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Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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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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Stephen Zunes on Egypt

Airs at: Mon, 02/14/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
What are the prospects for realizing the goals of the Egyptian revolutionaries as the military takes over?  What will the people need to do to make sure the old order is not re-established with only cosmetic changes?   Stephen Zunes has published widely on the Middle Eas... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 02/07/11

Airs at: Mon, 02/07/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Joe Clement hosts on Monday the 7th and we'll hear: Bill Resnick continues last week's talk with  Bashir Abu-Manneh about  the popular forces contesting for power in Egypt; the US effort to maintain "stability"; the way US elites understand "democracy" and ... Read more

Bill Resnick and Bashir Abu-Manneh on Egypt

Airs at: Mon, 02/07/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill and Bashir pick up from last week's discussion and talk about how the surrounding region and global community is reacting to the Egyptian uprising. Bashir Abu-Manneh is an Assistant Professor of English at Barnard College. He focuses on global literature, Palastinian... Read more

Why Fear the Arab Revolutionary Spirit?

Airs at: Mon, 02/07/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
After the uprisings in Tunis and then Egypt, many commentators were hesitant to embrace the as democratic. In The Guardian, Slavoj Zizek calls out this hesitation and the sometimes racist rationale that backs it up as hypocrisy. What's going on in Egypt IS democracy, as ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 7th

Airs at: Mon, 02/07/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Today's Old Mole, hosted by Joe Clement shown to the left, features an ongoing discussion about the Egyptian revolution, a review of the film Biutiful, an article about the revolutionary arab spirit, and the almost forgotten women of blues and the jazz historian who re... Read more

Rosetta Reitz and the lost Women of Blues

Airs at: Mon, 02/07/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 The women we heard on the show and linked below were all but lost until Rosetta Reitz, a feminist and jazz historian, started the record-label Rosetta Records. Brad talks about how the self-image of Blues as a male-dominated genre was shook up in 1979 when Rosetta re-re... Read more

In Other Words in Portlandia

Airs at: Mon, 01/31/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In Other Words is the only surviving non-profit feminist bookstore in the US, and it was recently featured in the IFC TV series Portlandia.  Here the Old Mole's Jan Haaken talks with Nora Barnett, a member of the In Other Words Board about how the store was portrayed and... Read more

What's Happening in Egypt?

Airs at: Mon, 01/31/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 What's happening in Egypt these days -- and in Tunisia -- is huge.  What are the forces that are rising up, and what kind of new government will emerge?  Palestinian scholar Bashir Abu-Manneh of Barnard College, who has written on Middle Eastern issues in Z-Space and el... Read more

Festival of African Films

Airs at: Mon, 01/31/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 The 21st Annual Festival of African Films begins this Friday and continues for a month at several venues in Portland.  P.C. Peri of the program committee, in conversation with Jan Haaken,  previews the festival, which is free to everyone.   Read more

January 31 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 01/31/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this Membership Drive episode of the Old Mole which includes discussions of what's ahead for the revolutionary events in Egypt; how Portland's feminist bookstore In Other Words featured in the TV series Portlandia; and the coming Festival of  ... Read more