Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Mole and we hear these pieces: 1.  The Old Mole's Laurie Mercier talks with historian Herb Ruffin about the roots of Black Lives Matter and its success as a social movement.  2.  Mole Bill Resnick interviews activist and Green Party lea... Read more

Howie Hawkins is a perennial candidate for the NY State Green Party, but he’s different, because he is now getting over 5% in state elections and 35% in Syracuse, NY, where the Democrats and Republicans join forces to defeat him. Howie is well known in NY for his researc... Read more

Laurie Mercier speaks with Herb Ruffin, professor of African American Studies at Syracuse University, about the historical roots of Black Lives Matter and its success as a social movement. Ruffin’s essay, “Black Lives Matter: The Growth of a New Social Justice Movement,... Read more

Desiree Hellegers interviews activists with the Mosquito Fleet, an emerging grassroots direct action activist group that grew out of last summer's Shell No! protests. Touching on the links between militarism, oil and climate change, the interviews were conducted outside ... Read more

The Mondragon coop in the Basque region of Spain, owned and managed by its workers, has been seen by the left as a path beyond capitalism. But how has it worked out? Sharryn Kasmir has lived in and studied the town of Mondragon and talked with the workers, and found it l... Read more

Field Mole Desiree Hellegers covers voices from the Quinault Indian Nation's Shared Waters, Shared Values March and Rally from this past Saturday. The event brought together a Native canoe flotilla and non-native kayaktivists in a show of resistance to the proposed expan... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Aaward winning documentary filmmaker Kathy Kasic about her new documentary "Loose Horses." The film focuses on the the intermediary auction pens in which unwanted domestic horses might either find a new life or be sent to the slaughterhouse. Set in ... Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole; it includes these segments: 1.  Clayton selects and reads some commentary from the left on last week's shootings in Minneapolis, Baton Rouge, and Dallas. 2.  Bill Resnick talks with Sharryn Kasmir about her criti... Read more