Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Chicago teacher and leader in the Chicago Teachers' Union Sarah Chambers talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the idea of arming teachers to stop school shootings, and about the problems besetting schools today and what shoud be done about them.  Photo Credit: P... Read more

In this clip from The Real News Network, historian Gerald Horne explains the origins of the Second Amendment (the right to bear arms) in eliminating native Americans and enforcing slavery. For Ani Haines' hour-long inteview on this topic with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, click... Read more

    On this especially varied hour, Bill Resnick hosts, and we hear these segments: Jan Haaken talks with psychoanalyst, professor, and author Jill Gentile about Trump Bill Resnick talks with Bob Peterson about attacks on public education Frann Michel finds solace in ... Read more

  Jan Haaken talks with psychoanalyst Jill Gentile about the dynamics behind Trump's sexist and racist propoganda. Gentile is a faculty member at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and author of Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voi... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Bob Peterson, a founder of Rethinking Schools magazine and former president of the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association, who blogs at Educate for Democracy. They discuss attacks on public education, the history of vouchers and charter scho... Read more

    Frann Michel finds the news demoralizing, and offers a clip of Fred Hampton, Sr., speaking at a mock people's trial.   Image of Fred Hampton By Fair use, via Wikimedia Commons. Read more

  Larry Bowlden reviews Garth Stein's 2014 novel A Sudden Light.  A fourteen year old boy, who is attempting to bring his separated parents back together, learns about his past and about his great-great grandfather’s decimation of forests for profit. As he wanders throu... Read more

  Bill Resnick and Jeff Huntz discuss the debts of punks like Jello Biafra to radical folk like Phil Ochs. You can hear the original Phil Ochs version of Love Me I'm a Liberal here, and the Jello Biafra / Mojo Nixon cover version here.   Image of Phil Ochs By Kenneth Ta... Read more

Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker discuss the moral necessity defense and how it has been used in civil disobedience cases, including the recent prosecution of climate activists known as the "valve-turners" who shut down five pipelines carrying tar sands crude oil. Photo co... Read more

In the second of a two-part interview, Desiree Hellegers interviews legendary Seattle folk singer, song-writer and activist Jim Page about justice, gentrification, songwriting and music as a tool of resistance. Read more