Economy

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Beyonce, Formation, and the Politics of Race in Pop Music

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken and Denise Morris unpack the complicated cultural and critical response to "Formation", a song and music video released by Beyonce Knowles days before her Super Bowl half-time performance of it. They consider the content of the song and video, the politics of rac... Read more

Curbing Climate Change vs. The Costs of Business as Usual

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2016 at 12:00am
Bill Resnick talks with Frank Ackerman on the costs of curbing climate change to manageable levels v. the costs of continuing on the current path. Frank Ackerman is an economist who has written extensively about the economics of climate change, energy and other environmenta... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for February 8, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 02/08/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Denise Morris hosts this episode and we hear: Tod Sloan interviews Mary Watkins, liberation psychologist and co-author of Up Against the Wall: Re-imagining the US-Mexico Border.   Bill Resnick talks to Maria Svart, national director of the Democratic Socialists of... Read more

Michigan Is Sticking Flint Residents With Bill For Poisoned Water

Airs at: Mon, 02/08/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick and Diane Feeley take you to Flint, Michigan, where the state is requiring residents to pay for the poisoned water they received. [Image Credit: www.commondreams.org] Read more

Sex Workers: what hurts, what helps?

Airs at: Tue, 02/09/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Left and the Law with Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker examine sex work, and whether prosecuting sex workers and shutting down websites increases the dangers of sex work. [Image Credit: www.hivgaps.org] Read more

Re-Imagining the US-Mexico Border

Airs at: Mon, 02/08/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tod Sloan interviews Mary Watkins, liberation psychologist and co-author of Up Against the Wall: Re-imagining the US-Mexico Border.     Mary Watkins teaches at Pacific Graduate Institute.   [Image Credit: www.wikipedia.org] Read more

Democratic Socialists of America on Bernie Sanders' "socialism"

Airs at: Mon, 02/08/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks to Maria Svart, national director of the Democratic Socialists of America, about why declaring socialism is no longer the kiss of death in elections. But how does Bernie Sanders describe Socialism. He gets that wrong but still you got to love him. [Ima... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for February 1, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 02/01/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Norm Diamond hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick and David Finkle, talking about a recent Syrian Peace Summit. Clayton Morgareidge offers a reading about "snow days under socialism" Larry Bowlden reviews Terra Konklins, "The House Girl". Norm offers s... Read more

History of Portland's Loyal Legion

Airs at: Tue, 02/02/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Old Mole and labor historian, Norm Diamond, offers some critical history surrounding the namesake of a hip new bar in Portland, Loyal Legon. Rather than a union in any good faith sense of that word, the Loyal Legon of Loggers and Lumbermen were a creation of the US military... Read more

Snow Days Under Socialism

Airs at: Tue, 02/02/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge reads from a Jacobin magazine article, "Snow Days Under Socialism".  All this begs the question: what would winter look like in a different world? What might change in a socialist society? In a society where ordinary people democratically controlled th... Read more