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KBOO
Program::
Air date:
Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:00am
Working for Walmart, border control check points, Mandela in the US, and prosecuting for torture
Tom Becker hosts this show dealing with several struggles for freedom and respect against forces of repression and exploitation.
To hear the whole show, click on the play button below. For individual segments, follow these links:
1. Walmart worker and organizer Martha Sellers talks with Bill Resnick about living with Walmart labor policies.
2. Sophie Smith and Old Mole Jan Haaken discuss the impact of border control check points miles north of the border.
3. Alan Wieder recalls Nelson Mandela's appearance at a town meeting in the US just after his release from prison.
4. On the Left and the Law, Mike and Jan discuss the growing case for prosecuting members of the Bush team for torture.
Program Note:
On January 12th the Old Mole Variety Hour will begin a monthly segment by Alan Wieder on legendary Chicago radio host and author Studs Terkel. Terkel was born in 1912 and died in 2008. He was on the air in Chicago for 45 years, wrote 17 books starting when he was in his late fifties, and lent his voice and his actions to political and social justice his entire life. He supported third party candidates beginning as a twelve year old in 1924, was black listed by McCarthy, and continued to speak publicly at union and political rallies till just a few weeks before he died. Our series will be thematic and will review his life and his work, a personification of progressive ideas and actions, and correspondingly, his facilitation of the voices of the underdog, or as he put it at different times, the uncelebrated, non-celebrated, or etcetera’s.
Starting January 12, this series will be aired on the second Monday of each month on the Old Mole Variety Hour.
To hear the whole show, click on the play button below. For individual segments, follow these links:
1. Walmart worker and organizer Martha Sellers talks with Bill Resnick about living with Walmart labor policies.
2. Sophie Smith and Old Mole Jan Haaken discuss the impact of border control check points miles north of the border.
3. Alan Wieder recalls Nelson Mandela's appearance at a town meeting in the US just after his release from prison.
4. On the Left and the Law, Mike and Jan discuss the growing case for prosecuting members of the Bush team for torture.
Program Note:
On January 12th the Old Mole Variety Hour will begin a monthly segment by Alan Wieder on legendary Chicago radio host and author Studs Terkel. Terkel was born in 1912 and died in 2008. He was on the air in Chicago for 45 years, wrote 17 books starting when he was in his late fifties, and lent his voice and his actions to political and social justice his entire life. He supported third party candidates beginning as a twelve year old in 1924, was black listed by McCarthy, and continued to speak publicly at union and political rallies till just a few weeks before he died. Our series will be thematic and will review his life and his work, a personification of progressive ideas and actions, and correspondingly, his facilitation of the voices of the underdog, or as he put it at different times, the uncelebrated, non-celebrated, or etcetera’s.
Starting January 12, this series will be aired on the second Monday of each month on the Old Mole Variety Hour.
- KBOO
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