Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement* talks with Zak Wear of Fair and Affordable Richmond. He was the campaign manager of Measure L, a ballot measure that passed in the November election of last year, thereby establishing rent-control and eliminating no-cause evictions. They talk about what the ... Read more

Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker talk about the two federal courts last week that challenged Trump's revised anti-Muslim travel ban and what some describe as a consitutional crisis. They also take up how these recent legal challenges shape current border politics. Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Alex de Jong* from the Netherlands about right-wing populism in the Netherlands. They consider how globalization has affected the Dutch working-class, the shift to the right in government, but also the failure of the right-wing candidate, Geert Wi... Read more

Bill Resnick hosts this episode and we hear: Joe Clement talks to Zak Wear about how Rent Control was won in Richmond Californa Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker talk about immigration and Trump's travel ban Bill talks with Alex Dejung about right-wing populism in the Nethe... Read more

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

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

    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