Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Jan Haaken interviews Old Mole Clayton Morgareidge about his new book Demystifying Demons: Rethinking Who and What We Are.  Working on the boundary of philosophy and psychoanalysis, it's a volume that one reviewer has called "a spiritual book for atheists" and an "eng... Read more

  Frann Michel hosts this episode, which includes these segments:  Bill Resnick interviews Larry Kleinman, co-founder of PCUN, about current immigration issues; Movie Moles Joe Clement & Frann Michel discuss Antz (1998),  a cartoon for workers of all ages; Jan Haaken i... Read more

  (trigger warning: Woody Allen)  The cgi-animated adventure-comedy Antz (1998),  available from the Multnomah County Library, shows viewers of all ages that when you are confronted with the threat of a fascist takeover, the appropriate response is to organize the worke... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Larry Kleinman, a co-founder of the farmworker union PCUN, and currently an advisor to immigrant rights organizations around the country. They discuss some of the history and recent developments in immigration law; some changes in the experienc... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Tom Athanasiou, author of Divided Planet, about what's happening, and what needs to happen, to challenge climate change. After Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Accords, will the international "community," particularly China and England, take... Read more

Richmond Vice Mayor Jovanka Beckles tells how the Richmond Progressive Alliance won political power in Richmond, California. Recorded at the Portland Troublemakers School and produced by Denise Morris.  Read more

    The abolition of slavery was seen as an assault on property rights, and so it was, as millions of enslaved people valued in the billions of dollars ceased to be property on June 19, 1865 (Juneteenth). This constituted a radical change that points the way towards ab... Read more

    The superb short fiction author, Maile Meloy, takes us on a luxury cruise ship down he coast of South America, pointing out the radical differences in  wealth between the ship’s passengers and crew. When the two American couples and their children go ashore for a d... Read more

Bill Resnick is our host for this edition of the Mole which includes these segments: 1. Tom Athanasiou talks with Bill Resnick about policies and movements necessary to deal with climate change. 2. Jovanka Beckles explains how the Richmond Progressive Alliance won in R... Read more

    Clayton Morgareidge asks why we are living in a society that requires so much violence to maintain, and traces it to inequality, and in particular, the inequality between those who own most of the world and those who must work, if they can, for those owners.      Read more