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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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Confronting the Climate Crisis

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Mon, 01/30/2012

 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

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Movie Moles: "Capitalism Is the Crisis"

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Mon, 01/30/2012

 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.  

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 01/30/2012

Laurie Mercier is our host on this show dealing with climate change, renewable energy, and capitalism.

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1.  Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with Janet Redman about what is, and is not, going on nationally and internationally to confrot climate change.

2.  Two local activists talk with Bill about poltics, protests, and policies in Oregon about clean energy.

3.  Movie Moles Frann Michel and Jan Haaken discuss the documentary Capitalism Is the Crisis.

 

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Action on Climate Change in Oregon

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Mon, 01/30/2012

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.

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 01/23/2012

 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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The New Debate About Capitalism

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Mon, 01/23/2012

 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.

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Sybil Exposed

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Mon, 01/23/2012

 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.  

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Beyond Roe V Wade

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Mon, 01/23/2012

 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.

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Remembering the Freedom Riders

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Mon, 01/23/2012

 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.  

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Bill Resnick and Malik Miah

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Mon, 01/16/2012

 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%.

 
Malik Mia is an airplane mechanic, but also one of the editors of Against the Current, a writer for GreenLeft Weekly, and a long-time civil rights and union activist.
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Comments

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.

 

mel

 

 

 

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.

transcripts

We will see to it that this happens whenever there is a prepared text. Thanks for the suggestion. Clayton Morgareidge The Old Mole Variety Hour

These folks are so profound

These folks are so profound and fascinating, especially the Resnick guy. Wow!

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