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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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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

Old Mole Variety Hour on 06/24/13

Airs at: Mon, 06/24/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Iven Hale hosts the next episode of the Old Mole and we hear:Bill Resnick talks with George Cheney about the Mondragon network of cooperative-businesses based in Spain with facilities around the globe. They discuss the extent to which workers really have a chance for dem... Read more

Mondragón: New Economic Model?

Airs at: Mon, 06/24/2013 at 12:00am

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Mondragón is a large and successful set of worker-owned and cooperatively managed enterprises in the Basque region of Spain. Sociologist George Cheney has studied and written about Mondragón for many years, and here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how th... Read more

Talking About Community Radio

Airs at: Mon, 06/24/2013 at 12:00am

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Old Mole guest Paul Roland conducts a wide-ranging conversation about listener-supported non-commercial radio with Paul Stockwell, a long-time member of the management collective at WORT in Madison, Wisconsin. They talk about the historical origins of this kind of commu... Read more

A Higher Minimum Wage Would Lift all Boats

Airs at: Mon, 06/24/2013 at 12:00am

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Raising the minimum wage to equal half the average salary of workers would benefit the whole economy, says John Schmitt in this article in CounterPunch, "The Path to Wage-Led Growth". It is read here by Old Mole Tom Becker. Read more

Aristocratic Neoliberalism

Airs at: Mon, 06/24/2013 at 12:00am

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Neoliberal political thought is deeply anti-democratic and believes that the rich should rule. A recent article by Cory Robin in The Nation demonstrates this, and here Clayton Morgareidge summarizes and comments on it. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 06/17/13

Airs at: Mon, 06/17/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Clayton Morgareidge will host this episode of the Old Mole which includesBill Resnick talking with sociologist Charles Derber about how and why young people are becoming more skeptical about consumerism;A Left and the Law segment about Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, an... Read more