Old Mole Variety Hour

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Views, Reviews, and Interviews from a Socialist-Feminist, Anti-racist, Anti-colonial and LGBTQ-positive Perspective
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Patricia Kullberg, Denise Morris, Frann Michel, Laurie Mercier, Joe Clement, Jan Haaken, 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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Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker hosts this show about the search for a vanished but popular musician, living shamelessly on public assistance, the demise of the European welfare state, and remembering a radical historian and activist.  To hear the whole show, use the play button below.  To h... Read more

Movie Moles: "Searching for Sugarman"

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Old Mole Jan Haaken talks with Alan Wieder about the film "Searching for Sugar Man", now playing in Portland.  The film tells two stories: one about the US rock singer known as Rodriguez who became popular and politically influential in South Africa but forgotten in his... Read more

Austerity: The European Model

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Leo Panitch is a Distinguished Research Professor at York University, renowned political economist, Marxist theorist and editor of the Socialist Register.   He is the co-author, along with Sam Gindin who appeared on last week's Old Mole,  of The Making of Global Capitali... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour Labor Day 2012

Airs at: Tue, 09/04/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  On today's special labor-day Old Mole, Laurie Mercier hosts and we hear:   Bill Resnick talk with Sam Gindin about long-term working-class strategies to resisting capitalism Laurie and Denise Morris review the 1990 documentary about the Hormel meat-packers str... Read more

Sam Gindin on Building Working-Class Power Part 2

Airs at: Tue, 09/04/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talk with Sam Gidin in this second of a two-part interview. They consider why working class resistance during the current crisis has been insufficient to prevail over the maneuvers of the ruling apparatuses, and what’s the long term strategy/vision to buil... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 09/03/12

Airs at: Mon, 09/03/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Laurie Mercier hosts this special Labor Day episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Sam Gindin, an economist and activist who spent more than 20 years in the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Union, now teaches at York University, Toronto, and is author of the forth... Read more

Paid Sick Days Now: an illness to one is contagious for all

Airs at: Mon, 09/03/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Emmit Nolan and Marie, members of the Portland IWW, about their Paid Sick Days Now! campaign. In addition to the October 6th rally at Holiday Park, they discuss the problem of workers coming into work sick because they have no other choice, the fai... Read more

Sam Gidin on Building Working-Class Power

Airs at: Mon, 09/03/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talk with Sam Gidin in this first of a two-part interview. They consider why working class resistance during the current crisis has been insufficient to prevail over the maneuvers of the ruling apparatuses, and what’s the long term strategy/vision to build p... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 08/27/12

Airs at: Mon, 08/27/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
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Bill Smaldone History of German Social Democrats Part Two

Airs at: Mon, 08/27/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick continues his interview with Historian Bill Smaldone about the German Social Democratic Party. They discuss the split within the party over World War I, the Weimar Republic period of liberal democracy, developments after WW2 when social democrats developed ... Read more