican and Democratic parties — especially in the wake of Trump’s return to power? Sa...

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Climate Change and the Law

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2024/12/30

On December 18th, Montana’s Supreme Court upheld a landmark ruling from a lower court last year. In the Held v Montana case, the Montana justices agreed that the state was violating residents’ constitutional right to a clean environment by permitting oil, gas and coal proje...

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Global Warming and the Crisis of Imagination

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2024/12/30

In his 2016 collection of three essays, novelist Amitav Ghosh takes up a question of immense importance: what explains humanity’s collective failure to avert the existential threat posed by climate change? Capitalism and colonialism are the great structural forces that keep...

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War and Climate Crisis in the Middle East

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2024/12/30

Laurie Mercier speaks with Dr. Zeinab Shuker, who is an assistant professor of sociology at Sam Houston State University and a fellow at the Century Foundation. Her research focuses on comparative global political economy and climate change, with special emphasis on the Mi...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for December 30, 2024

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2024/12/30

Patricia Kullberg hosts the final Old Mole broadcast of 2024, which includes the following segments: War and Climate Crisis in the Middle East: Laurie Mercier speaks with Dr. Zeinab Shuker, who is an assistant professor of sociology at Sam Houston State University and ...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for November 25, 2024

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2024/11/25

Nimiipuu Mole Julian Ankney hosts this decolonial Thanksgiving Show, which features the following segments: Beginning in grade school, American school children are steeped in the American mythology of Thanksgiving, cosplaying pilgrims and their Wampanoag hosts peacefully...

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The Palestine Exception

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2024/11/18

After years of right-wing assaults on higher education, attacks took a new form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism o...

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Little Sis on the Genocide Gentry

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2024/10/28

The Genocide Gentry Project exposes the executives and board members of major weapons companies who also hold prestigious and powerful positions at museums, cultural organizations, universities & hospitals - the deeply embedded power structure undergirding institutional ...

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Indigenous Food Sovereignty

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2024/10/14

In September, WSU Vancouver broke ground on two new campus gardens–one a student community garden, the other centering Indigenous Traditional Ecological Cultural Knowledge. Julian Ankney speaks with Lakota-Cheyenne activist Roben White about the role of the gardens in revit...

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Remembering Salmon Scam

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2024/10/14

In a continuation of the “Fish Wars” of the 1960s and 70s, a 1982 federal sting operation scapegoated and criminalized Columbia fisher people for diminishing salmon runs. This segment, which originally aired in May 2023, we feature commentary from Wanapum fishing rights act...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for August 19, 2024

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2024/08/19

As colleges and universities gear up for Fall term, in this week's episode of Old Mole Variety Hour, Desiree Hellegers hosts as we rebroadcast an episode on "Repressing Opposition to Israel" from KPFA/Pacifica's show Against the Grain. The April 17 show homes in on "U.S. hi...

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Paper Cranes

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2024/08/05

Hiroshima Day is commemorated around the world annually in honor of survivors of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 and Nagasaki three days later on August 9th. This day serves as a reminder of the ongoing threats of nuclear weapons and nuclear power as ...

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