Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement interviews an organizer for Portland Tenants United about their recent work and the encouraging responses they've gotten door-to-door canvassing, and about their second General Assembly held yesterday at the North Portland Library. Read more

Frann Michel comments on America's culture of violence, and in particular how it led to the Stanford Rape case of Brock Turner and the recent mass shooting in an Orlando Florida gay nightclub:   I had been planning to talk about the Stanford rape case—you know, the one ... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Pete Dolack about his new book, It's Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment. Clayton reviews the Cuban Revolution to see what we can learn from it about socialism in action. Joe Clem... Read more

  Denise Morris and Bill Resnick discuss the Portland Public School District's recent decision to eliminate text books that present climate change denial as a legitimate scientific viewpoint. They refer to Bill Bigelow's recent article about the school board's decisio... Read more

Tom Becker hosts this episode, which features music by Charlie Musselwhite and segments on global trade, psychological survival in the occupied territories, and debates about how to teach about climate change.   Bill Resnick interviews Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch ... Read more

  Bill Resnick interviews Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch on why US trade policy has become a central issue for both parties. Jan Haaken talks with Judy Roth, an activist with Psychologists for Social Responsibility on her work with Israeli and Palestinian trauma vic... Read more

  Following the recent release of a report from the US International Trade Commission Concerning the Likely Impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, Bill Resnick talks with Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch about why US trade policy has become a centr... Read more

  Jan Haaken talks with Judy Roth, an activist with Psychologists for Social Responsibility, about her work with Israeli and Palestinian trauma victims and the Born Equal Task Force.   Photo by Hamde Abu Rahma: A schoolgirl, a ladder, a wall Read more