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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, Frann Michel, 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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Old Mole Variety Hour for February 23, 2026

Airs at: Mon, 02/23/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Black History and Resisting its Whitewashing: Frann Michel hosts this episode featuring these segments:  Kent Ford: Walking and Talking with a Panther:  Selections from a talk by Kent Ford, co-founder of the Portland chapter of the Black Panther Party. Ford helped le... Read more

Teaching Truth

Airs at: Mon, 02/16/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Book Mole Norm Diamond reviews two highly-political books written for a middle-school readership: Silenced Voices by Pablo Leon is a graphic novel on the struggle by indigenous people in Guatemala and their immigrant experience in the U.S. Shift Happens by J. Albert Mann... Read more

Book Mole: Low April Sun

Airs at: Mon, 02/16/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  2025 marked the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by white supremacists that killed 168 people. The novel Low April Sun by Constance E. Squires, reviewed by writer and photographer Matt Witt, is set against that atrocity and show... Read more

You Are Not American

Airs at: Mon, 02/16/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Laurie Mercier speaks with Amanda Frost, the David Massee Professor of Law and Director of the Immigration, Migration and Human Rights Program at the University of Virginia School of Law. They discuss how citizenship has always been contested and racialized in the United... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 16, 2026

Airs at: Mon, 02/16/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: You Are Not American: Laurie Mercier speaks with Amanda Frost, the David Massee Professor of Law and Director of the Immigration, Migration and Human Rights Program at the Un... Read more

African-Americans and the Bomb

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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When Dr. Vincent Intondi became interested in the African-American response to atomic weapons, he was told over and over again by various scholars that the Black community had no history of protest against the bomb. That, he quickly discovered, was completely false. The ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 9, 2026

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode includes these segments: African-Americans and the Bomb:   When Dr. Vincent Intondi became interested in the African-American response to atomic weapons, he was told over and over again by various scholars that the Black community h... Read more

Book Mole: Thirsty Creek

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Recent history is full of examples of humans messing with nature in order to increase profits, only to cause lasting ecological damage that wasn’t taken into account. The mystery novel Thirsty Creek, by Portland lawyer and writer Jennie Bricker, reviewed by writer and... Read more

Campus Police in the ICE Age

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Kate, President of Students for Justice in Palestine at Washington State University Vancouver, discusses campus safety. In remarks from a recent campus event, she explains why abolishing ICE should also entail abolishing the police, and how real public safety means co... Read more

For a Tax Strike to Shut Down ICE

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  With the federal government being steadily transformed into a pain, death, and detention delivery machine, the taxes we pay are quite literally imperiling us. With Tax Day still a good three months away, Desiree Hellegers explores the case for the strategic power, mor... Read more