Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Bil Resnick talks with Jeff Hunt, a millennial generation radical who keeps up with grass roots music and its resistant qualities. We discuss how many inspirational songs are two-edged, sometimes backfiring:  They may promote ideas that America is the land of opportunit... Read more

Thom Becker hosts this show containing these segments: 1. Bill Resnick talks with Treyven Layshon about gun violence and how to respond to it, 2. Book Mole Larry Bowlden explains the underestimated value of "women's" literature. 3. Tom Becker reads Thor Benson's piece f... Read more

  Jan Haaken talks with Judy Norsigian, co-founder of "Our Bodies Ourselves" and a previous executive director of the organization. They look back on how this foundational text of second wave feminism shaped the abortion rights struggle and discuss their current project... Read more

  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes these segments: Bill Resnick interviews Marty Hart-Landsberg on the U.S. economy, trade policy and how to understand Trump's imposition of tariffs and what's the left's most effective discourse on trad... Read more

  Bill Resnick interviews Marty Hart-Landsberg on the U.S. economy, trade policy and how to understand Trump's imposition of tariffs and what's the left's most effective discourse on trade.     image via maxpixel       Read more

  Last week the West Virginia Teachers strike came to an end, and along the way we saw teachers invoking the militant union history of their State's mining industries. John Sayles' 1987 film Matewan is about one episode in that history, and Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Jo... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Aylssa Pariah and Nykki Elizath Milano about the International Women's Day March and Strike on Thursday, March 8th in Portland. Local information here. Alyssa Pariah is an Afro-Puerto Rican trans woman from New York City and an organizer with Don’t Shoot ... Read more

Old Moles Bill Resnick and Joe Clement discuss the state-wide West Virginia Teachers' Strike - what it's about, who is involved, how it's going down, and why it seems significant as public sector unions are under attack in the Supreme Court. Photo credit: Unions.org Read more

Thom Becker calls on his friend Bob to explain why now is the time to participate in KBOO's Kickstarter campaign. Read more

Jan Haaken talks with psychiatrist Elizabeth Berger about psychological dynamics of living under Israeli occupation for Palestinian children, and some of the links between human rights and mental health.  Berger is a child psychiatrist living in New York City and on the steeri... Read more