Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with Frédéric Mousseau about agroecology: farming, ecology, and food. Mousseau is the Policy Director at the Oakland Institute where he coordinates the Institute’s research and advocacy activities on land investment, food security and agricult... Read more

Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews China Dog and Other stories from a Chinese Laundry, by Judy Fong Bates. As in her perceptive and wise debut novel Midnight at the Dragon Cafe,  Bates describes what it was like to grow up between two cultures. Her Chinese parents want ... Read more

Would a socialist society be a boring and mediocre world? Not so, according to Danny Katch writing on the Jacobin Magazine blog. Clayton Morgareidge reads an edited version. The complete version is here. Image is Decor design for Gozzi’s play Princess Turandot (1922). Ign... Read more

On their Left and the Law segment today, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker talk about the politics of parole boards in the U.S.. They discuss a case taken up by the Post-conviction Justice Project in California around denial of parole rights--and they look at how parole board... Read more

Tom Becker hosts the show and we learn about how agroecology can help save the planet and feed the people; about the life of early Chinese immigrants to Canada; why socialism, far from being boring, will unleash human creativity; and about the history and politics of par... Read more

Denise Morris Hosts this Episode of The Old Mole Variety Hour which includes Bill Resnick interviews Gwen Sullivan President of the Portland Association of Teachers. Sullivan evaluates the extent to which teachers have succeeded in building what teachers promised in t... Read more

Tod Sloan reads from Rebecca Solnit's "Hope In The Dark", here's just a snippet: "Causes and effects assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries o... Read more

Denise Morris interviews Old Mole and organizer, Joe Clement, about the Portland Renters Assembly. They talk briefly about what the assemblies have been about, what issues have been coming up, and how people can get involved.  The Portland Renters Assembly has its planni... Read more

Denise Morris interviews Old Mole and organizer, Joe Clement, about the Portland Renters Assembly. They talk briefly about what the assemblies have been about, what issues have been coming up, and how people can get involved.  The Portland Renters Assembly has its planni... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Gwen Sullivan of the Portland Association of Teachers about how things have been going since they won their latest contract Joe Clement reads a pamphlet about organizing a citywide tenants unio... Read more