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Every Monday from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM.

A program of social and political commentary from a socialist-feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial point of view.

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, anti-capitalist, feminist, anti-colonial and anti-racist.  We count Karl Marx as a friend but are open to other voices from the left. The show includes analyses of global politics and economics, local grassroots activism, segments on the Left & the Law, and reviews of films, books, music, and theater. 

Contributors include: Julian Ankney, Larry Bowlden, Joe Clement, Norm Diamond, Kevin Foster, Jan Haaken, Desiree Hellegers, Patricia Kullberg, Luisa Martinez, Laurie Mercier, Denise Morris, Bill Resnick, Victoria Saucedo, Sophie Smith, Mike Snedecker, Roben White, Matt Witt

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Our theme song is the traditional "Mole in the Ground," sometimes performed by Clayton & Ernie, sometimes by Joe Clement,  and sometimes blended with other versions, like the one by dj/rupture, sung by Sindhu Zagoren on the album Special Gunpowder, or Blind Boy Paxton  

Our graphic lettering is by Charlie Ertola. Host portraits by Clayton Morgareidge.
 

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Movie Moles: Branded

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement and Denise Morris review the conspiratorial and at times surreal science fiction film, Branded, written and directed by Jamie Bradshaw and Alexsandr Dulerayn. Set in mostly present day post-soviet Russia, Branded is about how Misha Galkin (played by Ed Stoppard)... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour September 17th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Iven Hale hosts this show and we hear about the Chicago Teachers Strike, Cuban reform and policies, a book review of Barbara King Solver's "Lacuna" and a movie-review of Branded. Bill Resnick talks with Samuel Farber about top-down and bottom-up socialism in Cuba ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 09/10/12

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Leo Panitch about why European elites are pumping money into the finance industry and enforcing austerity on the poor. They also consider long term strategies for building working class power. Leo t... Read more

Hipsters on Food Stamps?

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Should we heap scorn on people who try to live on public assistance like food stamps while making art?  A recent article on Salon, and especially the readers' comments, indicated how strongly many working-class people feel about living well on the dole.  Here Old Mole Joe ... Read more

Eulogy for Alexander Saxton

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 The death of historian and novelist Alexander Saxton led Old Mole Tom Becker to reflections on Saxton's long life as a radical activist and historian of race and labor.  Saxton is the author of The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California a... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker hosts this show about the search for a vanished but popular musician, living shamelessly on public assistance, the demise of the European welfare state, and remembering a radical historian and activist.  To hear the whole show, use the play button below.  To hea... Read more

Movie Moles: "Searching for Sugarman"

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Old Mole Jan Haaken talks with Alan Wieder about the film "Searching for Sugar Man", now playing in Portland.  The film tells two stories: one about the US rock singer known as Rodriguez who became popular and politically influential in South Africa but forgotten in his ow... Read more

Austerity: The European Model

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Leo Panitch is a Distinguished Research Professor at York University, renowned political economist, Marxist theorist and editor of the Socialist Register.   He is the co-author, along with Sam Gindin who appeared on last week's Old Mole,  of The Making of Global Capitalism ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour Labor Day 2012

Airs at: Tue, 09/04/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  On today's special labor-day Old Mole, Laurie Mercier hosts and we hear:   Bill Resnick talk with Sam Gindin about long-term working-class strategies to resisting capitalism Laurie and Denise Morris review the 1990 documentary about the Hormel meat-packers strik... Read more

Sam Gindin on Building Working-Class Power Part 2

Airs at: Tue, 09/04/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talk with Sam Gidin in this second of a two-part interview. They consider why working class resistance during the current crisis has been insufficient to prevail over the maneuvers of the ruling apparatuses, and what’s the long term strategy/vision to build p... Read more