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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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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 Left & The Law: Kafka Comes to America

Airs at: Mon, 04/09/2012 at 12:00am

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Jan Haaken talks with attorney Mike Snedeker about Steven T. Wax's new book Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror - A Public Defender's Inside Account. Wax is the head of the Oregon Federal Public Defenders’ office and has represented prisone... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 04/09/2012 at 12:00am

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Denise Morris hosts this show on which we hear from activists working for immigrant rights and for the Spring return of Occupy Portland. We also hear a review of the 1984 John Sayles movie Brother From Another Planet and a discussion of the book Kafka Comes to America: ... Read more

Adrienne Rich, psychoanalytic feminism and motherhood

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2012 at 12:00am

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Joe Clement talks with fellow Mole Jan Haaken about the significance of Adrienne Rich's prose writing about motherhood for the feminist movement in the 1970s. Read more

Movie Moles: Finally Got The News

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2012 at 12:00am

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Laurie Mercier and Denise Morris talk about the 1970 documentary "Finally Got The News" (re-released and available to view for free online HERE), produced in association with the League for Revolutionary Black Workers. The League was wary of the film at first, worried i... Read more

Radical Musicology: Alix Dobkin

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2012 at 12:00am

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Tom Becker talks with our radical musicologist, Brad Duncan, about Alix Dobkin. They reflect on her "red-diaper" up-bringing, her recent autobiography "My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Fem... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour April 2nd

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2012 at 12:00am

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Joe Clement hosts today's Old Mole. We hear about the Treyvon Martin case, Adrienne Rich's work on motherhood, a poem by Adrienne Rich, a movie review about revolutionary black workers, and a radical musicology segment about Alix Dobkins, who we hear throughou... Read more

Adrienne Rich: Ballad of the Poverties

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2012 at 12:00am

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In honor of the late Adrienne Rich, Frann Michel reads a poem of hers called "Ballad of the Poverties". Read more

Kristian Williams on Treyvon Martin, Capitalism and the Culture of Fear

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2012 at 12:00am

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Bill Resnick talks with Kristian Williams, Portland-resident and renknown scholar of policing and police history, about the murder of Treyvon Martin. Kristian re-caps the case and those like it, but also comments on the nature of the "stand your ground" laws that have be... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 03/26/12

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and it will include: A report on student resistance to austerity measures in Greece; A look back at "The Spook Who Sat At the Door," a 1973 satirical film about black revolution; Commentary on the bour... Read more

Report On Health Care Reform

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2012 at 12:00am

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As the Supreme Court takes up "Obamacare," Andrew Riley of the Center for Intercultural Organizing talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what that law does and fail to do to improve access to health care. They also take up Governor Kitzhaber's program for Oregon... Read more