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Old Mole Variety Hour December 3rd 2012

Airs at: Tue, 12/04/2012 at 12:00am
Iven Hale hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear:     Bill Resnick talk with Chris Toensing about the future of Palestine Alan Weider comments on Obama's neoliberal "deformist" education policies Joe Clement interviews Kathi Weeks about her book on "The P... Read more

Kathi Weeks: The Problem With Work

Airs at: Tue, 12/04/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Joe Clement talks with Kathi Weeks about her book "The Problem with Work: feminism, marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries". They discuss the work ethic and why it promises more than it delivers. They also consider the tradition of antiwork politics and how fe... Read more

Bill Resnick on the FIscal Cliff

Airs at: Mon, 12/03/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill Resnick offers this brief commentary on the so-called fiscal cliff. He offers why it's a lie, what alternatives still lay within reach and how we can agitate for them. Read more

Obama's Deformist Education Policies

Airs at: Mon, 12/03/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Alan Weider offers this incisive commentary on the Obama Administration's "race to the top" education program and the way that it commodifies education. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour November 26, 2012

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein about Wal-Mart and the workers organizing against it on Black Friday.  Joe Clement introduces Utah Phillips talking & singing about blaming & dumping the bosses.  The movie moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel discuss... Read more

Movie Moles: Argo? Naught.

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Movie moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel discuss the new film Argo, about the CIA's "exfiltration" of six US embassy workers hidden in Tehran by Canadian diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis. Although the popular movie offers some valuable historical information cr... Read more

Pepper Sprayed High School Students Hold Press Conferece, State Resolve

Airs at: Fri, 11/23/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Occupy Portland Radio
Normal 0 Around 300 protesters gathered in the Lloyd District on November 3rd for an unpermitted march against austerity.  The police were out in their riot gear force and used pepper spray for crowd control.  High school students bore the brunt of the violence and hel... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour November 19th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 11/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Alan Wieder hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear: Alan call for a rethinking of Thanksgiving and what we teach our children about it Bill Resnick talks with Stephen Zunes about Palestine and Israel Larry Bowlden reviews Charity Shumway's "10 Girls to W... Read more

European Strike Update

Airs at: Mon, 11/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement remarks briefly on the massively coordinated strikes in Europe and comments on their meaning. He quotes or mentions material from Counterfire.org, Libcom.org, The Christian Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal. Read more

Yasmin Nair beyond Illegal vs. Undocumented

Airs at: Mon, 11/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair about immigrants-rights rhetoric and how certain strategies meant to insulate them from stereotypes and "include" may shutter the actual situation of undocument workers. She argues that the "undocumented not afraid" movement started as a... Read more