Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Thom Becker reads a piece by Jim Hightower arguing pointing out that the middleclass in the US came to be only in the 1930s through the '60s, mostly due to working class struggles. Now Republicans are busy trying to return most of us to poverty. Photo Credit: Common Dre... Read more

  Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss the new biopic film,"I, Tonya" and its portrayal of the real-life drama of Oregonian Tonya Harding. They take up the gender and class politics of the film as it tells the story of Harding's rise and fall as a figure ska... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with organizers from the campaign for Measure 101. When the Oregon Legislature voted last year to to pay for its portion of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, it passed with a super-majority, and was going to be funded through the widely commo... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge comments on the roots of racism and white supremacy. "This account should help us see that Capitalism and White Supremacy grew up together and are facets of a single system. Political movements to end the exploitation of everyone by Capital must at th... Read more

Bill Resnick hosts this Martin Luther King day. In addition to the songs of Woody Guthrie and Bill's comments about them,  we hear: California fires, floods, mudslides, loss of life. But California will recover.  Probably not Puerto Rico and many undeveloped countries. B... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with John Foran about how inequality shapes climate change and the fall-out of natural disasters, from Santa Barbara to Puerto Rico and beyond. Read more

  Norm Diamond talks with Laurie Mercier about the uses of history for developing strategy, and the course he taught this past fall on Labor History for rank-and-file labor activists, developed in connection with Portland Rising, part of Jobs with Justice. This version... Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge reads from Meagan Day's article in Jacobin on "Moving Beyond the Liberal Voting Rights Agenda," arguing that when it comes to voting rights,  the Democratic Party is primarily interested in electoral reforms that aid its central project of consoli... Read more

  Laurie Mercier and Norm Diamond host this Labor-focused episode, featuring music from the musical documentary Seattle 1919 as well as some Detroit blues.  In segments, Frann Michel shares lessons for labor from the #MeToo movement Norm and Laurie discuss his recent co... Read more