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Towards a Progressive Mental Health Policy

Airs at: Mon, 11/17/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
What  would a humane and helpful mental health program look like?  David Oaks of Mind Freedom International  talks with Old  Mole Jan Haaken about "greening the mind."  Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 11/17/2008 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
The Movie Moles discuss “Queen of Hearts,” a documentary about Darcelle’s – the nation’s oldest suriving Drag club right here in Portland.  We also hear from David Oaks who challenges the dominance of drugs and the medicalizing of madness in psychiatry.  He urges organizing... Read more

Gay Rights and Prop. 8

Airs at: Sun, 11/16/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Why did progressive California pass the anti-gay-marriage proposition?  Frann Michel and Denise  Morris explore the issues.  Read more

Show for November 17, 2008

Airs at: Sun, 11/16/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Hosted by Denise Morris, this program deals with the global economic crisis and what it would take to fix it, the broken mental health system and what it needs, and why California  voters  passed  a  ban on gay marriage.  We also hear a review  of  the documentary film abou... Read more

Reshaping the Economic World Order

Airs at: Sun, 11/16/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
What needs to be done to replace the current and collapsing economic global system with something that works for all of us?   John Cavanagh, director of the Institute for  Policy Studies, talks  with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how this crisis developed and what it wi... Read more

Movie Review: "Queens of Heart"

Airs at: Sun, 11/16/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss  Queens of Hearts, the documentary about Darcelle XV made by Jan Haaken with the help of various  Old Moles  and many others.  The film is available  from  Cinema Libre Studio. Read more

Well-read Reds do Obama

Airs at: Tue, 11/11/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris and Bill Resnick read from and summarize the left press about Obama.  They find euphoria, sobriety, and skepticism.  Read more

Remembering Studs Terkel

Airs at: Tue, 11/11/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Studs Terkel, writer and radio personality, always in support of working people, died at the age of 96 last week.   Tom Becker reads tributes to him published in The Nation.  You can find the texts here and here. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 11/10/2008 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Today the Moles  reflect  on the Obama victory: its impact on black folks and the left’s response: euphoria, high hopes, and the advice he’s  getting on health care,  unions, the environment, as well as worries about his first appointments.   We’ll also hear  a  tribute to ... Read more

Assessing Obama, Part 1

Airs at: Sun, 11/09/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
The Old Mole's Bill Resnick talks with Malik Miah, airline machinist and writer, about workers' responses to the Obama victory and what the next four years may hold for progressives.  Miah's work appears in Against the Current and  Green Left. Read more