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Views, Reviews, and Interviews from a Socialist-Feminist, Anti-racist, Anti-colonial and LGBTQ-positive Perspective

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News, Views, Reviews, and Interviews

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.

You can leave comments for the Moles at oldmolevarietyhour @ gmail.com or by clicking on the comment section for any of our audio pieces.

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The Great Recession in Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 07/05/2010 at 12:00am

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Bill Resick talks with Chuck Sheketoff of the Oregon Center for Public Policy about the great recession in Oregon and the looming cuts in social services. What can and should be done? Sheketoff is one of the founders of the OCPP where you can keep up with state issues fro... Read more

Understanding the Great Recession

Airs at: Mon, 07/05/2010 at 12:00am

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What are the most fundamental causes of the current economic crisis? Radical anthropologist David Harvey provides a lucid account of how this crisis and others are the result of capitalism’s inevitable compulsion to expand itself into a state of collapse, and argues that... Read more

Movie Moles: "Toy Story 3"

Airs at: Mon, 07/05/2010 at 12:00am

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Movie Moles Frann Michel and Jan Haaken give you the real and radical viewing of Toy Story 3: it's about the great recession, the fear of unemployment, and the fear of being tossed in the dump when you're no longer new. It even shows the way forward towards a world of coo... Read more

Privatizing the Post Office

Airs at: Mon, 06/28/2010 at 12:00am

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Services that we used to count on from the US Postal Service have been increasingly taken over by private companies such as UPS and FedEx. Jim Cook, a long time postal worker and President of the Portland branch of the Letter Carriers Union, discusses what we lose as a re... Read more

Imagining the End of Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 06/28/2010 at 12:00am

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Is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism? British blogger and theorist Mark Fisher explores this question in his book Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Old Mole blogger and theorist Frann Michel reviews and comments on his work in... Read more

Book Mole: "Union Street"

Airs at: Mon, 06/28/2010 at 12:00am

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English novelist Pat Barker is known for several novels about World War I, but Book Mole Larry Bowlden has discovered her first two books, Union Street and Blow Your House Down. They are about poor, working class, Northern English women and girls. Larry praises their artic... Read more

Community Energy

Airs at: Mon, 06/28/2010 at 12:00am

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Zaratha Young is with Transition PDX organizing Portland neighborhood committees to reduce energy use and build an environmental ethic. Bill Resnick talks with her about the work. Read all about it at their website. Read more

June 28 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 06/28/2010 at 12:00am

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Denise Morris hosts this program about the future of the US Postal Service, whether capitalism has a future, building sustainable neighborhoods in Portland, and the lives of British working class women. Event: Bushra Kaliq, General Secretary of the Pakistan Women's Worker... Read more

Prisons: Reform or Abolition?

Airs at: Mon, 06/21/2010 at 12:00am

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In this conversation from their series The Left and the Law, attorney Mike Snedeker and psychologist Jan Haaken explore the enormous economic and human costs of the prison system and some of the reasons why we continue to bear those costs. Mike and Jan earlier discussed ... Read more

Ecuador v Chevron: in Court and on Screen

Airs at: Mon, 06/21/2010 at 12:00am

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Investigative film maker Joe Berlinger talks with the Old Mole's Wendy Webb about his new film Crude. The film details the Amazon oil disaster that is the subject of the largest environmental law suit in history. Berlinger has made many award-winning documentary films. Read more

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