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News and views from a feminist-socialist, decolonizing 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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Mothers and Others: Alloparents and Commoning

Airs at: Mon, 05/10/2010 at 12:00am

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Remarking on Mother's Day, our Well-read Red Frann Michel considers what mothers need from the commons -- from their fellow human beings with their evolved hypersociality according to the slogan "One for all and all for one." You can read Frann's remarks on her blog. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 10, 2010

Airs at: Mon, 05/10/2010 at 12:00am

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Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show about hope in hard times, about the opportunities given to us by the disastrous times we live in. This show is part of KBOO's Spring Membership Drive, offering you the opportunity to support the station that sustains the Old Mole, alon... Read more

Volcanos, Air Travel, and Climate

Airs at: Mon, 05/03/2010 at 12:00am

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Frann Michel, The Well-read Red, explores some surprising connections among volcanic eruptions, air travel, climate change, and the capitalist mode of production. You can read her remarks by clicking here. Read more

From a Finance Economy to a Green Economy

Airs at: Mon, 05/03/2010 at 12:00am

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Laurie Mercier speaks with Les Leopold, co-founder and director of The Labor Institute, consultant to the Blue-Green Alliance, which brings together trade unions and environmental organizations, and author most recently of the book The Looting of America: How Wall Street's... Read more

Getting to a Green Economy

Airs at: Mon, 05/03/2010 at 12:00am

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Coal, oil, and nuclear power can be things of the past. Bill Resnick talks with Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research and author of Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (2007), which is the first analy... Read more

Book Mole: "Solar"

Airs at: Mon, 04/26/2010 at 12:00am

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Novelist Ian McEwan is able "to display clearly how brilliant accomplishment in one area of a life can be, and very often is, combined with absurd ineptness (or worse) in other areas." Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden discusses McEwan's new novel Solar about a man whose person... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 26, 2010

Airs at: Mon, 04/26/2010 at 12:00am

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Hosted by Bill Resnick, this program deals with crime in the suites that goes unpunished and crime in the streets that is punished if committed while being black. We hear from a former federal finance regulator about the snowballing malfeasance in the finance industry; a... Read more

Crooked Finance

Airs at: Mon, 04/26/2010 at 12:00am

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Bill Black, a former bank regulator, has been writing about financial fraud in high places at least sine the S&L scandal in the early '90s. His book about that is The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry. He... Read more

Incarceration and The New Jim Crow

Airs at: Mon, 04/26/2010 at 12:00am

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is the title of a new book by longtime civil rights advocate and litigator, Michelle Alexander. In this episode of the Old Mole's The Left and the Law, attorney Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken sum up and discu... Read more

Goldman Sacks the Treasury

Airs at: Mon, 04/26/2010 at 12:00am

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Is Goldman Sachs "little better than a criminal enterprise that earns its billions by bilking the market, the government, and even its own clients in a bewildering variety of complex financial scams"? Or is "Goldman guilty of [nothing] except being "too smart" and really,... Read more

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