Portland's teachers recently won a contract with the School Board enabling
them to turn more of their attention to their work. Two leaders of the
Portland Association of Teachers Gwen Sullivan and Elizabeth Thiel talk
with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how this cam...
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Could there be a store where everything is free? Why must every exchange be
a commercial one? To question the idea that you never get anything for
nothing, The Portland Free Store has been established. Its founder Karen
Carr talks here with the Old Mole's Joe Clement...
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The Old Mole's Left and the Law team of Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken discuss
the recent court ruling that California's death penalty is unconstitutional.
They look at the grounds for the decision, how widely it might apply, and
what it means for the future of the anti-c...
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Reproductive Justice was the theme of a summer youth camp held here in
Portland by Momentum Allliance. Jan Haaken talks here with Carla Castañeda
and Perla Álvarez, who participated in the camp, about what they learned.
(Photo taken in the KBOO studio during this discu...
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Frann Michel hosts this Bastille day episode, and we hear these segments:
Bill Resnick and Norm Diamond discuss worker-cooperative businesses and their
significance for the left. Do they prefigure the democratic production of
socialism and empower participants? Or...
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Jan Haaken talks with Kate Raphael about the Supreme Court's decisions on
reproductive rights, including McCullen v Coakley striking down no-protest
buffer zones around reproductive health care clinics that provide abortions,
on which Raphael recently commented for the W...
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Bill Resnick and Norm Diamond discuss worker-cooperative businesses and their
significance for the left. Do they prefigure the democratic production of
socialism and empower participants? Or are they fragile small businesses that
either become as cutthroat as other capit...
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In recognition of 14 July, Frann Michel comments on Bastille Day, the holiday
commemorating the French Revolution of 1789. You can read her comments, with
links, here.
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This episode is hosted by Frann Michel, and explores debates over left
strategies. The show includes some musical selections from Bitch Magazine's
mixtape of American Protest Music, and the individual segments linked below:
Bill Resnick and Norm Diamond discuss left persp...
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