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Old Mole Variety Hour November 26, 2012

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein about Wal-Mart and the workers organizing against it on Black Friday.  Joe Clement introduces Utah Phillips talking & singing about blaming & dumping the bosses.  The movie moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel discuss... Read more

Revisiting Three Strikes

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads from Brent Staples's recent essay on the revision of California's Three-Strikes-and-You're Out law, which unjustly imprisoned for life many nonviolent, abused, and mentally ill and disabled people. The Three Strikes Project at Stanford Law School has bee... Read more

"Jails Fargo" report released by National People's Action Network

Airs at: Mon, 11/05/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0   After Wells Fargo divested last week from its majority share in the private prison corporation the ‘Geo Group’, new allegations have emerged showing further involvement in private prisons by Wells Fargo.  A new report by the Public Accountability Initiativ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Sun, 11/18/2012 at 12:00am
 Bill Resnick is our host for this episode of the Old Mole, and he guides us through the following segments with some brief pauses for music by regular folks.  To hear any of these pieces, click on the links below.  To hear the whole show, use the play button below.   1.  D... Read more

Prisons, Psychiatry, and Solitary

Airs at: Mon, 11/12/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 In their continuing series The Left and the Law, psychologist Jan Haaken and attorney Mike Snedeker discuss how psychological studies confirm what has been known for a long time: that solitary confinement drives people crazy.  They also discuss the extent of its use.   Read more

Of Ruth First and Joe Slovo: Let Us Now Remember Past Activists

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Alan Weider discusses the work and legacy of Ruth First and Joe Slovo, lifelong activists who fought for an end to apartheid in South Africa, and for a democratic and socialist world. Read more

Left & The Law: what's the risk in releasing Oregon's low-risk offenders?

Airs at: Mon, 10/15/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Continuing the Left and the Law, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker talk about reactions to the release of 850 low-risk offenders from Oregon State Prisons. They talk about Govenor Kitzhaber's Public Safety Commission's recommendation, how the risk of these offenders is assesse... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 15th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 10/15/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jan Haaken hosts this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour, about 20 minutes shorter because of the membership-drive. Through-out the show we hear some of the music of local hip-hop activist-artist, Mic Crenshaw. Jan mentioned his appearance at the Paid Sick Days Now rall... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 24 September 2012

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker hosts this episode and reads a selection from the work of Chris Hedges about the implications of environmental and economic collapse. Bill Resnick talks with Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau of Why Hunger? about how neoliberalism contributes to hunger and organic agric... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 27 August 2012

Airs at: Mon, 08/27/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale hosts and we hear about German socialist history, the novel Sense of an Ending, Political Aspects of Full Employment, and The Living Death of Solitary Confinement: Bill Resnick continues his Interview with Historian Bill Smaldone about the German Social Democratic... Read more