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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, Bill Resnick, Denise Morris, Frann Michel, Laurie Mercier, Joe Clement, Jan Haaken, Larry Bowlden, 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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Old Mole Variety Hour July 16, 2012

Airs at: Mon, 07/16/2012 at 12:00am

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Laurie Mercier hosts and interviews Bangladeshi writer and activist Azfar Hussain about his latest collection of essays. Bill Resnick talks with Arne Jungjohan, senior advisor for energy of the German Green Party and Director for the Environment and Global Dialogue Pro... Read more

Starving the Postal Service

Airs at: Mon, 07/09/2012 at 12:00am

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Laurie Mercier talks with retired letter carrier Jamie Partridge about his recent participation in a hunger strike in protest of Congress's decision to starve the US Postal Service by mandating that it prefund retiree health benefits 75 years in advance. The hunger str... Read more

On the need for prison abolition

Airs at: Mon, 07/09/2012 at 12:00am

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Iven Hale comments on the torture of isolation and incarceration, the recent Senate hearings on solitary confinement, Dostoevsky, Alcatraz as a tourist attraction, her work with high-risk felons on parole and probation, and the need for prison abolition because priso... Read more

Peter Watt on Drug War Mexico

Airs at: Mon, 07/09/2012 at 12:00am

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Bill Resnick talks with Peter Watt, co-author with Roberto Zepeda of Drug War Mexico: Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy, about the recent reports of drug-related violence in Mexico. Watt notes that government violence has functioned to preser... Read more

Interest-rate -fixing scandal

Airs at: Mon, 07/09/2012 at 12:00am

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Tom Becker reads from Robert Reich's recent essay The Wall Street Scandal of All Scandals about the LIBOR ("London interbank offered rate") scandal, in which bankers fixed interest rates in order to siphon trillions of dollars from ordinary people. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 9, 2012

Airs at: Mon, 07/09/2012 at 12:00am

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Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole in which we hear about the need to save the Postal Service and the need to abolish prisons, as well as about the economic incentives behind the violence of the Mexican drug trade and "drug war"; and the latest revelations abo... Read more

Movie Moles: The Healthcare Movie

Airs at: Tue, 07/03/2012 at 12:00am

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Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discuss The Healthcare Movie, a locally-made independent film comparing the present and historical differences between the US and Canadian health care systems. After World War II, local grassroots activism built a single-payer system in Sa... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 07/02/12

Airs at: Mon, 07/02/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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At 9am Monday, July 2, 2012 The Old Mole Variety Hour focuses on health and healthcare and features Bill Resnick and health-policy analyst Chris Lowe on the recent SCOTUS decision Jan Haaken on Pink Ribbons, Ink Denise Morris on The Healthcare Movie Frann Michel hosting an... Read more

Pros & Cons of Obamacare: Organizing Toward Single-Payer

Airs at: Mon, 07/02/2012 at 12:00am

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Bill Resnick talks with Chris Lowe, who is an activist with the Portland Jobs with Justice Healthcare Committee , and is chair of the Legislation and Policy Committee of the Health Care for All - Oregon Coalition (which can be reached at 503-256-5573). They discuss the... Read more

Healthism and Medicalization in the Neoliberal Era

Airs at: Mon, 07/02/2012 at 12:00am

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Frann Michel discusses the phenomenon of "healthism," the elevation of health to an individualized and pervasive moral value, a neoliberal attitude used to rationalize withholding care from those deemed undeserving. You can read her comments and follow links to som... Read more