May 24 Old Mole Variety Hour

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Program::

Air date:

Mon, 05/24/2010 - 12:00am

Immigration, Robin Hood, Mississippi in 1963, and Brazilian music under tyranny

This show is hosted by Bill Resnick and features the Movie Moles, Frann Michel and Denise Morris, skewering "Robin Hood," Book Mole Larry Bowlden finding much to admire in Minrose Gwin's new novel The Queen of Palmyra. Manuel Perez from the Institute for Policy Studies reviews the history and injustice of US immigration policies in relation to NAFTA, and radical musicologist Brad Duncan talks with Bill about the politics and music of the Tropicalia movement in 1960s Brazil.

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1. Manuel Perez and Bill Resnick on taking back the "great migration".

2. The Movie Moles on the new Robin Hood's backwards political economy.

3. The Queen of Palmyra, a novel about growing up in the segregated south, reviewed by Larry Bowlden.

4. Brad Duncan and Bill Resnick play music from the Tropicalia movement and talk about its politics.