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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Gwen Sullivan on high-stakes testing
Bill Resnick talks with Gwen Sullivan, president of the Portland Association of Teachers, about high-stakes testing. She speaks about the resistance to it we see organizing around the country, and argues this is a fight for and not against education.
- Length: 8:41 minutes (7.96 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
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The End of San Francisco
Denise Morris talks with past Old Mole guest Matilda Bernstein Sycamore about her new book, The End of San Francisco. Described as part memoir, part social history, part elegy - The End of San Francisco explores the dream of a radical queer community and the mythical city that was supposed to nurture it.
Matilda Bernstein Sycamore is a Seattle-based author and activist. She has written two novels, Including So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, and is the editor of several non-fiction anthologies most recently Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform.
- Length: 11:35 minutes (10.61 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
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Old Mole Variety Hour April 1st 2013
Joe Clement hosts this membership-drive special and we hear:
- Joe interview Daniel Gross, co-author of "Labor Law for the Rank and Filer"
- Bill Resnick talks with Gwen Sullivan of the Portland Association of Teachers about high-stakes testing
- Denise Morris talks with Matilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of "The End of San Francisco".
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- Title: OldMoleApril1st2013
- Length: 35:56 minutes (32.9 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
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Resnick & McChesney on Digital Disconnect
Bill Resnick talks with Robert McChesney about his recent book Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy and the issues it addresses. They discuss how media that began with great possibilities for democratization have been taken over by large corporations, and the ways that unregulated monopoly leads to worsening infrastructure. They consider the importance of net neutrality, the crisis in journalism, and the need for journalism to be treated as a public good. McChesney points to FreePress as one organization working on these issues.
- Title: omvh25mar2013
- Length: 37:54 minutes (17.35 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
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A Place at the Table: movie moles review
Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss the documentary A Place at the Table, currently playing in Portland at the Hollywood Theatre, about the serious problem of food insecurity. The film makes vivid the struggles of some of the 50 million Americans who are food insecure, but provides an incomplete analysis. Although it dispels some myths (e.g., that hungry people will be skinny) it also perpetuates others (e.g., that fat is inherently unhealthy, that this issue mainly affects women of color).
- Artist: omvh
- Title: movie moles
- Album: 25 mar 2013
- Year: 2013
- Length: 10:19 minutes (4.72 MB)
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Black Power and Soul Music
Clayton Morgareidge talks with radical musicologist Brad Duncan about Black Power as the radicalizing of what had been the more integrationist civil rights movement, and about the roots of soul music in gospel and R&B. They discuss the role of music in preserving cultural memory of the Black Power movement, the time it took for the mainstream corporate music industry to accept musicians performing politically radical music, and the courage and importance of Nina Simone.
- Artist: omvh
- Title: BlackPower music
- Album: 25 mar 2013
- Year: 2013
- Length: 7:45 minutes (3.55 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
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Old Mole Variety Hour 25 March 2013
Clayton Morgareidge hosts and talks with Radical Musicologist Brad Duncan about Black Power and Soul music; Bill Resnick talks with media analyst Robert McChesney about the dangers corporate internet monopolies pose for democracy; and movie moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel review the documentary A Place at the Table about food insecurity in the USA.
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Clayton talks with Radical Musicologist Brad Duncan about Soul music and Black Power
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- Title: omvh25mar2013
- Length: 37:54 minutes (17.35 MB)
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Washington Budget Proposals
Three budgets for the Federal Government are being proposed by Republicans and Democrats in Congress. Ellen Frank, a University of Massachussetts economist who writes for Dollars and Sense, talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the values behind each of them and what their impact would be.
- Title: Three Budget Proposals
- Album: March 18, 2013
- Length: 17:17 minutes (9.89 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 80Kbps (CBR)
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When Can Your Government Kill You?
In the course of confirmation hearings for John Brennan as director of the CIA, the question was posed, "Can the President order the killing of an American citizen on US soil?" In this commentary, Clayton Morgareidge reads from two recent articles about Rand Paul's filibuster of the Brennan nomination, asking how did such a question become a serious one, and whether the Democrats should have supported Paul.
Thje two articles are "The Submissive, Indifferent Democrats" by Falguni A. Sheth, and "Rand Paul's Wrong on Drones -- Just Like Everything Else," by Joshua Holland.
- Title: When Can Your Government Kill You?
- Album: March 18, 2013
- Length: 8:08 minutes (4.65 MB)
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The Violence Against Women Act
Iven Hale reads this piece by Gyassi Ross from Indian Country Media Network about how rape impacts Native American women and political opposition to extending the Violence Against Women Act.
- Title: Violence Against Women Act
- Album: March 18, 2013
- Length: 8:28 minutes (4.84 MB)
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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.
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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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