Old Mole Variety Hour

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Airs at: Mon, 05/20/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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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.
 

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 Tea Party in Decline?

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Richard D. Wolff, a radical economist who writes  and speaks frequently on the economic crisis, argues that the Left will soon have the opportunity to organize around popular dissatisfaction with the economy once the Tea Party loses support from the big business and the ric... Read more

Sandy Pope and the Teamsters

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Sandy Pope, a long-time member and leader of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), is  in a two-way race with James Hoffa for President of the Teamsters Union.  Here she talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what she would do for the Teamsters and the  Labor Moveme... Read more

The World of Hunger

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Why is food not reaching hungry people?  What could  be done about it?  For some clear answers to these questions, Bill Resnick talks with Christina Schiavone, Director of the Global Movements Project at WHY .  For more information on this topic, Schiavone recommends Food ... Read more

After Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 In 2002, David Scheweickart, a professor of philosophy at Loyola University, published a small and very readable book called After Capitalism.   It was a thorough critique of capitalism as a system for organizing our productive labor and the wealth it produces, and also an... Read more

A Cyborg Manifesto

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
What are the political possibilities made available by the fact that we are now all cyborgs -- hybrids of the organic and the machine?  Well-read Red Frann Michel reads from Donna Harraway's  classic socialist-feminist article "A Cyborg Manifesto."    If you search for the ... Read more

July 11 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Old Mole which deals with food and world hunger, a book about a future after capitalism, labor and the left in the AT&T merger with T-Mobile, and the political horizons for cyborgs.   For information about our theme music and ... Read more

Labor and the ATT Merger

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 "What could a telecom merger mean for economic democracy?" asks  Josh Eidelson in an article published in Dissent.  AT&T is merging with T-Mobile.  Is that a bad thing because it limits competition in a communications industry?  Or a good thing because AT&T is a union shop... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 07/04/11

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
On the next Old Mole, Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Jane Collins, a professor of sociology and women studies at University of Wisconsin. They discuss welfare since Bill Clinton's famous "reform" act of 1996 and working in the low-wage market. S... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 4th

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts and we hear:   1. Bill Resnick conclude his talk with Thomas Doyle about Church Sex-Abuse and revolutionizing the Church. 2. Bill talks with Jane Collins about welfare and the working-poor. 3. Joe talks with Jessica Chanay about the threat facing food-stamp... Read more

Thomas Doyle Part Two: Radically Changing The Church

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Last week Bill and Tom talked about sex-abuse in the Church, resistance to dealing with it by leadership. When Bill asks Tom what he'd do if he was Pope, Tom says he'd get rid of the monarchial form of the Church. Tom describes the way that the monarchies of the past constr... Read more