Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge will be our host and we will hear -- More about the impact of ICE raids in Woodburn and how US foreign policy drives immigration How to overcome disempowering skepticism about a better world Providing medical help to marginalized communities How pro... Read more

    In honor of International Women's Day, Tom Becker  reports on the life and times of Clara  Zetkin, perhaps the world's first socialist feminist.    Read more

Desiree Hellegers interviews Ramon Ramirez, President of the Oregon farmworker union PCUN or Pineros Y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste, about the recent ICE raid in Woodburn, its impact on Oregon farmworkers, and the broader impacts of changes to immigration policy under the ... Read more

Tod Sloan talks with Rebecca Hyman, a therapist and trauma scholar, about emotional and mental health under the Trump administration. They consider how people have been traumatized before and by the election of Donald Trump, individual vs. systematic views of trauma, ide... Read more

Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick and Rob Wallace talk about how capitalist agriculture creates disease Desiree Hellegers and Ramon Ramirez of PCUN talk about the Woodburn ICE raids Tom Becker reads about the radical anti-capitalist origins of International ... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with evolutionary biologists Rob Wallace about capitalism and agriculture, and specifically how agribusiness creates epidemics. Rob's books include "Big Farms Make Bird Flu" and "Neoliberal Ebola". He is in town speaking about his work at the First Uni... Read more

Bill Resnick and Bill Smalldone continue their interview on fascism and Trumpism. In the second part today they discuss how Trump and our warrior politicians and forces can manufacture a threat to this country  -- maybe from Muslim fundamentalism, maybe with Russia or Ch... Read more

Bill Resnick concludes his three-part interview with Bill Smaldone, on whether the U.S. is implementing a totalitarian state, and how to resist Trumpism. The first parts can be found HERE. Read more

Frann Michel discusses Sinclair Lewis's 1935 novel of American fascism, It Can't Happen Here, the similarities between its fictional demagogue and our current president, the capitalist roots of fascism, and some differences of political landscape then and now.   It's t... Read more

For the Old Mole Action Calendar, Laurie Mercier and Bill Resnick discuss movements and upcoming local actions that contend for a more just society. Read more