Old Mole Variety Hour

reproductive justice

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for the Old Mole Variety Hour, June 8, 2009 The funeral this weekend of Dr. George Tiller attracted hundreds of mourners, honoring the memory of one of the very small number of doctors providing late term abortions in the US, a man whose clinic motto was "Trust women." Me... Read more

Memorial Day

Memorial Day is popularly recognized as our national holiday for remembering those who were killed in wars. As Barack Obama said the other day, it's a time to "pay tribute to our fallen heroes; and to remember the servicemen and women who cannot be with us this year ... Read more

labor day

for the Old Mole, September 1, 2008 Today is Labor Day. Most nations celebrate Labor day on May first, to commemorate the eight hour work day and the Haymarket riot, while we in the US celebrate instead the less radical date associated with outdoor barbecue and the en... Read more

on the relation between queer and immigrant movements

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for The Old Mole 9 June 2008 Certainly both groups have faced legislative attacks. Richard Fricker on Consortium News is only one of several recent writers to note what he calls a “surge of theocracy tinged with white racialism,” which he sees in a series of recent mea... Read more

mother's day for peace

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Yesterday was Mother’s Day, and by some counts it was the one-hundredth anniversary of Mother’s Day in the US . In 1870, social activist Julia Ward Howe wrote her Mother's Day Proclamation as a call for peace and disarmament, a call to unite women to organize against w... Read more

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

When the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan, one of the prominent justifications was liberating the people George W Bush called “women of cover” from the Taliban. Laura Bush told us in 2002 that “the fight against terrorism is also a fight for the right... Read more

The Iron Heel

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Old Mole Underground

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From the Well-read Red, January, 2006:What is this “old mole,” and how can a mole root down a mountain? We can trace the figure of the “old mole” back to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In the first act, the ghost of Hamlet’s father speaks from beneath the ground (or beneath the ... Read more