Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Mike Snedeker talks with Jessica Campbell, Co-director of the Rural Organizing Project, about the organization's mission and how they are forming community groups to respond to the rural economic crisis and counter the influence of local militias and sheriffs. Photo: Do... Read more

Jan Haaken is our host for this Pledge Drive show as the Moles discuss --  1. Non-sectarian struggles for social justice in Iraq 2. A psychoanalytic look at Trump supporters 3. Organizing against militias in Eastern Oregon To hear the whole show, use the download link belo... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Ali Issa, a field Organizer for the War Resisters League, and author of Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq. He talks about how the war in Iraq devastated social movements – labor, women’s, environmental -- seeking a secular Socia... Read more

  Workers               On this Labor Day, let’s stop and think a little about what we’re supposed to be celebrating. It’s a national holiday, so perhaps we should start by seeing what the federal Department of Labor says. On its website, we find this: Labor Day, the... Read more

  Tod comments on the labor of activism, the forms of work we need to do in order for movements to be successful and for the work to be enjoyable - with a focus on the work of effective teams and intergroup relations. He draws on work by the Cascadia Center for Social E... Read more

  Donlon is author of the report Soil Solutions to Climate Problems, about how capitalist agriculture is ruining the planet's soil.She and Bill discuss the little-known soil crisis, in which capitalist agriculture is mining the soil, causing great soil loss and soil deg... Read more

  Larry discusses two novels by Graham Greene -- The Quiet American and Our Man in Havana.  Graham Greene was an excellent satirist and comedic writer who really understood the world of spy networks and military journalism. Our Man in Havana and The Quiet American are t... Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this Labor Day Old Mole, with segments on work, writing, activism, food and climate, and music including "Erosion" by science teacher David Newman. Clayton comments on what it means to be a worker in a capitalist economy. Tod Sloan comments o... Read more

Laurie Mercier talks with Michael Shannon Executive Director Oregon Fair Trade Campaign. Shannon joins the Old Mole to talk about Fair trade and the Campaign to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the largest free-trade deal in history. Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Joseph Schwartz who teaches at Temple University, political science. His published books include The Future of Democratic Equality: Reconstructing Social Solidarity in a Fragmented United States. Schwartz worked in both of Jesse Jackson presidenti... Read more