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Old Mole Variety Hour for January 6, 2025

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2025/01/06

Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast from Against the Grain. How should we understand the relationship between capitalists, big and small, and the Republican and Democratic parties — especially in the wake of Trump’s return to power? Sa...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for December 30, 2024

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2024/12/30

Patricia Kullberg hosts the final Old Mole broadcast of 2024, which includes the following segments: War and Climate Crisis in the Middle East: Laurie Mercier speaks with Dr. Zeinab Shuker, who is an assistant professor of sociology at Sam Houston State University and ...

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Global Warming and the Crisis of Imagination

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2024/12/30

In his 2016 collection of three essays, novelist Amitav Ghosh takes up a question of immense importance: what explains humanity’s collective failure to avert the existential threat posed by climate change? Capitalism and colonialism are the great structural forces that keep...

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War and Climate Crisis in the Middle East

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2024/12/30

Laurie Mercier speaks with Dr. Zeinab Shuker, who is an assistant professor of sociology at Sam Houston State University and a fellow at the Century Foundation. Her research focuses on comparative global political economy and climate change, with special emphasis on the Mi...

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Climate Change and the Law

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2024/12/30

On December 18th, Montana’s Supreme Court upheld a landmark ruling from a lower court last year. In the Held v Montana case, the Montana justices agreed that the state was violating residents’ constitutional right to a clean environment by permitting oil, gas and coal proje...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for November 25, 2024

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2024/11/25

Nimiipuu Mole Julian Ankney hosts this decolonial Thanksgiving Show, which features the following segments: Beginning in grade school, American school children are steeped in the American mythology of Thanksgiving, cosplaying pilgrims and their Wampanoag hosts peacefully...

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The Palestine Exception

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2024/11/18

After years of right-wing assaults on higher education, attacks took a new form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism o...

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Little Sis on the Genocide Gentry

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2024/10/28

The Genocide Gentry Project exposes the executives and board members of major weapons companies who also hold prestigious and powerful positions at museums, cultural organizations, universities & hospitals - the deeply embedded power structure undergirding institutional ...

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Indigenous Food Sovereignty

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2024/10/14

In September, WSU Vancouver broke ground on two new campus gardens–one a student community garden, the other centering Indigenous Traditional Ecological Cultural Knowledge. Julian Ankney speaks with Lakota-Cheyenne activist Roben White about the role of the gardens in revit...

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Remembering Salmon Scam

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2024/10/14

In a continuation of the “Fish Wars” of the 1960s and 70s, a 1982 federal sting operation scapegoated and criminalized Columbia fisher people for diminishing salmon runs. This segment, which originally aired in May 2023, we feature commentary from Wanapum fishing rights act...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for August 19, 2024

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2024/08/19

As colleges and universities gear up for Fall term, in this week's episode of Old Mole Variety Hour, Desiree Hellegers hosts as we rebroadcast an episode on "Repressing Opposition to Israel" from KPFA/Pacifica's show Against the Grain. The April 17 show homes in on "U.S. hi...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for August 5, 2024

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2024/08/05

Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Socialists and the Democrats: How should socialists relate to the Democratic Party in electoral seasons and quieter times? Bill Resnick debates with Peter Solenberger, who’s counseled ...

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Socialists and the Democrats

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2024/08/05

How should socialists relate to the Democratic Party in electoral seasons and quieter times? Bill Resnick debates with Peter Solenberger, who’s counseled that socialists should not support, or worse, work for the Democrat candidates, even in swing states where the Republica...

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Paper Cranes

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2024/08/05

Hiroshima Day is commemorated around the world annually in honor of survivors of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 and Nagasaki three days later on August 9th. This day serves as a reminder of the ongoing threats of nuclear weapons and nuclear power as ...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for July 29, 2024

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2024/07/29

Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast of a show from Against the Grain. How To Win: Jane McAlevey was an organizer, thinker and author dedicating her life to building working class power. “McAlevey believed that the left and labor mov...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for July 22, 2024

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2024/07/22

This episode is hosted by Frann Michel and features the following segments: Left & the Law: Kamala Harris Vice President Kamala Harris faces renewed scrutiny as calls intensify for Joe Biden to step down from the presidential race. Whatever the outcome of DNC jockeyi...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for July 15, 2024

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2024/07/15

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Media Watch: Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? US Guardian correspondent and activist Rebecca Solnit argues that the corporate media is hellben...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for July 8, 2024

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2024/07/08

Click here to listen or download this episode This episode is hosted by Frann Michel and features these segments: Chiquita Bananas and Climate Justice On June 12 Democracy Now aired a segment on a legal victory for Colombian agricultural workers against Chiquita. Af...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for July 1, 2024

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2024/07/01

Episode Audio: Download or listen to this episode here Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: New Forms of Democracy-Part Two: In part two of their discussion, Bill Resnick interviews Eleanor Finley, an anthropologist, who ...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for June 24, 2024

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2024/06/24

Download or listen to this episode here Desiree Hellegers hosts this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour, which includes the following segments: Gaza and the International Criminal Court: The International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ)...

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