Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Bill Resnick speaks with Patricia Kullberg MD MPH about how premature disease, disability and death affects people of color, low income and immigrant communities in Portland, how the health gap between those who live in privilege and those who don’t is driven by socia... Read more

  Thabiti Lewis queries what the national anthem debate tells us about America and democracy and raises questions regarding the sincerity of the recent ad campaign supporting Colin Kaepernick and how powerful forces in our society work to neutralize activist voices and ... Read more

  In the second of a two part-interview, Desiree Hellegers interviews deaf activist Philip J. Wolfe about the ground-breaking work of providing nearly continuous access to deaf and hard of hearing activists at OccupyICEPDX, and about the struggles that deaf and hard of ... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts, and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Amy Cantrell, a North Carolina minister who has been organizing to help victims of Hurricane Florence. Thomas Hanna of the Democracy Collaborative talks with the Old Mole’s Laurie Mercier about the r... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Amy Cantrell, a minister who founded Beloved Community Asheville which organized to assist the poor people in Lumberton and Robeson County. As with Katrina and Sandy, the public authorities rush in to help the white and well to do and to protect t... Read more

Movie Moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel review the film Killer of Sheep. It’s about African-American life in Watts in the early 1970s, and one of the "100 Essential Films" of all time according to the National Society of Film Critics. The film is available at Movie Ma... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge discusses the way life in capitalist society limits our ability to take erotic pleasure in life and how a life of freedom from wage labor could make all life, including work, pleasurable.  You can read an expanded version of this commentary here.  Read more

Laurie Mercier interviews Thomas Hanna, Research Director of the Democracy Collaborative, about democratic ownership and public banking. Hanna is author of the new book Our common wealth: The return of public ownership in the United States; a recent piece “We Need Public... Read more

Legal Moles Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken discuss the legal, political, and psychological contexts around Brett Kavanaugh and what's ahead for his confirmation to the Supreme Court. Left & the Law Team Photo: Clayton Morgareidge Kavenaugh Photo Credit: JacobinMagazine Read more

  This episode is hosted by Thom Becker, and features these segments: 1. An interview with Diane Feeley, a Detroit activist, on environmental, labor, feminist and housing issues. 2. In the first of a two-part segment, Desiree Hellegers interviews American Sign Language ... Read more