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Views, Reviews, and Interviews from a Socialist-Feminist, Anti-racist, Anti-colonial and LGBTQ-positive Perspective

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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, 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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Floyd Red Crow Westerman

Airs at: Mon, 12/14/2009 at 12:00am

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Floyd Red Crow Westerman was a Native American singer, songwriter, actor, and activist who joined the causes of native peoples to contemporary folk music. Radical musicologist Brad Duncan talks with Bill Resnick about Red Crow's life, music and legacy. Read more

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 12:00am

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The Economic Policy Institute has a 5-point plan for making jobs part of the economic recovery, and a way to pay for it. The EPI's Josh Bivins explains what it requires in this interview with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick. Bivins is the author of Everybody Wins Except for... Read more

Ambush in Afghanistan

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 12:00am

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What pushed Obama into Afghanistan? What will it do to the Afghans? What will it do to Obama's domestic programs and the Democrats? Clayton Morgareidge reads from"Afghan Ambush" by Michael Winship; "How the War Hawks Caged Obama", by Robert Parry; and'There hasn't been... Read more

Students Organizing Against Tuition Hikes in California

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 12:00am

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The Old Mole's Laurie Mercier talks with Quinn Nguyen and Iris Bustos, student activists at UC Santa Barbara about the recent protests and one-day fast at UCSB. They also discuss the larger coalition-building among UC students with service workers and the larger commun... Read more

Family Homophobia

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 12:00am

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Novelist and Playwright Sarah Schulman's new book about how homophobia begins in the family gets a critical, yet appreciative, review from the Old Mole's Frann Michel. What more besides same-sex marriage and the cultural visibility of gay people is necessary? The book is... Read more

December 7 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 12:00am

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Hosted by Denise Morris, this show discusses how to make jobs part of the economic recovery, the Afghanistan "surge," student protests against the tuition hikes in California, and how homophobia begins at home and what to do about it. For information about our theme music... Read more

WTO - What It Really Costs

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 12:00am

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The WTO works to protect large corporations from having to bear the real costs of their production -- forcing the rest of us to pay with our health and the quality of our lives. Magrete Strand of the Sierra Club and the Blue Green Alliance explains how it works in this co... Read more

What Needs To Be Done

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 12:00am

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What should we be learning about the viability of our economic system from this latest crisis? Fred Magdoff and Michael D. Yates make the case for the socialist alternative in a recent editorial in Monthly Review, excerpted and read here by Clayton Morgareidge. Read more

Movie Review: Precious

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 12:00am

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What do we learn from Precious, the movie about a pregnant black teenager, about poverty, education, and matriarchy? What does it leave out or distort? The Old Mole's Denise Morris talks with Juell Stuart, a writer and activist from Brooklyn whose article on Precious appe... Read more

Music of Resistance

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 12:00am

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There is always music inspired by, and that inspires, political resistance, and these times are no exception. Radical musicologist Brad Duncan talks with Bill Resnick about some recent currents in political music, some of which were heard on today's Old Mole: "Tina," ... Read more

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