Race

The Social and Political Significance of Kendrick Lamar's Music

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Abdul Fofanah and Issa Kamara about the politics of Kendrick Lamar's work as a hip-hop artist and the power of his music in the Black Lives Matter movement.  Fofanah is co-director of the documentary, "Moving to the Beat"--a documentary about hip-hop a... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 14, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole and we hear:   Bill Resnick interviews Mark Engler, co-author of "This Is an Uprising: How Non-Violent Revolt Is Shaping the 21st Century" Jan Haaken talks with documentary director on her new movie "Trapped," about attempts to clos... Read more

Revolutionary Non-Violent Direct Action in the 21st Century

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Mark Engler, co-author with Paul Engler of "This Is an Uprising: How Non-Violent Revolt Is Shaping the 21st Century". Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for February 22, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this show, largely about the struggle and culture of Africans and African Americans, and we hear: 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. ... Read more

Michelle Alexander for Supreme Court Justice

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris considers the likelihood that Michelle Alexander could be our next Supreme Court Justice. Alexander is the author of the critically acclaimed "The New Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of color-blindness" (which Old Moles have covered HERE and HERE and H... Read more

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

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

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