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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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Jules Boykoff on Corporatizing the Olympics

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2012 at 12:00am

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Bill Resnick talks with Jules Boykoff, a former Olympic athlete, current Associate Professor of Political Science at Pacific University, and author of the forthcoming book Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London (Rutgers University Pres... Read more

Movie Moles on The Dark Knight Rises

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2012 at 12:00am

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The Dark Knight Ruses: Joe Clement and Iven Hale discuss the failure of Christopher Nolan's latest Batman film to live up to the rumors about its representation of the Occupy Movement, and how the film instead rationalizes a police state, and bears closer comparison ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 30 July 2012

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2012 at 12:00am

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Bill Resnick hosts this episode, which features Jules Boykoff on the London Olympics and its discontents, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker on gun violence in America, and Joe Clement and Iven Hale on how The Dark Knight Rises is not about the Occupy Movement. We also hear m... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 07/23/12

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Just Banking, Queer Justice Bill Resnick talks with attorney, author, and president of the Public Banking Institute Ellen Brown about alternative public and community banking, radical banks devoted to investing in worker cooperatives, all to replace the predatory too b... Read more

Tribulations of TriMet

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2012 at 12:00am

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Bill Resnick talks with Don McIntosh, reporter for Northwest Labor Press, about TriMet, the health impact of driving a bus, the need for public transportation, and the possibility of raising the payroll tax that provides funding for public transportation. Read more

neoliberalism and queer resistance

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2012 at 12:00am

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Frann Michel reads comments on neoliberalism from two essays from The Scholar and Feminist Online: Robert McRuer on Cripping Queer Politics and Lisa Duggan on After Neoliberalism. Read more

Ellen Brown on Public Banking

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2012 at 12:00am

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Bill Resnick talks with attorney, author, and founder of The Public Banking Institute Ellen H. Brown about examples of public and cooperative banking, including the State Bank of North Dakota, value-based banking, local German banks, cooperative banking in Japan, the S... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 23, 2012

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2012 at 12:00am

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Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode features Bill Resnick talking with Don McIntosh about Trimet and with Ellen Brown about Public Banking, as well as Denise Morris talking with Catherine Sameh about the Scholar and Feminist Online. Music by Django Reinhardt. Bill Re... Read more

Scholar and Feminist Catherine Sameh

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2012 at 12:00am

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Denise Morris talks with founding mole Catherine Sameh, co-founder of In Other Words and currently Associate Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and managing editor of The Scholar & Feminist Online. They discuss social justice feminism, the history ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 07/16/12

Airs at: Mon, 07/16/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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On Monday’s (July 16) Old Mole Variety Hour: Bill Resnick speaks with Arne Jungjohan, a senior advisor for energy of the German Green Party and Director for the Environment and Global Dialogue Program of the Boell Foundation. They discuss the achievements of German comm... Read more