Old Mole Variety Hour

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Views, Reviews, and Interviews from a Socialist-Feminist, Anti-racist, Anti-colonial and LGBTQ-positive Perspective
Hosted by: 
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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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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Activism, Class, Race, Gender, Sexuality, Labor, Legislation, Environment/Climate, Government/Politics, Energy/Natural Resources, Economy, Law/Court/Crime, LGBTQ, Arts/Culture, Fiction, Film, Movement for Racial Justice, Indigenous, Housing/Homelessness, Health, Disability, COVID19, Education, Community Building
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The Global Movement for Freedom

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
George Katsiaficas has written widely about people's liberation movements around the world, many of them unreported in our media.  Here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the "Eros Effect" -- the desire for freedom that constantly asserts itself in uprisings... Read more

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.... Read more

Community Radio and the Rise of the Right

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Claire Connor has described her political journey in Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America's Radical Right.  In Portland on a speaking tour, Old Mole contributor Paul Roland talked with her about the right wing's domination of the corporate media and the ris... Read more

Book Mole: "Private Life"

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jane Smiley's 2010 novel Private Life: Marriage Can Sometimes Be the Lonliest Place takes the life of Margaret from 1883 to 1942, revealing in one "private life" the larger world in which it is lived.  Larry Bowlden reviews this work of a major American writer.  More of ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 19, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show featuring an unusually optimistic Bill Resnick interview about the growth of people's movements around the world, and our Movie Moles in an engaging critique of "Orange is the New Black," the TV series about a women's prison.  We also ... Read more

Utopia and Daily Life

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Utopias and dystupias are frequent themes in science fiction.  Gerry Canavan is a scholar of the utopian imagination, and he talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how the interplay between politics and utopia in history and in daily life.  Canavan teaches cul... Read more

Crimes of Obama and the Liberal Response

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Establishment liberals have been mostly silent as President Obama has expanded the national security state for which liberals castigated his predecessor George W. Bush.  In this article, published on Al Jazeera and read here by Joe Clement, Deepa Kumar demonstrates the c... Read more

On Anarchist Organizing

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
There is no contradiction in anarchists organizing.  To find out why, listen to this conversation between the Old Mole's Cara Dugas and organizer Colin O"Malley.  O'Malley is on speaking tour about how and why anarchists need to be organized and engaged with other left p... Read more

Beware of Cold War Thinking in the War on Terror

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The national security state asks the citizens to trust it when it declares a terror alert: is this to divert our attention from the real threat to freedom posed by the state itself?  J. P. Sottile suggest that it is in this article from Counterpunch, read for us here by ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 12, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode and we learn about the political influence of utopian and dystopian literature, the deceptions and crimes of the national security state, and what it means for anarchists to organize.  To hear the show in its entirety, use the play button be... Read more