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Old Mole Variety Hour for April 13, 2009

Airs at: Sun, 04/12/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
This show features music by and an interview  about Tupac Shakur.   Also discussed are: reclaiming the consensus that  the richest folks should pay the most for the government services everyone needs;  how details  of the Easter story (crucifixion and resurrection) run p... Read more

Executions From The Sky: Protesting Drones

Airs at: Sun, 04/12/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Pilotless aircraft -- drones -- controlled by "pilots" in California are dropping bombs on targets in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.  What's  the impact on the ground?  On the operators?  Kathy Kelley of Voices for Creative Nonviloence talks with Bill Resnick.  Kelley w... Read more

Alternative Easters

Airs at: Sun, 04/12/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Bible is not the only version of the Easter story.  Tom Becker reports on pre-Christian myths that parallel many details of the resurrection.  Read more

Taxes and the Rich

Airs at: Sun, 04/12/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
A good society taxes its wealthiest members to invest in infrastructure and services for all. At least that was the consensus fifty years ago, but now the wealthy pay lower taxes than the rest of us. Chuck Collins from the Institute of Policy Studies talks with the Old Mol... Read more

Book Review: "The Ghost At the Table"

Airs at: Sun, 04/05/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Suzanne Berne's novel about memories and family secrets,  The Ghost at the Table. Read more

Argentina's Economic Crisis

Airs at: Sun, 04/05/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with psychoanalyst and Latin American historian Nancy Hollander about the economic meltdown in Argentina in the 1990s, how workers responded by taking over workplaces, and what  we can learn from the response to that crisis.   NANCY CARO HOLLANDER Ph.D. ... Read more

Obama Quagmire in Afghanistan?

Airs at: Sun, 04/05/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Stephen Zunes, senior policy analyst for the Foreign Policy in Focus Project and associate editor of Peace Review, about whether Obama, like LBJ in Viet Nam, will founder on his predecessor’s war – Afghanistan. Read more

Migrant Housing, Migrant Labor

Airs at: Sun, 04/05/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Luz María Gordillo and apprentice Mole Megan Trevarthen talk with Patricia Arnold who has worked for many years with migrant farm workers about migrant workers’ housing and the future of migrant workers in Oregon. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 6, 2009

Airs at: Sun, 04/05/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, this program features three interviews: Migrant labor and housing; Obama's war in Afghanistan; and Argentina's 1990s crisis.  Also on the show: a review of Suzanne Sterne's novel The Ghost at the Table.  To hear the whole show, click on th... Read more

Archie Green's Big Red Song Book

Airs at: Sun, 03/29/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
      A folklorist specializing in labor songs, Archie Green died last  week.   The Old Mole's Tom Becker remembers him and his work, which includes the Big Red Song Book.  Photo: Archie Green, left, with Dock Walsh, 1962. Archie Green Collection (#20002), Southern Folkl... Read more