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Movie Moles: Augustine

Airs at: Mon, 07/15/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel and Jan Haaken reviews Augustine, a new film written and directed by Alice Winocour. The film tells the semi-historical story of Augustine, a 19th Century French maid, who is struck with a neurological condition that gives her seizures, and how she is received ... Read more

Justice For Trayvon Martin Rally, Peninsula Park, Portland.

Airs at: Sun, 07/14/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Bread and Roses

The Portland Campaign to End the New Jim Crow called for a RALLY, SPEAKOUT & MARCH on Sunday, July 14, 4pm at Peninsula Park (N. Ainsworth & Albina). Justice for Trayvon! End Racist Killings! No Justice, No Peace! End the New Jim Crow!Delphine Criscenzo was on location.Pho... Read more

Between the Covers interview with Temple Grove author Scott Elliot

Airs at: Wed, 06/19/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Between The Covers

The Temple Grove means different things to differnet people. High up in the rain drenched Olympic Penninsula, it's a grove of trees as tall as skyscrapers and as old as nations. And until now it's been off limits to logging. To Paul Granger the Temple Grove is a sanctuary t... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 10, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 06/10/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear1. Bill Resnick talk with Alfredo López about the power of the internet for ordinary people and grass roots politics and its liability to corporate and state surveillance.2. Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Silvia ... Read more

Book Mole: "Swimming to Elba"

Airs at: Mon, 06/10/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews the Italian best seller Swimming to Elba by Silvia Avallone about the lives and friendship of two Italian girls who imagine escaping from their oppressive Italian coastal steel mill town. Larry says it's "a powerful book" informed by "th... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 3 June 2013

Airs at: Mon, 06/03/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Iven Hale hosts this episode, featuring a Left and the Law review of the latest edition of the psychiatric catalogue, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Bill Resnick talking with information activist Nancy Kranich about net neutrality and access to the internet, and a ... Read more

Movie Moles: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Airs at: Mon, 06/03/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Movie Moles Frann Michel and Jan Haaken discuss Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and the reluctance of many US reviewers to praise a compelling film that is critical of capitalism and the post-9/11 USA. Read more

Maya Angelou, "Mom & Me & Mom"

Airs at: Thu, 06/06/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

Legendary author Maya Angelou shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother in her new book, Mom & Me & Mom. Angelou's mother, Vivian Baxter, was an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence—a presence abs... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour May 27, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 05/27/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts and shares a reading on exporting fundamentalism; also we hear Gerald Markowitz with Bill Resnick on Biohazards; Iven Hale on the horror of the US incarceration system; and the movie moles Jan and Joe on The Great Gatsby.Resnick and Markowitz on Untested C... Read more

Movie Moles on The Great Gatsby

Airs at: Mon, 05/27/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Movie moles Jan Haaken and Joe Clement on The Great Gatsby, a film that has beautiful cinematography but lacks the original novel's complexity and critique of commodity culture. Read more