Civil Liberties

Movie Moles on Fruitvale Station

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Movie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discuss Fruitvale Station, the dramatization of Oscar Grant's killing by Bay Area Rapid Transit guard Johannes Mehserle on New Years Eve 2008. They discuss some of the complexities of fictional films about real events, and suggest th... Read more

Positively Revolting

Airs at: Fri, 08/16/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Positively Revolting

Ani and Lyn strike out to smash the patriarchy once again. Read more

News You're Not Supposed to Know

Airs at: Thu, 08/15/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Presswatch

Presswatch

Airs at: Fri, 08/16/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Presswatch

Host Theresa Mitchell discuss abortion, abortion protesting and aborthion rights Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 12, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts this episode and we learn about the political influence of utopian and dystopian literature, the deceptions and crimes of the national security state, and what it means for anarchists to organize. To hear the show in its entirety, use the play button below... Read more

Beware of Cold War Thinking in the War on Terror

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

The national security state asks the citizens to trust it when it declares a terror alert: is this to divert our attention from the real threat to freedom posed by the state itself? J. P. Sottile suggest that it is in this article from Counterpunch, read for us here by Tom... Read more

Crimes of Obama and the Liberal Response

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Establishment liberals have been mostly silent as President Obama has expanded the national security state for which liberals castigated his predecessor George W. Bush. In this article, published on Al Jazeera and read here by Joe Clement, Deepa Kumar demonstrates the crim... Read more

APA Compass: Bobby Caina Calvan on the Asiana 214 Racist Hoax

Airs at: Fri, 08/02/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: APA Compass

Bobby Caina Calvan describes how multiple news outlets were taken in by a racist hoax following the crash of Asiana flight 214, and how similar mistakes could be avoided in the future. Read the article "Having more diverse newsrooms won’t always prevent errors like KTVU’s,... Read more

APA Compass: Asawin Suebsaeng on the Boston marathon bombing media misidentification

Airs at: Fri, 08/02/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: APA Compass

Asawin Suebsaeng reports on how both new and traditional media misidentified a missing Brown University student, Sunil Tripathi, as the Boston marathon bombing suspect. Read the Mother Jones article.Interviewed and produced by Andrew Yeh. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour August 5th 2013

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and hear:Bill Resnick talks with Peter Bratsis about human nature caught between self-interest and democracyIven Hale reflects on the origins and legacy of political slogan "the personal is political."Joe talks with Jeff Shantz about Especifi... Read more