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 across the country, found work, and built stable lives in stable communities? That despite the increase in border police and physical barriers? How does this wave of immigrants compare to previous immigrants? Why are they so necessary in U.S. North American life? Bill Resnick interviews Larry Kleinman, for fifty years in Oregon fighting for immigrants, including co-founding and part of the leadership of PCUN, Oregon’s tree planters and farm workers union. After a successful generational transition, he splits his time in Woodburn consulting and working on projects and in Washington D. C. developing national immigrants’ rights policy and lobbying with the national Hispanic affairs organization, the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM).
The Trouble with "Genocide Joe": 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 carried into the presidential election in November, risks real world consequences, namely the election of Donald Trump, that would destroy what remains of democracy in the US. Fred Glass reads excerpts from his article: “Words and History: the Trouble with Genocide Joe,” published online April 14 in the Stansbury Forum. Fred Glass was the communications director for the California Federation of Teachers for nearly thirty years before retiring in 2017. He wrote and directed Golden Lands, Working Hands, a ten-part video series on the history of the California labor movement. His book, From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement, was published by the University of California Press in 2016. Fred is a member of AFT Local 2121 (retiree chapter) and serves on the State Committee of California DSA.
Indigenous and Palestinian Solidarity: “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 wide-ranging reading and talk entitled “Decolonization or Extinction: Reclaiming Our Humanity Through Our Love for the Earth.” Speaking at WSU Vancouver’s April conference on “Extraction, Militarism, and Climate Collapse,” Yazzie, co-host of the Red Power Hour podcast, reprises her November speech at the March on Washington for Palestine. And she reads excerpts from The Red Deal and Red Nation Rising, works that consolidate insights from more than 25 Indigenous organizers and intellectuals with The Red Nation media collective. Landback, she explains, is the “soundest environmental policy for a planet teetering on the brink of total ecological collapse.” This segment was produced by Desiree Hellegers.
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