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"
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.
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Audio
Assessing the Sexual Revolution
How should we assess the Sexual Revolution? Has it been a good thing? For whom? In what ways? Just what were the changes that happened in sexual morality and practices starting in the 1960s? Stanford University historian Estelle Freedman talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick. Freedman is the author of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, and many others works.
- Title: 03 What was the Sexual Revolution_
- Album: July 7, 2008
- Length: 13:55 minutes (6.37 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
Movie Moles: "D.E.B.S."
Movie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken review D.E.B.S., a lesbian-spy spoof from 2004.
- Title: 05 Movie Moles, D.E.B.S
- Album: July 7, 2008
- Length: 11:55 minutes (5.46 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
Adelina Anthony
Adelina Anthony is a Xicana-Indigena lesbian multi-disciplinary artist who has won many awards for her work addressing colonization, feminism, trauma, memory, gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, in/migration, health, land/environment, and other issues affecting the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/two-spirited communites. Luz María Gordillo talks with her about her work and her humor.
- Title: 07 Adelina Anthony
- Album: July 7, 2008
- Length: 12:28 minutes (5.71 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
The Music of Kate Reid
Kate Reid is a lesbian singer-song writer and story-teller from Canada. In this segment we hear several of her songs and she talks with Luz María Gordillo and with today's other artist-guest Adelina Anthony.
- Title: Kate Reid & Adelina Anthony
- Album: July 7, 2008
- Length: 13:49 minutes (6.33 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
Old Mole Variety Hour for July 7, 2008
Hosted by Luz María Gordillo, this show is about LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) life and culture. Bill Resnick inteviews historian Estelle Freedman about the meaning of the sexual revolution. The Movie Moles review D.E.B.S., a lesbian-spy spoof. Luz María talks with multidisciplnary artist, writer and performer Adelina Anthony. The featured music is by Kate Reid, and who is also interviewed. To hear the whole show, click on the arrow above. The hear individual segments, follow the links below:
1. Reviewing the sexual revolution with Bill Resnick and Estelle Freedman.
3. Adelina Anthony, artist, writer, peformer
4. Music and conversation with Kate Reid-- and Adelina Anthony. (This segment brings together 4 interludes of music and conversation from througout the show).
- Title: OMV 7_7_08
- Album: July 7, 2008
- Length: 56:46 minutes (25.99 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
Movie Moles: "Road to Guantanamo"
Movie Moles Denise Morris and Laurie Mercier review Road to Guantanamo, the British docudrama that follows the story of three British citizens swept up by the military while traveling in Afghanistan and sent to Guantamo prison where they were held without charges for three years before being released.
- Title: 04 Movie Review- Rd to Guantanamo
- Length: 11:34 minutes (5.3 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
McCarthyism Past & Present
Laurie Mercier interviews historian Ellen Schrecker. They compare the chilling effects of political repression on academic freedom in the 1950s and today, finding similarities and differences, both of which are disturbing. Schrecker is the author of THE AGE OF MCCARTHYISM: A BRIEF HISTORY WITH DOCUMENTS and Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. She has a more recent article on this topic in Radical Teacher.
- Title: 02 McCarthyism Then & Now
- Length: 20:04 minutes (9.19 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
Participatory Economics
Robin Hahnel talks with Old Mole Bill Resnick about new forms of democracy developing in Venezuela, including such radical arrangments as participatory budgeting. He discusses some of this in a recent article in Monthly Review.
- Title: 03 Participatory Economics
- Length: 20:32 minutes (9.4 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
Old Mole Variety Hour for June 30, 2008
Laurie Mercier hosts this program of interviews and reviews about civil rights, justice and injustice. Laurie interviews Ellen Schrecker about the assaults on academic freedom in the 1950s and how they compare with those of today. Bill Resnick talks with radical economist Robin Hahnel about participatory democracy in Venezuela. And the Movie Moles Denise Morris and Laurie Mercier review The Road to Guantanamo.
You can hear the whole show by clicking on the arrow above, or the individual pieces by following the links below:
1. Academic freedom then and now
2. Participatory democracy in Venezuela
- Title: OMV 6_30_08
- Length: 55:40 minutes (25.49 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
PDX Labor History Bike Tour
Bill Resnick talks with Bryan Johnson, a labor historian, about the bike tour of Portland sites that are part of Portland's radical labor history. It's part of Pedalpalooza.
- Title: 07 Labor History Bike Tour
- Album: June 23, 2008
- Length: 8:18 minutes (3.8 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
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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