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).

Here is why we call this show "The Old Mole"

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 Our theme "Mole in the Ground" is by Bascom Lamar Lunsford  (1924), somtimes blended with a newer versions, like the one  by dj/rupture, sung by Sindhu Zagoren.  It's on the album Special Gunpowder. 

Our graphic lettering is  by Charlie Ertola.

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

 

Hosted by

Bill Resnick
Clayton Morgareidge
Denise Morris
Frann Michel
Laurie Mercier
Tom Becker
Joe Clement
Larry Bowlden
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Episode Archive

Old Mole Variety Hour on 12/19/11

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Mon, 12/19/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Report on the Occupy Movement; Myths and Realities of the Food Industry

Clayton Morgareidge will host this episode of the Mole, on which

Old Mole Variety Hour on 12/05/11

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Mon, 12/05/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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international climate change, occupy production, homeless women & Occupy, capitalism w/o capitalists

 

Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and we hear:

Old Mole Variety Hour on 11/28/11

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Mon, 11/28/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Occupational democracy, corporate personhood, and J. Edgar

 

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Mole in which

Old Mole Variety Hour on 11/07/11

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Mon, 11/07/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Deficit commission, Left & the Law:right to assembly, movie moles: They Live, mentally ill occupiers

Joe Clement hosts and we hear:

Old Mole Variety Hour on 10/31/11

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Mon, 10/31/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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General Strike in Oakland, and where Halloween comes from

Tom Becker is our host, and we will hear

Old Mole Variety Hour on 10/03/11

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Mon, 10/03/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Occupy Portland, Union civil war, mental health reform, death row music

Joe Clement hosts and we hear:

Old Mole Variety Hour on 09/05/11

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Mon, 09/05/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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working-class environmental movement, verizon strike, unpaid work & economic justice, Left & the Law

On this special Labor Day episode Joe Clement hosts and we hear:

Old Mole Variety Hour on 08/15/11

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Mon, 08/15/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes, riots in London and Israel, music of riots, prison reform

On the next Old Mole, Denise Morris hosts and we hear:

  • Bill Resnick interview Lance Tapley about prison reform
  • Movie Moles, Joe Clement and Frann Michel, talk about Rise of the Planet of the Apes
  • Bill comments on the uprisings in Israel and England
  • Radical Musicologists, Josh Wise and Brad Duncan, discuss the music of and surrounding riots and uprisings, samples of which we'll hear through out the show

Old Mole Variety Hour on 08/08/11

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Mon, 08/08/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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taxing wealth, book mole, movie moles review If A Tree Falls, left press

On the next Old Mole, Tom Becker hosts and we hear:

  • Bill Resnick talks with Sam Pizzigati about how the rich do not invest like conservatives ideologues say that they will if only we give them tax breaks, and how we need to tax their wealth, not just their income.
  • Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Sheila Kohler's "Love Child."
  • Movie Moles, Jan Haaken and Wendy Webb, review If A Tree Falls, a documentary about the Earth Liberation Front, a group made notorious by their retaliation against polluters and environmental exploiters.
  • Tom Becker reads from the Left Press.

Old Mole Variety Hour on 08/01/11

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Mon, 08/01/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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debt ceiling, economic democracy, austerity and music of the IWW

 

On the next Old Mole, Joe Clement hosts and we hear:

  • Bill Resnick and Marty Hart Landsberg talk about the debt-ceiling and how it will affect working people.
  • Joe and Josh Eidelson talk about economic democracy
  • Frann Michel talks about austerity measures and Dennis Kucinich offers his own plan to avoid them and get out of debt.
  • Music of the Industrial Workers of the World

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UnFairTest: Monty Neill on Problems with High-Stakes Testing

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Mon, 12/17/2012

Bill Resnick talks with Monty Neill of FairTest about how high-stakes standardized testing undermines real learning and discourages critical and creative thinking. They discuss more reliable, collaborative, and contextually-sensitive ways of evaluating teachers and student learning.

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Portland Teachers reject High-Stakes Testing: Gwen Sullivan of PAT

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Mon, 12/17/2012

Bill Resnick talks with Portland Association of Teachers president Gwen Sullivan about why Portland Public Schools turned down federal grant money. Although it might have provided funding for further professional development for reading teachers, the one-time grant could not be used to reduce class size, and came with requirements for high-stakes standardized testing with no attention to individual contexts.

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The Left and the Law: History & Conversations on Oregon's Death Penalty

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Mon, 12/17/2012

The Left & the Law: Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker discuss Governor Kitzhaber's "conversations" about the death penalty following his issuing a stay of execution for convicted murderer Gary Haugen. Jan and Mike discuss the shifts in attitudes toward capital punishment, which Oregon voters abolished in 1964 and reinstated in 1984.

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Civil Rights and Rock 'n' Roll: Radical Musicology with Brad Duncan

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Mon, 12/17/2012

Joe Clement and Brad Duncan discuss the shared roots of Rock n Roll and the Civil Rights movement in the deep South and in the mid-to-late 1950s. Segregationists feared the cultural race mixing they saw when Rhythm & Blues broke out of the black community and was rebranded as Rock n Roll for a mixed audience of young people in the post-war era.

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comments on young white men with guns

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Mon, 12/17/2012

Frann Michel offers some comments on recent gun violence, with links here.

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Old Mole Variety Hour December 17, 2012

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Mon, 12/17/2012

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This show considers schools, killing, killlings in schools, and civil rights and rock & roll. Hosted by Frann Michel, with music by Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and more. For information on our graphics, theme song, or name, see our main show page. 

Frann Michel comments on the latest school shootings.

Bill Resnick talks with Monty Neill of FairTest.org

Bill Resnick Talks wih Gwen Sullivan of the Portland Association of Teachers

The Left and the Law: Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker discuss Oregon's conversations on the death penalty

Brad Duncan and Joe Clement discuss the shared roots of Rock & Roll and the Civil Rights movement

To hear individual segments, use the links above; to hear the whole show, click below.

 

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Prospects for Egypt

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Mon, 12/10/2012

 Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with middle-east expert Stephen Zunes about the forces struggling for the future of Egypt as the political turmoil there continues.  What are the prospects for a genuinely democratic society? Bill and Stephen discuss the roles of the Muslim Brotherhood, the military, and secular groups on the left.  Zunes teaches at the University of San Francisco and is the author of Tinderbox: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Roots of Terrorism.

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Book Mole: "When Nietzsche Wept"

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Mon, 12/10/2012

"History is fiction that did happen; fiction is history that might have happened."  This thought guided the author of When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession, Irvin D. Yalom, as he imagines an encounter between the iconoclastic philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in 19th Century Vienna. Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews it for us.  

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Self-preservation in Times of Oppression

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Mon, 12/10/2012

 Fabian Romero, queer Chicano poet, performance artist and community organizer, helped to found several writing and performance groups including Hijas de Su Madre, Las Mamalogues and Mixed Messages:
Stories by People of Color.  Here he talks with the Old Mole's Joe Clement about a workshop "Self-preservation in Times of Oppression" that he will be facilitating at In Other Words, 14 NE Killingsworth, Portland, on Saturday, December 15.   This self-reflective workshop is meant to address everyday struggles that can accumulate and result in burn out.  For more information, click here.  

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Studs Terkel, the FBI and HUAC

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Mon, 12/10/2012

 In the 1950s, Studs Terkel was confronted for his leftist sympathies by the FBI and the notorious House Unamerican Activities Committee.  Commemorating the centenary of Studs Terkel's birth, Old Mole Alan Wieder recalls some of that history as our nation is again obsessed with national security.  This segment concludes with a song about Studs sung by John Langford at a celebration of Studs's 100th birthday in May.  

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Comments

podcast

Submitted by troutdaleindependent on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 8:17am.

Hi, when will the August 13th podcast be posted? 

Avatar's Jake Sully is ---- Tarzan - - -

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 12:43am.

 

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

Submitted by KBOO (not verified) on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 10:57am.

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

Submitted by Clayton Morgareidge on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 6:41pm.
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

Submitted by Joe (not verified) on Sat, 07/26/2008 - 2:23pm.

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

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