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).
Here is why we call this show "The Old Mole"
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.
Our graphic lettering is by Charlie Ertola.
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Audio
Working With Homeless Women
Laurie Mercier talks with Anitra Freeman of Women's Housing, Equality and Enhancement League (WHEEL) about the work her organization does with homeless women in Seattle. She will be speaking at In Other Word Bookstore on Thursday, April 17 (call 503-232-6003 for info).
- Title: 03 Working with Homeless Women
- Album: April 7, 2008
- Length: 8:36 minutes (3.94 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
Old Mole Variety Hour for April 7, 2008
Hosted by Laurie Mercier, this program reviews the case for veganism with an animal rights activist and a vegan cookbook author. We also hear from a Seattle activist who works with homeless women, and from an Italian geographer about the resistance in Sardinia to privatization of land.
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- Title: OMV 4_7_08
- Album: April 7, 2008
- Length: 36:59 minutes (16.94 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
Drug Policy and Racial Profiling
Clayton Mosher talks with Luz María Gordillo about how the war on drugs immigration policies and police work contribute to racial profiling at all levels of society. Mosher is the co-author (with Scott Akins) of Drugs andDrug Policy: The Control of Consciousness Alteration.
- Title: 04 Drugs & Racial Profiling
- Album: March 31, 2008
- Length: 11:30 minutes (5.27 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
All About the WTO
Unclear about exactly what the WTO (World Trade Organization) does and how it uses its powers? Mary Bottari, Director of Global Trade Watch's Harmonization Project, lays it all out in this lucid interview with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.
- Title: 02 All About the WTO
- Album: March 31, 2008
- Length: 13:19 minutes (6.1 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
"Before Women Had Wings"
Larry Bowlden reviews Connie May Fowler's 1997 novel Before Women Had Wings.
- Title: 03 _Before Women Had Wings_
- Album: March 31, 2008
- Length: 7:52 minutes (3.61 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
Old Mole Variety Hour for March 31, 2008
This show is hosted by Luz María Gordillo and features discussions of the WTO (how it works and whom it favors), a novel about a tough childhood called Before Women Had Wings, and how drug and immigration policies lead to racial profiling. To hear the whole show, click on the arrow above. To hear individual pieces, click on their links below.
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2. Before Women Had Wings; our book mole Larry Bowlden discusses Connie May Fowler's novel.
- Title: OMV 3_31_08'

