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  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Libraries – Grammar Schools for the Commons: Joe Clement shares commentary and news on the political significance of libraries, examining the material context of social attacks ... Read more

In its 13th year, the International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF), which is based in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, comes to Portland as part of its multi-city US tour.  From Hiroshima, the Manhattan Project, Fukushima and everything in between, where Oppenheimer dared not go, these... Read more

Joe Clement shares commentary and news on the political significance of libraries, examining the material context of social attacks on them and the utopian potential of their sharing ethos.  We hear audio from Mariame Kaba on the podcast Death Panel speaking to how librarie... Read more

  Four years into the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19/SARS-Cov-2,  Long Covid continues disabling millions and the CDC continues to favor business interests over public health.   Frann Michel encourages supporting each other in reducing infection.    See also: Too Many Dea... Read more

  How I Learned to Breathe Through the Apocalypse is a serial play/web series written and performed by Desiree Hellegers, and directed and produced by Hellegers, along with Derya Ruggles and Melissa Salazar for air on Open Signalpdx. This black comedy is modeled on Hellege... Read more

Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: How I Learned to Breathe Through the Apocalypse: How I Learned to Breathe Through the Apocalypse is a serial play/web series written and performed by Desiree Hellegers, and directed and p... Read more

  Library Labor, Literature, Lawsuits, and Lies about taxes: Frann Michel hosts this episode which features these segments: Fort Vancouver Regional Library Workers Struggle Joe Clement shares news about the Fort Vancouver Regional Library workers struggle for a living wag... Read more

  Joe Clement reports on the struggle for a living wage at Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries (FVRL), connecting their issues to other library systems in the area and beyond. Show your support today today by signing the FVRL workers' petition. In the report, Joe reads from... Read more

  A four year old Mi'kmaq girl vanishes from a berry field in Maine. The Berry Pickers is a 2023 novel by Amanda Peters. It is both a historical novel and a mystery.  Larry Bowlden reviews.  Patricia Kullberg reads.   Image: cover of The Berry Pickers, a Novel, by Amanda ... Read more

  There are now 30 lawsuits against oil companies underway in cities and states around the US, including in California and here in the Pacific Northwest. Last year, a case was filed by  Multnomah County around damages from the 2021 heat wave and fires and a lawsuit was rec... Read more