Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

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

  Laurie Mercier talks to Jason Wilson, who writes for the Guardian, Alternet, Medium, and other publications, about the alt right and right-wing movements. They discuss recent alt right protests in Portland and the Northwest, and how right-wing movements push politics ... Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge hosts, with music from Weather Report and these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Mark Weisbrot about Labour gains in the UK Elections. Desiree Hellegers brings voices from the last hearing on the proposed Tesoro terminal. Clayton explores why our s... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research about Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party's gains in the recent elections, the Labour Party's Manifesto, and European resistance to neoliberalism.  Read more

    Desiree Hellegers speaks with health professionals, organizers, elected officials and concerned community members who testified at Wednesday’s EFSEC hearing in Vancouver about the anticipated health impacts of airborne emissions from proposed Tesoro Savage oil te... 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

  Bill Resnick interviews Tom Athanasiou of the Earth Island Institute on Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Change Accord. They also discuss the great opportunity for meaningful action. Tom Athanasiou is the author of Divided Planet. Read more