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Old Mole Variety Hour
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, broadly socialist, and feminist. (We count Karl Marx as a friend).
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Our theme "Mole in the Ground" is by Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1924), somtimes blended with a new version by dj/rupture, sung by Sindhu Zagoren. It's on the album Special Gunpowder.
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Alternatives to Austerity
Costas Panayotakis is an economist, sociologist, ecologist, writer, activist, playwright and actor. He is the author of Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy, and he talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how austerity policies are destroying the economies of Greece and other countries, and what working people need to do to respond. Here is Costas and friends performing as "Austerity Nuts" on the New York Subway.
- Title: Economic Crisis in Greece
- Album: May 21, 2012
- Length: 14:22 minutes (8.22 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 80Kbps (CBR)
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ALEC and Government by Corporation
Here is all you need to know about ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council -- the corporate funded and corporate-run group that writes bills for right-wing legislators to take home and enact into law. Well-read Red Frann Michel makes it all crystal clear. You can read her analysis and follow her links here.
- Title: ALELC: Corporate Legislation
- Album: May 21, 2012
- Length: 6:53 minutes (3.94 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 80Kbps (CBR)
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Transformation of Work
As the opportunities for paying jobs get fewer as the working-age population grows, more folks are turning to the off-the-books economy. Clayton Morgareidge reads from this blog post by Laura Flanders about what that might mean for the future of work.
- Title: Transformation of Work
- Album: May 21, 2012
- Length: 6:06 minutes (3.5 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 80Kbps (CBR)
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City Repair and Village Convergence
Neighbors in Portland are transforming and using the common spaces between homes. Mark Lakeman, one of the founders of City Repair, talks here with Bill Resnick about the work of his organization and what it means for community life. They have a wonderful website.
- Title: City Repair and Village Convergence
- Album: May 21, 2012
- Length: 8:42 minutes (4.98 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 80Kbps (CBR)
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Old Mole Variety Hour
Many thanks to all you listeners who contributed to KBOO during the Spring Membership Drive!
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole which deals with austerity policies in Greece and around the world, how the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) writes the right-wing agenda into law, how the underground economy is becoming the model for a "new" economy, and how City Repair and the Village Building Convergence are changing lives and neighborhoods in Portland.
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To hear the whole show, use the play button below. (Special Note: to hear the moment when the membership drive went over the top, listen to the whole show starting at 31:40.) To hear individual pieces, use these links:
2. Well-read Red Frann Michel explains ALEC.
3. Clayton Morgareidge reads from Laura Flander's Blog about the transformation of labor.
- Title: OMV5.21.2012
- Album: May 21, 2012
- Length: 43:37 minutes (24.97 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 80Kbps (CBR)
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Chemical Contaminants
Bill Resnick talks with biologist Lisa Wesal about chemical pollution.
- Genre: Other
- Length: 14:26 minutes (6.61 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
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KBOO and Democracy
Joe Clement comments on how KBOO's democratic organization and ownership structure is, as a form of workplace democracy, the true base of progressive social change.
- Genre: Other
- Length: 3:19 minutes (1.51 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
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James Hansen on Canadian Tarsands and Climate Change
Bill Resnick reads from a reader-supported news-article by James Hansen, a climate scientist, who argues why the tarsands several groups are looking to extract oil from in Canada will be devestating to the environment.
- Genre: Other
- Length: 3:28 minutes (1.59 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
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Old Mole Variety Hour May 14th 2012
Bill Resnick hosts this membership-drive special and we hear:
- Bill talk with Lisa Wesal about chemical contaminants
- Denise Morris talks with David Weismann about the Queer Documentary Film Festival
- Clayton Morgareidge talks about the limits of taxing the rich
- Joe Clement comments on KBOO and workplace democracy
- Bill reads an article by James Hansen about climate change
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- Title: OMVHMay142012
- Genre: Other
- Length: 46:28 minutes (21.28 MB)
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Queer Documentary Film Festival turns 6
Denise Morris talks with co-founder David Weisman about the Queer Documentary Film Festival, now in its 6th year. They talk about the significance of this film festival that show-cases only queer films. Films will be showing between May 17th and the 20th at the McMenamin's Kennedy School theater.
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commentary transcripts
It's convenient to have the Old Mole audio files available.
Even more useful for some of us would be transcripts of the commentaries (Clayton Morgareidge). Written material allows a person a chance to review, consider, digest and refer to mentioned references & thinkers. The "Well Read Red" commentary from 4 Aug 08 is a good example of a piece I'd like to read at my own pace.
These folks are so profound
These folks are so profound and fascinating, especially the Resnick guy. Wow!
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