Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris and Joe Clement discuss housing as a human right, the broad impact of rising housing costs, the Portland history of racism that has contributed to the current housing crunch, the struggle for sustainable solutions that go beyond isolated nuclear family home... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Jeremy Brecher, author of Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival. They discuss the limits of the Obama clean energy plan and the opportunites it offers to push for global actions that will actually help salvage a humanly liveable climate; the... Read more

Tom Becker reads Pete Dolack's Low Wages Don't Come Cheap, about wage suppression and the use of public funds to subsidize the profits of the corporate elite. [public domain image via wikipedia] Read more

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Jan Haaken hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick interviews Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinehart on their new book "A People's Curriculum for the Earth". Jan Haaken talks with Katie Gentile about the controversy over Planned Parenthood clinics and the sale of fet... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinehart on their new book *A People's Curriculum for the Earth*—a project focused on teaching students about the environmental crisis and climate justice. This edited volume features some of the best articles from *Rethinki... Read more

Larry Bowlden reviews a 1998 novel by Nancy Kincaid titled "Balls."  The novel takes a look at college football, its excesses and corruption, as seen through the eyes of sixteen women, all of whom are either married to coaches or raising sons who are prospective football... Read more

Tom Becker reads from Gar Alperovitz's article "The War Was Won Before Hiroshima—And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It" from the Nation magazine: Why did the US really drop the bombs? And seventy years after the bombing, will Americans face the brutal truth? ima... Read more

Bill Resnick will host this episode of the Mole and we will hear: - A discussion of the Bernie Sanders campaign and the inspiring revival meeting he conducted Sunday evening in Portland before a huge enthusiastic crowd. What’s so great and exciting about Bernie and wh... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Joseph Schwartz, who expands upon his recent Jacobin Article about the Bernie Sanders campaign.  They discuss the need for mass social movements as well as access to state power. image from Mashable via Jacobin Read more