Old Mole Variety Hour June 23 2014

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Air date: 
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Chinese education system, 2 Reviews: Orange Is The New Black & Obvious Child, Communist Party event

Joe Clement hosts and we hear:
  • Bill Resnick talks with Yong Zhao of the University of Oregon. They compare and contrast the Chinese and US response to the failure of high-stakes testing and the neoliberal education paradigm.
  • Frann Michel and Iven Hale review the latest season of Orange is the New Black.
  • Joe talks with two communist organizers about a meeting at the Central Library on Monday the 23rd to form a new Communist Party of Cascadia.
  • Jan Haaken reviews the film Obvious Child - a widely acclaimed romantic comedy about navigating an unwanted pregnancy. Her co-reviewers are Shantae Johnson and Diego Hernandez of We Are BRAVE, a reproductive justice organizing project in Portland focused on women of color.
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