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).

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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.

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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 07/18/11

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Mon, 07/18/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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The latest from Wisconsin; Running for Teamster President; Future of the Tea Party

Laurie Mercier will host this show which includes these topics:

Old Mole Variety Hour on 07/04/11

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Mon, 07/04/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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welfare & the working poor, cutting food-stamps, Church sex-abuse, the American Dream

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

Old Mole Variety Hour on 06/27/11

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Mon, 06/27/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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church sex-abuse, public not private goods, movie moles: tree of life, reading from the left press

 

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

Old Mole Variety Hour on 06/20/11

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Mon, 06/20/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Drone warfare, Movie Moles:The Beginners, Book Review: The Bad Girl, Radical Musicology: Ewan McColl

 

On the next Old Mole, Laurie Mercier hosts, and we hear:

Old Mole Variety Hour on 06/06/11

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Mon, 06/06/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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War on Drugs, Medicare for All, relating to animal exploitation, Left press

On the next Old Mole, Joe Clement hosts and we hear about:
  • The War on Drugs, the costs of its failure to everyone, and alternatives.
  • Laurie Mercier talks with Dr. Garrett Adams, president of Physicians for a National Health Plan, about the threatened cuts to Medicare and continued need to expand an improved version to everyone.
  • Well Read Red, Frann Michel, looks at the way animals resist human exploitation and how they relate to our experiences of resistance to exploitation.
  • Tom Becker reads from the Left press.

Old Mole Variety Hour on 05/02/11

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Mon, 05/02/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Alternatives to cuts in Oregon budget, Islamophobia and Islamic feminism, Left and the Law

On the next Old Mole. Joe Clement Hosts and we hear about:

  • An Interview: alternatives to cuts in the Oregon budget
  • A Well Read Red: Islamophobia and Islamic feminism
  • Another installment of The Left and the Law: Troy Davis and the death penalty

Old Mole Variety Hour on 04/04/11

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Mon, 04/04/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Mildred Pierce, Left press, Sucker Punch

On next Monday's Old Mole, Joe Clement hosts and we hear:

  • Bill Resnick conducts an interview.
  • Frann Michel and Jan Haaken review HBO's "Mildred Pierce."
  • Tom Becker reads a piece from the Left press.
  • Joe and Wendy Webb review Zach Snyder's new film, "Sucker Punch."

Old Mole Variety Hour on 03/21/11

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Mon, 03/21/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Nuclear power and Japan, a Vietnamese action movie, and unemployment

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show which looks into--

  • Nuclear power and the disaster in Japan (a Bill Resnick interview)
  • The new Vietnamese action movie Clash (Our Movie Moles report)
  • Why full employment is never on the table (by Well-read Red Clayton Morgareidge)

Old Mole Variety Hour on 03/07/11

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Mon, 03/07/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Teachers' struggle, war on women, DOMA repeal and single-payer in Oregon

 

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

Old Mole Variety Hour on 02/07/11

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Mon, 02/07/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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More on Egypt, Review of Buitiful, the Left press and the women of blues and jazz.

 

Joe Clement hosts on Monday the 7th and we'll hear:

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Gwen Sullivan on high-stakes testing

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Mon, 04/01/2013

Bill Resnick talks with Gwen Sullivan, president of the Portland Association of Teachers, about high-stakes testing. She speaks about the resistance to it we see organizing around the country, and argues this is a fight for and not against education.

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The End of San Francisco

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Mon, 04/01/2013

Denise Morris talks with past Old Mole guest Matilda Bernstein Sycamore about her new book, The End of San Francisco. Described as part memoir, part social history, part elegy - The End of San Francisco explores the dream of a radical queer community and the mythical city that was supposed to nurture it.

Matilda Bernstein Sycamore is a Seattle-based author and activist. She has written two novels, Including So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, and is the editor of several non-fiction anthologies most recently Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform.

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Old Mole Variety Hour April 1st 2013

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Mon, 04/01/2013

Joe Clement hosts this membership-drive special and we hear:

 

 

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Resnick & McChesney on Digital Disconnect

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Mon, 03/25/2013

Bill Resnick talks with Robert McChesney about his recent book Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy and the issues it addresses. They discuss how media that began with great possibilities for democratization have been taken over by large corporations, and the ways that unregulated monopoly leads to worsening infrastructure. They consider the importance of net neutrality, the crisis in journalism, and the need for journalism to be treated as a public good. McChesney points to FreePress as one organization working on these issues.

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A Place at the Table: movie moles review

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Mon, 03/25/2013

Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss the documentary A Place at the Table, currently playing in Portland at the Hollywood Theatre, about the serious problem of food insecurity. The film makes vivid the struggles of some of the 50 million Americans who are food insecure, but provides an incomplete analysis. Although it dispels some myths (e.g., that hungry people will be skinny) it also perpetuates others (e.g., that fat is inherently unhealthy, that this issue mainly affects women of color).

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Black Power and Soul Music

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Mon, 03/25/2013

Clayton Morgareidge talks with radical musicologist Brad Duncan about Black Power as the radicalizing of what had been the more integrationist civil rights movement, and about the roots of soul music in gospel and R&B. They discuss the role of music in preserving cultural memory of the Black Power movement, the time it took for the mainstream corporate music industry to accept musicians performing politically radical music, and the courage and importance of Nina Simone.

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Old Mole Variety Hour 25 March 2013

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Mon, 03/25/2013

The Old Mole Variety Hour in red letters

Clayton Morgareidge hosts and talks with Radical Musicologist Brad Duncan about Black Power and Soul music; Bill Resnick talks with media analyst Robert McChesney about the dangers corporate internet monopolies pose for democracy; and movie moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel review the documentary A Place at the Table about food insecurity in the USA.

This episode is shorter than usual because it aired during KBOO's membership drive. Please join and please give to the Boo and the Mole by clicking on the tip jar in the upper right of this page (Donate $ Today!).

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Bill Resnick talks with Robert McChesney about How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

Movie Moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss the documentary A Place at the Table about food insecurity in the US

Clayton talks with Radical Musicologist Brad Duncan about Soul music and Black Power

Use the links above to hear individual segments, or click below for the whole show.

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Washington Budget Proposals

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Mon, 03/18/2013

Three budgets for the Federal Government are being proposed by Republicans and Democrats in Congress.  Ellen Frank, a University of Massachussetts economist who writes for Dollars and Sense, talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the values behind each of them and what their impact would be.  

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When Can Your Government Kill You?

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Mon, 03/18/2013

In the course of confirmation hearings for John Brennan as director of the CIA, the question was posed, "Can the President order the killing of an American citizen on US soil?"  In this commentary, Clayton Morgareidge reads from two recent articles about Rand Paul's filibuster of the Brennan nomination, asking how did such a question become a serious one, and whether the Democrats should have supported Paul.

Thje two articles are "The Submissive, Indifferent Democrats" by Falguni A. Sheth, and "Rand Paul's Wrong on Drones -- Just Like Everything Else," by Joshua Holland.

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The Violence Against Women Act

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Mon, 03/18/2013

Iven Hale reads this piece by Gyassi Ross from Indian Country Media Network about how rape impacts Native American women and political opposition to extending the Violence Against Women Act. 

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Comments

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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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