Economy

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Beyond Liberalism

Airs at: Mon, 08/04/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge argues for why we need to "learn to see passed liberalism" and why "we must join and form and nurture political organizations that aim at transforming the capitalist and militarist system of power, which now governs our lives." He does this after admitti... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 28 July 2014

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
This episode of the Old Mole is hosted by Frann Michel, and features discussions of uses and misuses of media representations--of Gaza (including failures of the mainstream media and the power of visual images), of public education (including misleading stories about charte... Read more

Juan Cole on Gaza

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier talks with historian and Middle-East specialist Juan Cole about current events in Gaza. They discuss Israel's motives in launching its attack, and the history of Israel's occupation of Palestine, attacks on Hamas, and expansion of settlements in the West Bank... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 14 July 2014

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
This episode is hosted by Frann Michel, and explores debates over left strategies. The show includes some musical selections from Bitch Magazine's mixtape of American Protest Music, and the individual segments linked below: Bill Resnick and Norm Diamond discuss left perspec... Read more

well-read red: Does Capitalism Inevitably Produce Inequality?

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from a recent Counterpunch article, "Does Capitalism Inevitably Produce Inequalities?" by Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 7 2014

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Laurie Mercier interviews Peter Hart about his writing on media revisionism, scapegoating, and the Iraq War. Bill Resnick and Arun Gupta discuss the $15 minimum wage in Seattle and its implications for further class struggle. Clayt... Read more

Well-read Red: public austerity & private profits

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Well-read Red, Clayton Morgareidge, continues a theme he spoke about a few weeks ago concerning "stagnant capitalism" and connects it to a recent Jacobin article by Richard Seymour. Seymour's article critiques an article in the popular magainze, The Economist, for pandering... Read more

The $15 Minimum Wage And The Fight Beyond

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Arun Gupta about how the $15 minimum wage ordinance that was recently passed by the City Council in Seattle came to be. Arun points out how people are agitated by the bank-bailouts, the role played by Socialist Alternative and Kshama Sawant's electio... Read more

Benjamin Chavis Interview

Airs at: Mon, 06/30/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Dr. Benjamin Chavis is a civil rights pioneer. He led the NAACP in the early 90s and he was the director of the Million Man March. He is involved in a number of self empowerment initiatives including a collaboration with media mogul Russell Simmons to use hip hop as a way... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour June 23 2014

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode about neoliberal education in the Chinese context, the latest season of Orange is the New Black, We Are BRAVE (a reproductive rights & justice project aimed at serving women of color), and a proposed Communist Party of Cascadia. Bill Resn... Read more