Bill Resnick hosts this edition of the show which deals with the crisis in Gaza, a 1951 Sci-Fi movie about war and peace, and why the minimum wage needs raising in the current economic crisis. Resnick also plays music by Palestinian and Israeli musican exiles from the album Exile, a fusion of jazz and Middle Eastern music. Quoting from a review at KlezmerShack, "It is also disquieting, and will be especially disquieting to many given the current situation in Israel. To realize that the quiet, moving ballad, "Jenin" is a transposition of a Yiddish folk song about a Russian town in which a pogrom was carried about is not a quiet thing, especially in the light of recent history of Jenin (and myths about same)."
You can hear the whole Mole (which includes the music) by clicking on the arrow above. Or hear separate pieces (and find much more information) by following their links below:
1. Raising the Minimum Wage: an interview with Holly Sklar.
2. Uri Avineri's article "Molten Lead," read by Jan Haaken.
3. The Gaza Attacks: Jan Haaken talks with Portland peace activists.
4. "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (in 1951): Movie Moles review one that's old but good.
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