Old Mole Variety Hour

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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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Italian Politics

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2013 at 12:00am
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Politics in Italy has always been entertaining, with its frequently falling governments.  In the most recent elections there, a real entertainer named Beppe Grillo ("Joe Cricket"), leading a new party with a rhetoric combining progressive and reactionary positions, leape... Read more

Being a Public Healthcare Worker

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2013 at 12:00am
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in this personal account, Old Mole Iven Hale recounts some harrowing experiences as a community healthcare worker trying to help folks who are doubly challenged with both serious illness and poverty. Read more

Voting Rights and the Supreme Court

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2013 at 12:00am
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Justice Anthony Scalia has compared civil rights-era voting legislation to welfare entitlements, as if protecting the right to vote were a "government handout".  Well Read Red Frann Michel looks into the challenge to this legislation that has now reached the Supreme Court. Read more

Poverty Is a Queer Issue

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2013 at 12:00am
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Radical LGBT activists see the fight for gay marriage as a distraction from the more important struggle for economic justice.  Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis is one such activist -- a writer for A New Queer Agenda.  Here he talks with the Old Mole's Denise Morris about how L... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2013 at 12:00am
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Hosted by Joe Clement, this show covers recent developments in Italian politics, experiences in public healthcare, challenges to voting rights laws in the Supreme Court, and why economic justice is an issue for LGBT activists.  To hear the whole show, use the play button... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 25, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2013 at 12:00am
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 Alan Wieder hosts this episode, featuring music from David Rovics as well as an interview with him, a discussion of the economics and politics of mass incarceration, a review of a recent comic novel, and a commentary on the ideology of austerity.  Bill Resnick talks wit... Read more

David Weiman on Mass Incarceration

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2013 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick talks with economist David Weiman about the political forces encouraging the growth and maintaining of prisons and punitive policing in the USA. They consider not only media influence and legislators desire to keep jobs in their areas but also the fear-enha... Read more

Book Mole: Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2013 at 12:00am
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Larry Bowlden reviews the novel Where'd You Go Bernadette? by Maria Semple , and finds the young narrator's story of life with her professional-class parents, and her mother's disappearance, very funny and engaging. Read more

David Rovics Interview

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2013 at 12:00am
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Alan Wieder talks with local singer-songwriter-activist David Rovics about his work, about living in Oregon, where the police have killed more black men per capita than anywhere else, about releasing songs online for free download, and about his new online book Have Gui... Read more

Well-Read Red: Austerity is About Ideology, Not Economics

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2013 at 12:00am
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Tom Becker shares Alex Himmelfarb's essay about The Trouble with Austerity: Cutting Is More About Ideology than Economics. Read more