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Public Safety and the Truth of Poetry: Views and Interviews from a Socialist-Feminist, Anti-racist, Anti-colonial and LGBTQ-positive Perspective

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Patricia Kullberg, Bill Resnick, Denise Morris, Frann Michel, Laurie Mercier, Joe Clement, Jan Haaken, Larry Bowlden, Jon Nelson, OldMoleVarietyHour

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Views, Reviews, and Interviews from a socialist-feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial point of view.

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, Frann Michel, 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.

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Old Mole Variety Hour on 11/29/10

Airs at: Mon, 11/29/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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The Old Mole for the 29th, hosted by Joe Clement, features Bill Resnick and Dan Karp discussing why vouchers and charter schools are the wrong answer to the education question. Movie Moles Denise Morris and Wendy Webb reviewing Boxing Gym. Well Read Red Frann... Read more

Resnick on Korea and Palestine

Airs at: Mon, 11/29/2010 at 12:00am

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In this commentary, the Old Mole's Bill Resnick reflects on US policy and actions in response to the tension and violence between North and South Korea and the message it seems to be sending to and about Iran. Read more

Time For a Real Mutiny

Airs at: Mon, 11/29/2010 at 12:00am

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Tom Becker reads Alexander Coburn's "Time for a Real Mutiny," which first appeared in Counterpunch. "Enough of dreary predictability. Let’s have a real mutiny against Obamian rightward drift. The time is not six months or a year down the road. The time is now." Read more

Movie Moles: "Boxing Gym"

Airs at: Mon, 11/29/2010 at 12:00am

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Famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman's new film Boxing Gym explores the community that revolves around Lord's Gym in Austin, Texas. Movie Moles Wendy Webb and Denise Morris find much to like about it. It's playing now at the Hollywood Theater here in Portland. Read more

November 29 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 11/29/2010 at 12:00am

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Joe Clement hosts this show in which we see more efforts to sell us on policies born of fear: the sting operation resulting in the arrest in Portland of Mohamed Osman Mohamud, the so-called "Christmas Tree Bomber"; stripping us of our dignity in airports with scanners ... Read more

Gropings and Nude Images: Your TSA in Action

Airs at: Mon, 11/29/2010 at 12:00am

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Drawing on sources from the Left Press, Well-read Red Frann Michel analyzes the weird convergence of political opposition to "enhanced screening" procedures being instituted at airports, and shows how the understandings of Left and Right differ. The text of Frann's p... Read more

Manufacturing Terrorism?

Airs at: Mon, 11/29/2010 at 12:00am

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Discussing the case of the "Christmas Tree Bomber," local scholar and activist Michael Munk and the Old Mole's Bill Resnick show howit is being used to glorify the FBI and the National Police State. Munk is a political scientist and radical historian who produced Portl... Read more

Digital Sampling and the Contradictions of Intellectual Property Rights

Airs at: Thu, 11/25/2010 at 12:00am

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Nate Harrison narrates an impressive history of the use and dissemination of the "Amen Break," a 6-second drum solo in the middle of the Winston's 1969 hit, "Amen Brother." As the Amen Break became re-appropriated through eletronic sampling, its story stands as a testeme... Read more

Poverty and Health

Airs at: Mon, 11/22/2010 at 12:00am

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Bill talks with Dr. Andrew Wilper about the relationship between poverty and healthcare, and how it even affects those with insurance. Dr. Wilper is an internist with Cambridge Health Alliance and a fellow in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School. Read more

A Maintenance vs. Manufacturing Economy

Airs at: Mon, 11/22/2010 at 12:00am

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Ken Ingham is a writer, and in the early '90s responded to NPR's MarketPlace Report challenge to suggest ways to kick-start the economy. Ken's brief response was about building a maintenance economy through market mechanisms. In this essay that he wrote later, he expand... Read more

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