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Movie Moles: Selma

Airs at: Mon, 02/02/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement and Iven Hale review Selma, the widely acclaimed biopic about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Selma to Montgomery marches he helped organize in 1965, which aimed to draw attention to racial domination still alive after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. David Oyelowo ... Read more

Bill Resnick & Diane Elliot: living paycheck to paycheck in 2015

Airs at: Mon, 02/02/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Diane Elliot of the Pew Charitable Trust about the 57% of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck, either in poverty or one "misforture" away from it. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 12, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 01/12/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this episode, with the music of Phil Ochs, and segments on Charlie Hebdo, the Greek left, Teach for America, Studs Terkel, Property and the police state.  Find us on Facebook or Twitter, and friend or follow us for updates and other stuff we like to share... Read more

SYRIZA resistance to Greek Austerity

Airs at: Wed, 01/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick reads from and comments on Andrew Burgin's essay Why we must support a SYRIZA government in Greece on the likelihood that the Greek left will win the upcoming election there and ignite the movement to end Europe's austerity policy. [image from left unity] Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 5, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 01/05/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel hosts the first Mole of the new year, which looks back to past activism and forward to new movements and continued struggle.  To hear the whole show, click on the play button below. For individual segments, follow these links:     Bill Resnick talks with Ala... Read more

Pinkney Imprisoned for Fighting Corporate Power in Michigan

Airs at: Mon, 01/05/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris reads selections from Rev. Edward Pinkney Imprisoned for Fighting the Whirlpool Corporation, one of a number of  articles on the subject from Truthout.  (Whirlpool image by ShutInc). Read more

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