Old Mole Variety Hour

 

The Old Mole burrows down to the roots of the great issues of our time – the struggles of ordinary people for democratic and sustainable ways of life.  The Mole goes where corporate media fear to tread, supporting grassroots challenges to top-down authority and giving voice to movements that shake the foundations of an unjust society.  The Moles' perspective is democratic, broadly socialist, and feminist.  (We count Karl Marx as a friend).

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 Our theme "Mole in the Ground" is by Bascom Lamar Lunsford  (1924), somtimes blended with a newer versions, like the one  by dj/rupture, sung by Sindhu Zagoren.  It's on the album Special Gunpowder. 

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Bill Resnick
Clayton Morgareidge
Denise Morris
Frann Michel
Laurie Mercier
Tom Becker
Joe Clement
Larry Bowlden
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Episode Archive

Old Mole Variety Hour on 03/26/12

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Mon, 03/26/2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Students resist austerity in Greece, a satire about black revolution, and the bubble of ideology

 

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and it will include:

  • A report on student resistance to austerity measures in Greece;
  • A look back at "The Spook Who Sat At the Door," a 1973 satirical film about black revolution;
  • Commentary on the bourgeois bubble of ideology; and
  • A Bill Resnick interview: Andrew Riley of the center for Intercultural Organizing discusses what's ahead for health care reform: Obama Care, the Oregon Health Plan, and single payer.

 

Old Mole Variety Hour on 03/19/12

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Mon, 03/19/2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Military Psychology in Afghanistan; Oregon's new healthcare plan

 

Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which will include --

Old Mole Variety Hour on 03/12/12

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Mon, 03/12/2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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The Lorax, "Stealing" an education, and the Occupy Movement

 Denise Morris will be your host and 

  • Movie Moles Joe Clement and Iven Hale review The Lorax, based on the Dr. Seuss book.
  • Well-read Red Frann Michel comments on the "theft" of education by parents enrolling their kids in the wrong schools.
  • Clayton Morgareidge discusses what's ahead for the Occupy movement.
  • Bill Resnick interviews Mark Cooper about how financial speculation by the 1% drives up the price of gas.

Old Mole Variety Hour on 03/05/12

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Mon, 03/05/2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Splits in the GOP, Left and the Law, critique of business-unionism, movie-review: Tomboy

 

Joe Clement hosts the next Old Mole and we hear:

Old Mole Variety Hour on 02/27/12

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Mon, 02/27/2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Deserts and water, gender in old Dublin, and why faggots fear faggots

Bill Resnick will host this show on which

Old Mole Variety Hour on 02/20/12

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Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Demonizing Iran, electoral illusions, and African Films

Tom Becker will host this episode featuring

Old Mole Variety Hour on 02/13/12

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Mon, 02/13/2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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The spread of democratic institutions vs increasing privatization

Clayton Morgareidge will host this show, which includes --

Old Mole Variety Hour on 01/30/12

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Mon, 01/30/2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Confronting climate change at the local level; the movie "Capitalism is the Crisis"

 

Hosted by Laurie Mercier, this episode features

Old Mole Variety Hour on 01/23/12

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Mon, 01/23/2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Freedom Riders, the anti-abortion movement, and psychiatric fads

Denise Morris hosts the show today, featuring

Old Mole Variety Hour on 01/09/12

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Mon, 01/09/2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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instant runoff-voting, don't-ask-don't-tell, war with Iran, left press

Denise Morris host and we hear:

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Commentary: It's A Wonderful World

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Mon, 05/20/2013

Clayton Morgareidge reflects on just what there is to find so wonderful about this world and why being open to the world in this way is its own radical gesture.

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Well-read Red: Assata Shakur and the Law

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Mon, 05/20/2013

Well-read Red, Frann Michel, reads an article from the website of Solidarity, a socialist-feminist-antiracist organization, and adds some comments at the end.  The article is about Assata Shakur and the government's recent campaign to smear her as a terrorist by naming her one of the FBI's most wanted. The situation bears an uncanny similarity to what Cara Dugas was saying just a couple weeks earlier about labeling environmentalists as eco-terrorists.

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Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle

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Mon, 05/20/2013

Alan Wieder remembers the Rivonia Raid 50 years after it happened. The South African government in the early 1960s attacked the Rovonia farm, then occupied by the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. These two groups, from which Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo came, were against the apartheid government.

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  • Length: 10:21 minutes (9.49 MB)
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Old Mole Variety Hour May 20th 2013

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Mon, 05/20/2013

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode and we hear:

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A People's Budget for Portland

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Mon, 05/13/2013

While the Mayor and the City Council make plans for cutting services, other members of the community are planning a budget that would increase the services that make for a civilized city.  Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with two activists involved in the People's Budget Project, Megan Hise and Shamus Cooke.  

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Book Mole: "The Burgess Boys"

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Mon, 05/13/2013

Elizabeth Strout's new novel The Burgess Boys concerns two brothers who must return to their home town to deal with issues they thought they'd left behind.  The novel shows how extraordinary are the lives of ordinary people living ordinary lives when seen through the eyes of "a compassionate and wise story teller."  Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden compares it with Strout's earlier novel, the Pulitzer Prize winning best seller Olive Kitteridge, which Larry also reviewed on the Old Mole.  

 

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Criminalizing Environmental Activism

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Mon, 05/13/2013

Two bills which impose increased penalties on those who take direct action to save trees and endangered species have passed the Oregon House and are on their way to the Senate -- HB 2595 and HB 2596.  Well-read Red Cara Dugas explains what's in them, what's wrong with them, and reads from Will Potter's book Green is the New Red which explores the threat to free speech in calling those who block environmental destruction "terrorists".  

These bills have not passed the Oregon Senate.  To call your state senator, go here to find his/her contact info.

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Queer Documentary Film Festival

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Mon, 05/13/2013

Film maker Deb Tullman, co-director of Born This Way, talks with the Old Mole's Denise Morris about her film and Q-Doc -- Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival which is happening this weekend.  Here is all the relelvant festival info.  Born This Way  takes place in Camaroon, and "explores the underground gay and lesbian culture in an intensely homophobic society that is taking its first steps towards greater acceptance."  

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Old Mole Variety Hour for May 13, 2013

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Joe Clement hosts this episode, which includes:

  1. Bill Resnick talks with Megan Hise and Shamus Cooke about the People's Budget Project for Portland.
  2. Larry Bowlden reviews Elizabeth Strout's new novel The Burgess Boys.
  3. Well-read Red Cara Dugas discusses Oregon bills that would ramp up criminalization of environmental protest actions.
  4. Denise Morris interviews film director Deb Tullman about her film Born This Way and the Queer Documentary Film Festival coming to Portland this weekend.

To listen to any segment of the show, follow the links above.  To hear the whole show, use the play button below. To follow the Old Mole, beome our friend on Facebook!

 

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Jason Collins and coming out in the NBA: a discussion with Yasmin Nair

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Wed, 05/08/2013

Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair about NBA player Jason Collins coming out. They use the situation as an opportunity to relfect on what it means to come out and the particular expectations built into this process, about who can come out about what.   

Yasmin Nair is a Chicago-based writer, academic, activist and commentator. Her work appears in various anthologies, including "Captive Genders: trans-embodiment and the prison-industrial complex", "Windy City Queer: LGBTQ dispatches from the third coast", and "Arab Studies Quarterly". She's also a member of the editorial collective Against Equality.

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Comments

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Submitted by troutdaleindependent on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 8:17am.

Hi, when will the August 13th podcast be posted? 

Avatar's Jake Sully is ---- Tarzan - - -

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 12:43am.

 

A great review I've seen on Avatar (and how the soldier will save the people):

http://www.progressive.org/mp/danto010510.html

There is a link from there that exposes Cameron's plot as a mirror of Pocahontas, amazing parallel!      http://failblog.org/2010/01/10/avatar-plot-fail/

 

Since watching Avatar, I have viewed older videos on DVD and would rate that ahead of Avatar.

 

mel

 

 

 

commentary transcripts

Submitted by KBOO (not verified) on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 10:57am.

It's convenient to have the Old Mole audio files available.
Even more useful for some of us would be transcripts of the commentaries (Clayton Morgareidge). Written material allows a person a chance to review, consider, digest and refer to mentioned references & thinkers. The "Well Read Red" commentary from 4 Aug 08 is a good example of a piece I'd like to read at my own pace.

transcripts

Submitted by Clayton Morgareidge on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 6:41pm.
We will see to it that this happens whenever there is a prepared text. Thanks for the suggestion. Clayton Morgareidge The Old Mole Variety Hour

These folks are so profound

Submitted by Joe (not verified) on Sat, 07/26/2008 - 2:23pm.

These folks are so profound and fascinating, especially the Resnick guy. Wow!

good post

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