Old Mole Variety Hour

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Airs at: Mon, 12/22/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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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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Chris Toensing on the future of Palestine

Airs at: Mon, 12/03/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill Resnick talks with Chris Toensing, an editor of Middle East Research and Information Project, talk about the recent UN recognition (of sorts) of Palestine, as well as the future of a participatory democracy in Palestine. Read more

Obama's Deformist Education Policies

Airs at: Mon, 12/03/2012 at 12:00am
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 Alan Weider offers this incisive commentary on the Obama Administration's "race to the top" education program and the way that it commodifies education. Read more

Bill Resnick on the FIscal Cliff

Airs at: Mon, 12/03/2012 at 12:00am
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 Bill Resnick offers this brief commentary on the so-called fiscal cliff. He offers why it's a lie, what alternatives still lay within reach and how we can agitate for them. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 11/26/12

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Iven Hale hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with Nelson Lichtenstein about the Black Friday strikes and growing resistance to Wal-Mart. Movie Moles, Jan Haaken and Frann Michel, review Argo. Read more

Lichtenstein on Walmart Activism

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick talks with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein, Professor of History at the University of California Santa Barbara and author of The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business and editor of Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-... Read more

Utah Philips: Dump the Bosses

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am
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  Joe Clement introduces Utah Phillips explaining the value of knowing clearly who  deserves blame, and then performing the Wobbly song "Dump the Bosses Off Our Backs."   Read more

Movie Moles: Argo? Naught.

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am
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Movie moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel discuss the new film Argo, about the CIA's "exfiltration" of six US embassy workers hidden in Tehran by Canadian diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis. Although the popular movie offers some valuable historical information... Read more

Revisiting Three Strikes

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am
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Joe Clement reads from Brent Staples's recent essay on the revision of California's Three-Strikes-and-You're Out law, which unjustly imprisoned for life many nonviolent, abused, and mentally ill and disabled people. The Three Strikes Project at Stanford Law School has ... Read more

World Bank Warns Globe Could be Cooked by 2060: Where’s the News?

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am
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Tom Becker reads from Dave Lindorff's analysis of the World Bank's recent report on the likelihood of catastrophic global warming, and of the failures of the mainstream press to report on it except in the business section Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour November 26, 2012

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick talks with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein about Wal-Mart and the workers organizing against it on Black Friday.  Joe Clement introduces Utah Phillips talking & singing about blaming & dumping the bosses.  The movie moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel disc... Read more