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Presswatch on 12/18/2014

Airs at: Thu, 12/18/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
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Old Mole Variety Hour for December 29, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 12/29/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken hosts this episode and we hear: In addition to music and spoken word pieces, Jan Haaken comments on the relationship between Kwanzaa's values and socialist struggle in Africa Bill Resnick talks Karen Connelly and Terra O'Neill about the progressive case f... Read more

Sleep Dealer and Work Without Workers

Airs at: Mon, 12/29/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads from Jason Read's review of Sleep Dealer, which he wrote for The Portland Phoenix. Sleep Dealer is a recent sci-fi dystopia in Spanish about a near future where robots are operated from afar by desperate Mexican workers. Jason writes about how he got to ta... Read more

A Queer Radical Critique of Gay Marriage

Airs at: Mon, 12/29/2014 at 12:00am
Iven Hale reads from a recent essay by Yasmin Nair titled Against Equality, Against Marriage. Iven leads off relating her own experiences with marriage's cultural hegemony. "A queer radical critique of the family is not simply the celebration of an outsider status, although... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 22, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 12/22/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this show dealing with several struggles for freedom and respect against forces of repression and exploitation.  To hear the whole show, click on the play button below. For individual segments, follow these links: 1. Walmart worker and organizer Martha Sell... Read more

Nelson Mandela Meets the Press

Airs at: Mon, 12/22/2014 at 12:00am
In commemoration of Nelson Mandela, one year after his death, Alan Wieder presents his comments on a televised town meeting from his first trip to the United States after he was released from prison in 1990. In the meeting, he responded to reactionary comments from politici... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 15, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 12/15/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this episode and we hear:   Bill Resnick interviews Tom Athanasiou following his recent trip to Lima for the international climate change conference Tom Becker reads an article on neoliberal economics. Joe Clement and Frann Michel review a ... Read more

Todd Sloan on Consumerism & Commodity Culture

Airs at: Mon, 12/15/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick and Tod Sloan consider what consumerism is and isn't, the political-economic project that drives consumerism, how consumerism tries to compensates us for alienation and exploitation, how consumerism infects our social relations, and how to think about anti-cons... Read more

Neoliberalism is Alive and Well

Airs at: Mon, 12/15/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads Benjamin Selwyn's essay for Le Mond Diplomatique, Neoliberalism is Alive and Well. Selwyn asks why neoliberalism persists if it is described by prominent economists to be a failure. His suggestion points past economic discourse though to the political proje... Read more

Bill Resnick & Tom Athanasiou on global action against climate change

Airs at: Mon, 12/15/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Tom Athanasiou following his recent trip to Lima for the United Nations climate change conference. They discuss the "global commons" and international cooperation around reducing emmission, but also creating equity. They consider the history of previ... Read more