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Left & The Law: Prison Hunger Strike Success

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Inmates in California's high security prisons went on a well-organized hunger strike last summer to protest the massive use of solitary confinement, as The Left & the Law reported in July. Today Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken discuss the several positive outcomes of that str... Read more

The Global/US National Security State

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

We are being reminded daily these days of the size and scope of US power around the world: seven or eight hundred military bases, surveillance of everyone everywhere, and air strikes anywhere from drones in the sky. Here Bill Resnick and Bill Smalldone discuss the continui... Read more

PLEDGE DRIVE SPECIAL: Peter Pincetl & Prison Pipeline

Produced for: Experience Points

Host Ren Green interviewed Peter Pincetl of KBOO's Prison Pipeline Collective on his experience with our Criminal Justice System, the challenges parolees face when they reintegrate into society, and what Prison Pipeline offers listeners. (Music: "Advil Confirmed" by JD Fa... Read more

The Left & The Law: Lifers

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

In the US, there are 110,439 prisoners serving life sentences and 49,081 serving life without parole. Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken discuss the growing use of life sentences, why it happened, and the prospects for change in this conversation in their ongoing series The Left... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 23 September 2013

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Iven Hale hosts this show, which features Bill Resnick talking with Barbara Harvey about the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement to end the Israeli occupation of PalestineMovie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discussing the documentary Free Angela and All Political P... Read more

Movie Moles on Free Angela and all political prisoners

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Movie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discuss Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, a documentary about the 1970-72 indictment and trial of the philosophy professor, communist party member, and Black activist Angela Davis, accused of complicity in a failed and fatal a... Read more

News You're Not Supposed to Know

Airs at: Thu, 08/15/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Presswatch

Review: "Orange is the New Black"

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Movie Moles Frann Michel and Iven Hale take a critical, yet appreciative, look at "Orange is the New Black," the Netflix series that has just finished its first season. They point out its failures to fully represent prison life, while finding much to admire in the show. F... Read more

Orange is the New

On the 19 August 2013 Old Mole Variety Hour, Iven Hale and I discuss the Netflix series Orange is the New Black, about life in a women's minimum security Federal prison. Developed by Jenji Kohan, known for having created the Showtime series Weeds, Orange is the New Black is... Read more