Old Mole Variety Hour

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A Program of News and Views from a socialist, feminist, anti-colonial 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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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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Democratic Energy Production

Airs at: Mon, 09/12/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick and John Farrell talk about the importance of decentralization to realizing the potential and sustainability of alternative energy sources like wind and solar. Read more

Movie Moles: On the Waterfront

Airs at: Mon, 09/12/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement and Jan Haaken talk about the classic labor-oriented film, "On the Waterfront". Starring Marlan Brando, Terry Malloy is a dockworker who struggles with his received sense of "it's every man for himself" and his conscience and sense of duty to his fellow worke... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 09/05/11

Airs at: Mon, 09/05/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
On this special Labor Day episode Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick and Daniel Randall discuss how working-class organizations can and should be the back-bone of the environmental movement. Daniel offers several examples. Joe comments on the distinctio... Read more

Left and the Law: West Memphis Three

Airs at: Mon, 09/05/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Mike Snedeker, who has written a book on the recurrance of "satanic ritual abuse" cases, talks with Jan Haaken and about the West Memphis Three was and the ways it exemplifies so much of what's broken in our judicial system: plea-bargins, hasty police invetigations and f... Read more

A Brief Commentary on Paid and Unpaid Work

Airs at: Mon, 09/05/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe briefly remarks on the biases we have for paid work and against unpaid work. He suggests we overlook the possibility for useful and needed contributions when our solutions to unemployment assume wage-labor as the only legitimate form of work we can do while still mak... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour Labor Day 2011

Airs at: Mon, 09/05/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this labor day special and we hear:   Bill Resnick Morristalks with Daniel Randall about building an independent working-class environmental movement. Joe comments on paid and unpaid work. The Left and the Law tackle the "West Memphis Three"... Read more

Verizon Strike and Beyond

Airs at: Mon, 09/05/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Speaking with Denise Morris, Mark Brenner of Director of Labor Notes talks a bit about what Labor Notes is and how it involves itself in the labor movement. They spend most of the interview talking about the relevance of 45,000 verizon workers going on strike. Mark expla... Read more

Building a Working-Class Environmental Movement

Airs at: Mon, 09/05/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Daniel Randall, a supporter of the Workers Climate Action Network and a writer for the journal "Solidarity" in England, talks with Bill Resnick about how the environment (and not just jobs or wages) is a working-class issue. Daniel starts out by offering a few examples o... Read more

Movie Moles: "The Help"

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
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 Movie Moles Frann Michel and Jan Haaken find some things to like but much to criticize in the very popular current film about black maids in the civil rights era South, The Help.  Among the critques they consider is this, from the Association of Black Women Historians: ... Read more

Who Teaches What About Coal?

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Scholastic Magazine was forced by activists led by our guest Bill Bigelow to take down its 4th grade curriculum created by the coal industry -- but this just the tip of the iceberg of corporate influence over what kids learn in school.  Old Mole Laurie Mercier talks with... Read more