Old Mole Variety Hour for September 8, 2014

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Produced by: 
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Air date: 
Mon, 09/08/2014 - 12:00am
Policing, racism, the law, climate and agriculture, and working (and not working) on the clock.


Iven Hale hosts this edition of the Old Mole with a focus on the aftermath of the police killing of  Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.  Also on the show are pieces on agriculture and climate change and liberation from working on the clock.  It's all held together with Iven's interesting choices of music.  

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1.  Gary Younge of the Guardian and Laurie Mercier discuss the Ferguson protests and how racism structures power.

2.  Ecologist Catherine Badgley talks with Bill Resnick about farming and climate.

3.  On the Left and the Law, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker explore legal controls of police and their effect, if any.

4.  Joe Clement reads Chuck Allen's essay "Reclaiming Time on the Clock" about the hours we work.

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