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Views, Reviews, and Interviews from a socialist-feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial point of view.

Every Monday from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM.

A program of social and political commentary from a socialist-feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial point of view.

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, anti-capitalist, feminist, anti-colonial and anti-racist. We count Karl Marx as a friend but are open to other voices from the left. The show includes analyses of global politics and economics, local grassroots activism, segments on the Left & the Law, and reviews of films, books, music, and theater.

Contributors include: Julian Ankney, Larry Bowlden, Joe Clement, Norm Diamond, Kevin Foster, Jan Haaken, Desiree Hellegers, Patricia Kullberg, Luisa Martinez, Laurie Mercier, Frann Michel, Denise Morris, Bill Resnick, Victoria Saucedo, Sophie Smith, Mike Snedecker, Roben White, Matt Witt

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Our theme song is the traditional "Mole in the Ground," sometimes performed by Clayton & Ernie, sometimes by Joe Clement, and sometimes blended with other versions, like the one by dj/rupture, sung by Sindhu Zagoren on the album Special Gunpowder, or Blind Boy Paxton

Our graphic lettering is by Charlie Ertola. Host portraits by Clayton Morgareidge.

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Movie Moles: "The Garden" (revisited)

Airs at: Mon, 04/07/2014 at 12:00am

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To illustrate the kind of community work outside the system of wage labor and capital, we revisit the scene of "the garden" in a movie reviewed in 2011 by our Movie Moles. A 14 acre community garden in South Central Los Angeles, established after the riots of 1992, unde... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 7, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 04/07/2014 at 12:00am

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Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show dealing with an effort to (sort of ) rewrite Marx's Capital for the 21st Century; the illusion that the American Dream can be restored to "the middle class"; the latest science on climate change and what it demands of us; and community... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour March 31 2014

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with Patricia Scheceter about Portland State professors going on strike for educator-led education and the public mission of the university. In a related report, Frann Michel describes a new element di... Read more

Book Mole: Lively Memoir

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2014 at 12:00am

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Larry Bowlden reviews Penelope Lively's not-quite-memoir Dancing Fish and Ammonites, dispatches from Old Age, which, unlike much writing on later life, focuses on what is left rather than what is lost with age. Larry surveys a number of works from Lively's prizewinning l... Read more

Rethinking Psychiatry Film Festival

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2014 at 12:00am

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Jan Haaken talks with Grace Silvia about the Rethinking Psychiatry Film Festival. The organization Rethinking Psychiatry is an activist organization trying to shift away from pathologizing and toward recognizing a variety of ways of being in the world, toward recognizin... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 31 March 2014

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2014 at 12:00am

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Hosted as well as engineered by Joe Clement, this episode features discussions of Education, Labor, Aging, Reading, Psychiatry and Cinema: Bill Resnick talks with Portland State University Professor Patricia Schechter about faculty labor struggles and neoliberal educati... Read more

Patricia Schechter on Possible PSU Faculty Strike

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2014 at 12:00am

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Bill Resnick talks with History Professor Patricia Schechter of Portland State University's faculty union, the American Association of University Professors, about why faculty are ready to strike after 10 months of bargaining. They discuss faculty stability, pay equity, ... Read more

On Wage Work and Wanting Less of It

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2014 at 12:00am

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Joe Clement talks with Peter Frase about the desirability of working less, the possibility of the shorter work week, and the nature of wage and other labor. They discuss the productivity and problems of wage labor and the value of what is known as "free time"; the varied... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 03/24/14

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Bob Peterson on rethinking schools, debunking the privatizing agenda, and fighting for education

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2014 at 12:00am

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Bill Resnick talks with Bob Peterson of Rethinking Schools. They discuss the capitalist agenda to remake education into a business and why it isn't working. They consider ways that teaching has to connect to children's real lives, which standardized testing makes impossi... Read more