Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Mole and we hear: 1. Bill Resnick talks with author and activist Heather Gautney about the future of the Sanders campaign. 2. The Left & the Law team, Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken discuss laws regulating sex on the internet a... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Heather Gautney, a leading activist-scholar on what’s next in the Sanders revolution. Gautney is author of Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement. Read more

Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker discuss SESTA-FOSTA, Senate and House versions of a new law banning sex workers from the internet. They discuss the problematic conflation of sex trafficking and prostittuion in this law, how it makes life more dangerous for sex workers, and ... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge exlains why there's no point in appealing to the conscience of capitalists and the politicians that support them: They are slaves to a soul-less system: capital, whose only need is profit. You can read this piece here.  Image: economicshelp.org Read more

  In this Labor Day special, erstwhile mole and guest host Norm Diamond talks with three young labor historians who integrate environmental and gender concerns into their writing and their activism. Heather Mayer is the author of the just-published book, Beyond the Rebe... Read more

  Joe Clement and Frann Michel review the 2017 film, The Young Karl Marx, written and directed by Raoul Peck (critically acclaimed creator of I Am Not Your Negro). The Young Karl Marx follows major events in Karl Marx's life in the 1840s when he turns from journalism to... Read more

  Norm Diamond talks with Heather Mayer,  the author of the just-published book, Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in the Pacific Northwest, 1905-1924.   Read more

  Norm Diamond talks with  Steven Beda, at the U of Oregon, about his research on the environmental and political history of rural working class communities in our region, with special attention to logging communities and the International Woodworkers of America (IWA). ... Read more

  Norm Diamond talks with Amy Coplen,  a Ph.D student at PSU, studying and participating in organizing among Portland’s food service workers, with a focus on the Burgerville campaign and so-called “progressive” employers. Read more

  Historians Heather Mayer, Steve Beda, and Amy Coplen talk with Norm Diamond about the importance of building community for strong labor organizing and what it takes to maintain a movement.  All four are involved with the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association. p... Read more