Old Mole Variety Hour

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KBOO
Air date: 
Mon, 09/10/2012 - 12:00am
Sugar Man, living without wage labor, European austerity, and a radical historian

 

Tom Becker hosts this show about the search for a vanished but popular musician, living shamelessly on public assistance, the demise of the European welfare state, and remembering a radical historian and activist. 

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1.  Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Alan Wieder discuss the current film "Looking for Sugar Man."

2.  Joe Clement reads from Peter Frase's article defending the right to live without working for wages.

3.  Leo Panitch talks with Bill Resnick about the growing wealth divide in Europe and making the poor pay more.  

4.  Tom eulogizes Alexander Saxton, novelist, activist, and radical historian.

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