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Views, Reviews, and Interviews from a Socialist-Feminist, Anti-racist, Anti-colonial and LGBTQ-positive Perspective

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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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Old Mole Variety Hour for May 26, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 05/26/2014 at 12:00am

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Jan Haaken hosts this Memorial Day edition of the Mole in which we remember not only those who have fallen on battlefields, but those who have died from lack of access to medical care. We also hear a conversation about how good our public schools are, giving the lie to ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for 5/19/14

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Today on the Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with Justin Kertson on the campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. Larry Bowlden reviews a memoir entitled "Love and Terror on the Howling Road to Nowhere" by Poe Ballantine. Jan Haaken talks with Katie Gentile (gen TEAL... Read more

Fight for 15 in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 12:00am

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Bill Resnick talks with organizer Justin Norton-Kertson about the campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. They discuss the benefits of raising the floor for all workers and preserving social welfare spending for those unable to work, as well as the origins of... Read more

Economics Students revolt against neoclassical orthodoxy

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 12:00am

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Tom Becker reads from Pete Dolack's article,"Challenging the Ruling Economic Orthodoxy: Economics Students Begin to Revolt," about the International Student Initiative for Pluralism in Economics, demanding that schools begin teaching alternatives to neoclassical economi... Read more

Book Mole: Love and Horror in the American West

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 12:00am

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Larry Bowlden reviews Love and Terror on the Howling Road to Nowhere by Poe Ballantine, which mixes personal memoir with the mystery of his neighbor's violent death in small-town Nebraska. Read with other recent writing about the American West, Ballantine's book reveals ... Read more

Title IX and campus rape

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 12:00am

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Jan Haaken talks with Katie Gentile, Director of the Gender Studies Program at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, regarding the use of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act (which guarantees an equal right to education) to address problems of sexual assault on college ... Read more

19 May 2014 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 12:00am

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Tom Becker hosts this episode, which includes a discussion of the fight for the $15/hour minimum wage in Portland and beyond, a report on economics students around the world demanding alternatives to failed neoclassical orthodoxies, a review of a memoir of life in the We... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 12

Airs at: Mon, 05/12/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Bill Resnick hosts this show and we hear-- Jeremy Brecher talks with Bill Resnick about the "mini-revolts" of the 21st Century and the new edition of his classic book Strike! The corporate takeover of city environmental and water policies: Ballot Measure 20-156 ... Read more

A New-Old Age of Revolution

Airs at: Mon, 05/12/2014 at 12:00am

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From the labor strikes of the 19th Century to Occupy Wall Street in the 21st, ordinary people have shown they can organize and manage themselves. Jeremy Brecher's book Strike! is a classic history of these movements. Here Brecher talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnic... Read more

The Water Vote

Airs at: Mon, 05/12/2014 at 12:00am

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Portland voters are deciding on a scheme (Multnomah 26-156) to turn the water bureau over to a board separate from the City Council. Well-read Red Frann Michel lays out the flaws in this effort by large corporate water users to take control of this public resource. Pho... Read more