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Movie Moles: 12 Years a Slave

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel and her guest, Lynn MaKau, review the film "12 Years A Slave". Directed by Steve McQueen, John Ridley's screenplay adapts Solomon Northrup's own 1853 account of being deceived and capture by slavers while living as a free-born African in upstate New York. North... Read more

In Depth: Alan Wieder on Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

Airs at: Thu, 12/05/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO's Jenn Chavez interviews Alan Wieder, author of "Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid" about Nelson Mandela and his role in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Read more

Nelson Mandela Dies

Airs at: Thu, 12/05/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid leader and first president of modern, democratic South Africa, died today at age 95.  Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 4, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2013 at 12:00am
  Joe Clement hosts this show which deals with the global US national security state; the successful outcomes of the California prison system hunger strike, labor struggles in a Star Trek ("Deep Space Nine") episode; and the recent movie Hope Springs. To hear the whole sho... Read more

Left & The Law: Prison Hunger Strike Success

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Inmates in California's high security prisons went on a well-organized hunger strike last summer to protest the massive use of solitary confinement, as The Left & the Law reported in July.  Today Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken discuss the several positive outcomes of that str... Read more

The Global/US National Security State

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
We are being reminded daily these days of the size and scope of US power around the world: seven or eight hundred military bases, surveillance of everyone everywhere, and air strikes anywhere from drones in the sky.  Here Bill Resnick and Bill Smalldone discuss the continui... Read more

PLEDGE DRIVE SPECIAL: Peter Pincetl & Prison Pipeline

Produced for:  Experience Points
Host Ren Green interviewed Peter Pincetl of KBOO's Prison Pipeline Collective on his experience with our Criminal Justice System, the challenges parolees face when they reintegrate into society, and what Prison Pipeline offers listeners. (Music: "Advil Confirmed" by JD Fa... Read more

The Left & The Law: Lifers

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In the US, there are 110,439 prisoners serving life sentences and 49,081 serving life without parole. Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken discuss the growing use of life sentences, why it happened, and the prospects for change in this conversation in their ongoing series The Left... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 23 September 2013

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale hosts this show, which features Bill Resnick talking with Barbara Harvey about the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement to end the Israeli occupation of PalestineMovie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discussing the documentary Free Angela and All Political P... Read more

Movie Moles on Free Angela and all political prisoners

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Movie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discuss Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, a documentary about the 1970-72 indictment and trial of the philosophy professor, communist party member, and Black activist Angela Davis, accused of complicity in a failed and fatal a... Read more