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Barbara Harvey on Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with attorney Barbara Harvey about the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. Barbara explains BDS is a nonviolent form of resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestine, aiming to ensure not only the end to Israeli occupation, but also equal rig... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 09/16/13

Airs at: Mon, 09/16/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick speaks with Paula Rabinowitz, who just competed a 4 volume series on clothes and accessories, how people use them to create identities, identify selves, resist subordination, and generally communicate. They examine the 20th century, beginning with the us... Read more

Who We Are In What We Wear

Airs at: Mon, 09/16/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
How do we express our identity and our politics in what we wear?  Paula Rabinowitz is a co-editor of Habits of Being, a four-volume collection of essays dealing with how our clothing and accessories express and shape the image and the politics of individuals.  Here she t... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 16, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 09/16/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear --Bill Resnick and Paula Rabinowitz discuss the personal, cultural, and political signficance of the clothing and accessories we wear;About Occupy's official one demand: an end to capitalism;A review of a novel a... Read more

The Myth of American Exceptionalism

Airs at: Mon, 09/16/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
That the USA is and always has been a force for good in the world is part of what makes the nation unique -- an exception to the general rule of national self-interest followed by other countries.  This is part of the myth of "American Exceptionalism" that passes for com... Read more

Occupy's One Demand

Airs at: Mon, 09/16/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
On the first anniversary of the start of the Occupy movement, and after much debate about the effectiveness of demands, the movement has announced one big demand: the end of capitalism.  Here Joe Clement comments on how this demand comprehends all the issues the Occupy m... Read more

Book Mole: "To Be Sung Underwater"

Airs at: Mon, 09/16/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden review Tom McNeal's novel To Be Sung Underwater, an "exploration of marriage and the many ways in which marriages can go wrong."  You can find an archive of Larry's reviews here. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 09/09/13

Airs at: Mon, 09/09/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Jim Wallis on Progressive Christianity

Airs at: Mon, 09/09/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Jim Wallis - a self styled evangelical, founder and editor of Sojourners, a very ecumenical and interfaith journal. He has written ten books and helped organize big religious coalitions on immigration and gay rights, and has been attacked by Glen ... Read more

Humanitarian Intervention: the human rights gift that keeps on giving to US Imperialism

Airs at: Mon, 09/09/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads "Humanitarian Intervention - the human rights gift that keeps on giving to US Imperialism" by Ajamu Baraka. Read more