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Old Mole Variety Hour on 10/14/13

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Well-read Red: Class War, Bourgeois Strategy, and Obamacare

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge brings us the Well-read Red. Today he considers resistance to the Affordable Care Act and the strategically mysterious though potentially disastrous empowerment of the radical right by capitalists. Read more

Columbis Day Well-read Red: Frann Michel on repression and resistance in indigenous history

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel brings us the Well-read Red in honor of Indigenous People's Day. Being the Federal holiday known as "Columbus Day", she offers timely reflections on the repressed history of colonialism in the New World and mounting challenges from within education and organ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 14th

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 12:00am
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Joe Clement hosts this episode, which is about a third shorter than usual because of membership drive. We have taken the pitching segments out, but we encourage you to click the "donate today" button in the upper right hand corner and become a member today if you are not... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 10/07/13

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Our Unequal Society

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2013 at 12:00am
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Sam Pizzigati is a labor journalist, the author of The Rich Don't Always Win, and editor of Too Much, a weekly newsletter about excess and inequality. Here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the latest reports on income inequality -- like the fact that a... Read more

Catastrophic Climate Breakdown

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2013 at 12:00am
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The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is quite conservative and yet carries the shattering message that "it's as bad as we thought." So says UK journalist George Monbiot in an article in The Guardian, read here by Old Mole Tom Beck... Read more

The Left & The Law: Lifers

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In the US, there are 110,439 prisoners serving life sentences and 49,081 serving life without parole. Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken discuss the growing use of life sentences, why it happened, and the prospects for change in this conversation in their ongoing series The L... Read more

World Events and Private Lives

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2013 at 12:00am
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In this personal account of a year in her Southern Oregon childhood, Old Mole Iven Hale reflects on how her own life in 1979 was related to world historical events of that year. Read more

Obamacare from a Radical Universal Healthcare Perspective

Airs at: Thu, 10/03/2013 at 12:00am
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Jan Haaken talks with Universal Healthcare advocate, Chris Lowe, about Obamacare. Jan questions Chris about how to understand what's worthwhile and regressive in Obamacare from the perspective of those of us who believe healthcare should be universal. They talk about soc... Read more