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

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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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Reading: Edward Snowden is a Patriot not a Traitor

Airs at: Mon, 07/15/2013 at 12:00am

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Tom Becker reads Dave Lindorf's His 'Crime' is Patriotism, not Betrayal: Like Hale's Philip Nolan, Snowden has Become a 'Man Without a Country'. It describes how Edward Snowden was drawn in by War on Terror propaganda, how he awakened to the propaganda and hacked into NS... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 07/08/13

Airs at: Mon, 07/08/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Deadly Austerity

Airs at: Mon, 07/08/2013 at 12:00am

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The Greek government under pressure from international banking has cut jobs and social services drastically, rendering a bad economic situation worse. Costas Panayoktakis is a political economist and activist from Greece who teaches at CUNY and is expert on the economic... Read more

Freedom and Democracy: Three Well-read Reds

Airs at: Mon, 07/08/2013 at 12:00am

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Last weekend was full of Fourth of July celebrations, and in this set of commentaries, the Old Mole's Well-read Reds provide perspective on the state of freedom and democracy now and in the nation's past. The three are:Joe Clement reads from Cory Robins post about the d... Read more

Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay Prison

Airs at: Mon, 07/08/2013 at 12:00am

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The Left and the Law. Thousands of prisoners California's Pelican Bay Prison and throughout the state have been on a hunger strike to protest arbitrary sentences to solitary confinement. Attorney Mike Snedeker and psychologist Jan Haaken discuss the conditions and the ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 8, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 07/08/2013 at 12:00am

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Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole dealing with several aspects of freedom and self-determination -- from the extreme unfreedom of solitary confinement in maximum security prisons to wage slavery and mass unemployment. To hear this program in its ent... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 07/01/13

Airs at: Mon, 07/01/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Joe Clement hosts this episode of the Old Mole and we hear:Bill Resnick talk with John Bellamy Foster about leftist strategy, which requires short term changes in production to lower greenhouse gas emissions and long term struggles to transform production towards steady ... Read more

Movie Mole: Blacking Up - hiphop's remixing of race and identity

Airs at: Mon, 07/01/2013 at 12:00am

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Cara Dugas reviews Robert Clift's "Blacking Up: hiphop's remixing of race and identity", a new documentary about cultural appropriation and white hip-hop. Clift is a white hip-hop artist himself. His interrogation of the subject goes back to minstral shows and asks: are ... Read more

What's Wrong with Liberalism?

Airs at: Mon, 07/01/2013 at 12:00am

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Joe Clement introduces two songs that aired back to back, both of which are in a tradition of protest music that take issue with liberals for their complicity in imperialism and capitalism. They were Phil Och's Love Me I'm A Liberal (1966) and Mischief Brew's Free Radica... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 1st 2013

Airs at: Mon, 07/01/2013 at 12:00am

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Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with UO sociologist and editor of Monthly review, John Bellamy Foster, about leftist strategy in the context of ecological crisesCara Dugas reviews "Blacking Up: hip-hop's remixing of race and identity", a d... Read more