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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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The Old MoleVariety Hour for May 16, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 05/16/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Denise Morris hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick and Mark Weisbrot discuss how right wing parties and the business apparatus are trying to destabilize Brazil. Laurie Mercier speaks with Ron Verzuh Oregon Vice President of the Pacific NW Labor History Association (PNLHA). ... Read more

Voting No Confidence

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2016 at 9:45am - 10:00am
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      Frann Michel reports on faculty votes of no confidence at the University of Wisconsin and many other places, and some of the issues to which these votes are responding.   Just as workers have risen up to demand fifteen dollars an hour and a union, just as re... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 9

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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        Today on the Old Mole: - Historian David Horowitz discusses the Works Progress Administration, chief public employment program during the 1930s Great Depression. While the WPA had a class bias, much  of its great work was designed and performed by ordinary... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 05/02/16

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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The Old Mole Variety Hour for May 2, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Bill Resnick Hosts this membership drive episode and we hear: Jan Haaken talks with psychoanalyst Laura Esikoff about how counterposing psychological and political causes of mental health problems is a false dichotomy Bill talks with Tomas Moniz - author of the blog an... Read more

Book Mole: Lies and Other Acts of Love

Airs at: Mon, 04/25/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Is the complete, unvarnished truth always essential to happy/successful partnerships and families, or do small omissions and/or white lies sometimes play an essential role in even the best of families?  This and other questions are taken up in Kristy Woodson Harvey’s ... Read more

1960 Documentary Primary

Airs at: Mon, 04/25/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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    Denise Morris revisits Robert Drew’s 1960 cinema verite /direct cinema documentary film Primary,  the Bern/Hiliary campaign, and objectivity in reporting. Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for April 25, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 04/25/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Bill Resnick talks with Steve Bloom about poetry and the 99%    Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Kristy Woodson Harvey’s  Lies and Other Acts of Love.   Denise Morris revisits the 1960 documentary film Primary in light of current campaigning and reporting   we're o... Read more

Radical Poet Steve Bloom

Airs at: Mon, 04/25/2016 at 9:00am - 9:15am
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    On the Old Mole Variety Hour, Bill Resnick talks to Steve Bloom, a worker, a poet, a Marxist intellectual who never entered the academy. In his writings, Steve Bloom has been discussing the sea-change in U.S. political consciousness, such that people discuss the 99... Read more

About Bombing ISIS

Airs at: Mon, 04/11/2016 at 9:30am
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Clayton Morgareidge reads from and summarizes a piece by Greg Shupack in Jacobin Magazine arguing that further bombing of ISIS held territory in Iraq and Syria only serves to recruit more ISIS fighters willing to carry out terrorist attacks. Read more