On today's episode we welcome Nui Wilson, Frances Lu Pai Ippolito, and Gigi
Little, collaborators on the new picture book A Tree of My Own, from
Portland's Qlin Press.
Nui Wilson is the book’s author. She’s a Karen woman who was born and
raised in Western Thailand. She mov...
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Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the
following segments:
Climate and Justice: Just three weeks after the disappointing outcome at the
United Nations COP 29 (Conference of Parties) meetings in Azerbaijan,
the largest case in the histor...
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Just three weeks after the disappointing outcome at the United Nations COP
29 (Conference of Parties) meetings in Azerbaijan, the largest case in the
history of the International Court of Justice began this month with testimony
from Pacific Islanders about the threats of cl...
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Akikazu Nakamura is an internationally recognized musician. He’s been
introduced at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and has performed in
over 150 cities in more than 40 countries. He is the master of the
traditional Japanese flute. Akikazu plays it by using circul...
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Socialist City Councilors-elect Tiffany Koyama Lane, known as Teacher
Tiffany, and Mitch Green, a green energy economist, talk about their vision
for building working-class power in Portland, Oregon
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On Saturday October 5th, 2024, several thousand Portlanders gathered in
Unthank Park to commemorate a year of the ongoing Israeli invasion and
destruction of the Gaza Strip. The rally also called for an end to the
Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which began several weeks befor...
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Tessa Hulls' debut as an author is the sprawling graphic memoir Feeding
Ghosts, a story of her own family, of survival and madness and love, seen
through the lens of three generations of women and covering nearly a
century of Chinese history.
Tessa is an illustrator, pa...
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Jon Nelson hosts this Labor Day episode of the Old Mole, which includes the
following segments:
Lessons from Labor History: Laurie Mercier speaks with Mary Anne Trasciatti,
Director of Labor Studies and Professor of Rhetoric and Public Advocacy at
Hofstra University, a...
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Analogous to the term blackface, yellowface means to color your face yellow
in order to appear Asian. Metaphorically speaking, that’s exactly what
protagonist Juniper Song does in the 2023 novel by Rebecca Kuang titled
Yellowface. Book Mole Patricia Kullberg reviews this bi...
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On today's show, we welcome Suzy Vitello, author of the new novel Bitterroot
from Sibylline Press. Suzy’s published fiction includes the novel
Faultland and the young adult novels The Moment Before and The Empress
Chronicles series. Her award-winning short fiction and nonfi...
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