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Book Mole: "The Enchanted"

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden previews a soon-to-be-published novel by Portland writer Rene Denfeld.  It's called The Enchanted, and it takes place on death row.  It's a sad, yet courageous book, full of superb writing.   More of Larry's reviews are here.   Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 6 January 2014

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The first Old Mole Variety Hour of 2014 looks back at histories of struggle and forward to the end of alienation. Joe Clement hosts, and we hear segments on class struggle in labor and party politics, anti-capitalist activism in Mexico and globally, the revolutionary ref... Read more

Yasmin Nair on the Trouble with Hate Crimes Law

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair of Against Equality about the ten years since the murder of Brandon Teena, and about how hate crimes legislation can result in increased surveillance and punishment of the very marginlized communities it is ostensibly meant to protec... Read more

Movie Moles: 12 Years a Slave

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel and her guest, Lynn MaKau, review the film "12 Years A Slave". Directed by Steve McQueen, John Ridley's screenplay adapts Solomon Northrup's own 1853 account of being deceived and captured by slavers while living as a free-born African in upstate New York. N... Read more

Movie Moles: 12 Years a Slave

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel and her guest, Lynn MaKau, review the film "12 Years A Slave". Directed by Steve McQueen, John Ridley's screenplay adapts Solomon Northrup's own 1853 account of being deceived and capture by slavers while living as a free-born African in upstate New York. No... Read more

In Depth: Alan Wieder on Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

Airs at: Thu, 12/05/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO's Jenn Chavez interviews Alan Wieder, author of "Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid" about Nelson Mandela and his role in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Read more

Nelson Mandela Dies

Airs at: Thu, 12/05/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid leader and first president of modern, democratic South Africa, died today at age 95.  Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 4, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2013 at 12:00am
  Joe Clement hosts this show which deals with the global US national security state; the successful outcomes of the California prison system hunger strike, labor struggles in a Star Trek ("Deep Space Nine") episode; and the recent movie Hope Springs. To hear the whole ... Read more

Left & The Law: Prison Hunger Strike Success

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Inmates in California's high security prisons went on a well-organized hunger strike last summer to protest the massive use of solitary confinement, as The Left & the Law reported in July.  Today Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken discuss the several positive outcomes of that ... Read more

The Global/US National Security State

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
We are being reminded daily these days of the size and scope of US power around the world: seven or eight hundred military bases, surveillance of everyone everywhere, and air strikes anywhere from drones in the sky.  Here Bill Resnick and Bill Smalldone discuss the conti... Read more