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Views, Reviews, and Interviews from a Socialist-Feminist, Anti-racist, Anti-colonial and LGBTQ-positive Perspective

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Patricia Kullberg, Bill Resnick, Denise Morris, Frann Michel, Laurie Mercier, Joe Clement, Jan Haaken, Larry Bowlden, Jon Nelson, OldMoleVarietyHour

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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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Movie Moles: "Hope Springs"

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

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Hope Springs is a 2012 movie starring Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones about a couple with 30 years of marriage going to a marriage counselor to renew their faded passion. Our Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris give us a critical and yet very appreciative review o... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 10/28/13

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Monopoly, Neoliberalism and the Economic Game

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2013 at 12:00am

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Well-read Red Clayton Morgaredige contrasts the boardgame monopoly and the game of really existing American capitalism. There are a couple of ways Monopology is not like capitalism: everyone starts out with the same resources and success is largely determined by strategy... Read more

Book Mole: Eight Girls Taking Pictures

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2013 at 12:00am

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Larry Bowlden reviews Portland-area author Whitney Otto's "Eight Girls Taking Pictures", a collection of short-stories about real life women photographers. Their lives span the 20th Century and repeat a motif of challenging sexism in the world of photography. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 28 2013

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2013 at 12:00am

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Denise Morris hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Fight for $15 labor activist, Trisha Kahle, about the movement and its political contexts Larry Bowlden reviews Portland-area author Whitney Otto's "Eight Girls Taking Pictures". Well-... Read more

Public Enemy: Bill Ayers on his critics, the sectarian left, and his new memoir

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2013 at 12:00am

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Jan Haaken talks with education activist, Bill Ayers, about his recent memoir "Public Enemy: confessions of an American dissident". The book responds in part to critics who used Bill's controversial history as a founding member of the The Weather Underground (radical lef... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 28 2013

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2013 at 12:00am

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Trisha Kahle, revolutionary socialist union organizer, talks about the Fight for $15

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2013 at 12:00am

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Bill Resnick talks with Fight for $15 labor activist, Trisha Kahle, about the movement and its political contexts. She is an SEIU union organizer and works at Whole Foods. She is also the author of a recent Jacobin Magazine article about why the Left shouldn't downplay o... Read more

Old Mole Special on Climate Change and Other Crucial Environmental Issues

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 8:00am - 10:00am

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Celebrate Membership Drive by tuning in to an Old Mole climate change special: Mark Herstsgaard on the threat of climate change and also the many reasons for hope including the growth of our movements; Mark Jacobson on how, if we mobilize our resources, we can eliminate ... Read more

Climate Report: Hot!

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am

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In Part One of the Old Mole two-hour special on confronting climate change, Bill Resnick talks with Mark Hertsgaard about the latest scientific findings about how and why the climate is changing and what the consequences will likely be. Hertsgaard is a journalist who ha... Read more