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Movie Moles: "Inception"

Airs at: Mon, 07/19/2010 at 12:00am
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Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is about a plot to remake a mind -- but do the film makers give viewers' minds enough to go on?  Our Movie Moles Denise Morris and Wendy Webb ask whether this film is up to its appointed task.    Read more

July 19 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 07/19/2010 at 12:00am
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Hosted by Frann Michel (pictured here), this program is about climate change, science fiction, and science fiction about climate change, but it is not about the illusion that climate change is itself science fiction.  This is a show that should be heard from beginning to... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 12th

Airs at: Mon, 07/12/2010 at 12:00am
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Today's show ran the gamut from water conservation to oily devastation to the double-edge of postmodern autonomy, with a final romp by our Movie Moles through the Ozarks. Our host, Clayton Morgareidge, selected some bluegrass music to accent the plight of those who just ... Read more

Autonomism Explained

Airs at: Mon, 07/12/2010 at 12:00am
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When Marx was writing his grim analyses of Capitalism 150 years ago, workers did not have much if any autonomy. The labor movement gave workers the leverage to determine some of the terms of their livelihood, and since the 1970s progressive management theory has given mo... Read more

Movie Moles: Winter's Bone

Airs at: Mon, 07/12/2010 at 12:00am
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Our Movie Moles, Jan Haaken and Brooke Jacobson, talk about hillbilly stereotypes, meth culture and gender in a very recent coming-of-age crime-thriller, "Winter's Bone," Directed by Deborah Granik. Read more

Heart of Dryness

Airs at: Mon, 07/12/2010 at 12:00am
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Bill interviews James Workman - author of "Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushman Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanant Drought" - about fostering community through water-conservation, but specifically as he learned it studying African aborigines. Read more

Developments in the Gulf

Airs at: Mon, 07/12/2010 at 12:00am
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Jan Haaken interviews environmental engineer and former guest, Richard Heymann, about the changing situation in the gulf and what makes this spill and how it's being handled different from others. Read more

The Great Recession in Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 07/05/2010 at 12:00am
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Bill Resick talks with Chuck Sheketoff of the Oregon Center for Public Policy about the great recession in Oregon and the looming cuts in social services.  What can and should be done?  Sheketoff is one of the founders of the OCPP where you can keep up with state issues ... Read more

Understanding the Great Recession

Airs at: Mon, 07/05/2010 at 12:00am
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 What are the most fundamental causes of the current economic crisis?  Radical anthropologist David Harvey provides a lucid account of how this crisis and others are the result of  capitalism’s inevitable compulsion to expand itself into a state of collapse, and argues t... Read more

Movie Moles: "Toy Story 3"

Airs at: Mon, 07/05/2010 at 12:00am
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 Movie Moles Frann Michel and Jan Haaken give you the real and radical viewing of Toy Story 3: it's about the great recession, the fear of unemployment, and the fear of being tossed in the dump when you're no longer new.  It even shows the way forward towards a world of ... Read more