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Movie Moles Laurie Mercier and Jan Haaken discuss the classic 1954 film made against great odds because the film makers were black listed by the Hollywood establishment. According to Wikipedia,  The film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and polit... Read more

Movie Moles Laurie Mercier and Jan Haaken discuss the classic 1954 film made against great odds because the film makers were black-listed by the Hollywood establishment. According to Wikipedia,  The film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and polit... Read more

Host Norm Diamond talks with historian Raymond Caballero about Caballero's new book McCarthyism vs Clinton Jencks, as well as more about "Salt of the Earth," the film reviewed in the previous segment of today's show. Clinton Jencks was a decorated war hero who adopted as hi... Read more

Old Mole, library employee, and union member Joe Clement explains the ongoing struggle between  Multnomah County and temp and on-call workers who wish to join the union. You can support these workers by going to the County Board meeting at the Multnomah County Building, 501... Read more

Bill Resnick talks to Greg Smith, a radical teacher of teachers and curriculum writer, on teaching climate change and the current uprising of youth around the planet. They discuss how young people are being radicalized by their understanding of climate change and by their e... Read more

Norm Diamond is our host for this edition of the Old Mole and we hear-- 1. Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Laurie Mercier discuss the classic labor and feminist film "Salt of the Earth." 2. Historian Raymond Caballero talks with Norm Diamond about McCarthyism and union struggle... Read more

  Frann Michel hosts this Labor Day episode of the Old Mole,  in which Joe Clement talks with Marianne Garneau about strikes and politics of worker-power. Bill Resnick talks with Emma Lierley from Rainforest Action about forest destruction in Brazil, Indonesia, and elsewh... Read more

  Joe Clement talks with Marianne Garneau about strikes and the politics of worker-power. They consider how strikes have been tamed in the last 100 year by labor law and what that has meant for their usefulness in winning gains for workers. If strikes are still useful, wha... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Emma Rae Lierley of the Rainforest Action Network about the fires burning in the planet’s last remaining major rainforests in Brazil, Indonesia, and the Congo. Governments and agribusiness corporations like Cargill and financial interests like Blackr... Read more

  Climate activists preparing for direct action in September need to know their rights under the First Amendment. But what are those rights and how do the fascists also enlist the First Amendment in defense of their hate campaigns? Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken talk about f... Read more