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Old Mole Variety Hour
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, broadly socialist, and feminist. (We count Karl Marx as a friend).
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Our theme "Mole in the Ground" is by Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1924), somtimes blended with a new version by dj/rupture, sung by Sindhu Zagoren. It's on the album Special Gunpowder.
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Confronting the Climate Crisis
What could be done to bring energy production into line with the survival of life on this planet? This is both a political and a technology question, and both are discussed here by Janet Redman and the Old Mole's Bill Resnick. Redman is with the Institute for Policy Studies where she is co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network.
- Title: Waking up to Climate Change
- Album: Jan. 30, 2012
- Length: 17:14 minutes (9.87 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 80Kbps (CBR)
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Movie Moles: "Capitalism Is the Crisis"
Featuring Chris Hedges and many others, the new film Capitalism Is the Crisis argues forcefully that the current financial crisis is not just a temporary glitch in capitalism, but is part of the way the system works. Movie Moles Frann Michel and Jan Haaken lay out the film's argument. But they also explain some of what the movie fails to explain about the history of capitalism and what it will take to end it. The film can be viewed on line here.
- Title: Movie Moles: Capitalism Is the Crisis
- Album: Jan. 30, 2012
- Length: 14:46 minutes (8.45 MB)
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Laurie Mercier is our host on this show dealing with climate change, renewable energy, and capitalism.
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3. Movie Moles Frann Michel and Jan Haaken discuss the documentary Capitalism Is the Crisis.
- Title: OMV1.30.2012
- Album: Jan. 30, 2012
- Length: 54:21 minutes (31.1 MB)
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Action on Climate Change in Oregon
Two local activists on climate and energy talk about what's going on in Portland and elswhere in Oregon around these issues. Noah Hochman is part of Rising Tide of Portland and of Occupy Portland. John Roschke is with Oregonians for a Renewable Energy Program.
- Title: Portland & Climate Change
- Album: Jan. 30, 2012
- Length: 14:58 minutes (8.57 MB)
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Denise Morris is our host on a show about the Republican battle over capitalism, a made-up story about multiple personalities that passed for reality, the history and future of the abortion issue, and remembering civil disobedience against segregation in the 1960s.
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- Title: OMV1.23.2012
- Album: Jan. 23, 2012
- Length: 57:01 minutes (32.63 MB)
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The New Debate About Capitalism
Accusations of "vulture capitalism" and corporate lobbying are flying among the Republican candidates for president. The Old Mole's Bill Resnick talks with economist Arthur MacEwan about what this new moment in public discourse might mean. MacEwan is the co-author of Economic Collapse, Economic Change: Getting to the Roots of the Crisis and writes regularly for Dollars & Sense.
- Title: The New Debate about Capitalism
- Album: Jan. 23, 2012
- Length: 19:32 minutes (11.18 MB)
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Sybil Exposed
The book Sybil, published in 1973, purported to be the true story of a woman with multiple personalities acting independently of one another. It was later exposed as a hoax. In Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case, Debbie Nathan tells how the story was created and sold. She talks here with the Old Mole's Jan Haaken.
- Title: Sybil Exposed
- Album: Jan. 23, 2012
- Length: 11:47 minutes (6.74 MB)
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Beyond Roe V Wade
Roe v. Wade established a woman's right to an abortion, but did nothing to ensure that the service was available. Jan Haaken reviews the history of abortion and abortion law and argues for more access.
- Title: Rov v. Wade
- Album: Jan. 23, 2012
- Length: 7:36 minutes (4.35 MB)
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Remembering the Freedom Riders
Faye Powell lived in Georgia in the 1960s and participated in picketting and sit-ins against segregation. She talks here with Denise Morris about her experiences, and they discuss the film Freedom Riders which will be shown at In Other Words Women's Bookstore on Tuesday, January 24 at 7:00 pm.
- Title: Movie: Freedom Riders
- Album: Jan. 23, 2012
- Length: 12:55 minutes (7.39 MB)
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Bill Resnick and Malik Miah
Bill Resnick talks with Malik Miah about the Occupy movement, how race figures into the economic crisis, mobilizing in the black community and what the Occupy movement could learn from their history of organizing against the 1%.
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commentary transcripts
It's convenient to have the Old Mole audio files available.
Even more useful for some of us would be transcripts of the commentaries (Clayton Morgareidge). Written material allows a person a chance to review, consider, digest and refer to mentioned references & thinkers. The "Well Read Red" commentary from 4 Aug 08 is a good example of a piece I'd like to read at my own pace.
These folks are so profound
These folks are so profound and fascinating, especially the Resnick guy. Wow!
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Avatar's Jake Sully is ---- Tarzan - - -
A great review I've seen on Avatar (and how the soldier will save the people):
http://www.progressive.org/mp/danto010510.html
There is a link from there that exposes Cameron's plot as a mirror of Pocahontas, amazing parallel! http://failblog.org/2010/01/10/avatar-plot-fail/
Since watching Avatar, I have viewed older videos on DVD and would rate that ahead of Avatar.
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