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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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"After the Revolution" -- Theater Review

Airs at: Mon, 05/12/2014 at 12:00am
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"After the Revolution," a play by Amy Herzog and directed by Tamara Fisch, is now playing at the Portland Playhouse through June 1.  It shows the differences between the generations in a family of radical leftists.  Norm Diamond and Bill Resnick saw it and give us this g... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 12, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 05/12/2014 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick is our host for this Membership Drive edition of the Old Mole, and it features: 1.  A conversation with Jeremy Brecher about the new and updated edition of his classic book Strike! 2.  Analysis by Well-read Red Frann Michel of Portland Ballot measure 126-56 ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour May 5 2014

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Joe Clement hosts this membership drive special and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with Arun Gupta about his recent article for the Socialist Register, "The Wal-Mart Working-Class". Subscriptions to the Socialist Register will be available as gifts to new and renewing mem... Read more

Arun Gupta on The Walmart Working-Class

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick talks with Arun Gupta about an article Arun wrote for The Socialist Register about "the Walmart working-class". They discuss the difficulties that both workers face in the low-wage service economy face trying to organize and that unions face in trying to org... Read more

Defending Participatory Democracy As A Socialist Value Against Left Authoritarianism

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 12:00am
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Joe Clement reads excerpts from an article by Gabriel Levy called "We Need Zizek's 'Thatcher of the Left' Like A Fish Needs A Bicycle". Written not long after Margaret Thatcher died in 2013, Gabriel is responding to the very popular (though maybe unknown to you) philosoph... Read more

Remembering Paul Robeson Senior & Junior

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 12:00am
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Laurie Mercier remembers the life and work of Paul Robeson Junior, an activist and archivist, but also the son of world-famous black-listed radical singer Paul Robeson Senior. She looks at how Robeson Senior influenced Robeson Junior, but also how Robeson Junior. She rea... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour May 5 2014

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 12:00am
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Joe Clement hosts (and Kate Welch engineers) this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour (foreshortened because of membership-drive). We hear about socialist feminism for revolutionary change in the 21st Century, organizing within what Arun Gupta calls "the Walmart working-... Read more

Johanna Brenner on Revolutionary Socialist Feminism for the 21st Century

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 12:00am
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Frann Michel reads from an article written by Johanna Brenner for the webzine of Solidarity-US. Brenner starts by arguing that "Socialist-feminists start where most feminists begin: the emancipation of women must come from women ourselves, but cannot be achieved by ourse... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 28

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Tom Becker hosts this show, and this is what we will hear: On the Left and the Law, Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken talk about the new chapter of the Innocence Project forming in Oregon. The Innocence Project takes up cases of wrongful conviction. Joe Clement intervi... Read more

the Left and the Law: the Innocence Project

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 12:00am
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Jan Haaken and Mike Snediker discuss the Innocence Project which seeks to free those wrongfully convicted of crimes. They discuss the development of DNA technology that made it possible to discover the large numbers of wrongful convictions, and the reasons for those man... Read more