Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Iven Hale hosts this episode and we hear:Movie Moles review the new Jackie Robinson biopic, 42. For those too young to remember, Robinson was a pioneering black baseball player for the Dogers, a member of the Republican Party, and collaborater with HUAC in the 1950s.Well... Read more

"42" is the number Jackie Robinson wore playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers as the first African-American major league baseball player.  And it's the name of the biopic movie now playing.  Our Movie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discuss what the film reveals and doesn'... Read more

Iven Hale hosts this edition of the Old Mole which discusses the political threats to Social Security, the Oregon prison system, a South African fighter against apartheid, and a new film about Jackie Robinson.  Below are links to individual segments of the show.  Or use ... Read more

Social Security, the life line of support for millions, is under attack these days, even from Democrats.  Eric Laursen is the author of The People's Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan.  He talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about why th... Read more

A recent article in Willamette Week praises the Oregon prison system, claiming the system is one of the best in the nation.  Attorney Mike Snedeker debunks this claim as part of the lobbying effort of the prison-industrial complex to keep prisons funded in the face of de... Read more

Well-read Red Alan Wieder introduces and reads from Jay Naidoo's article about South African anti-apartheid activist Chris Hani.  After helping win the battle against apartheid, Hani called for a "culture of service."   "On the eve of the 1994 democratic election, he sai... Read more

Frann Michel and Jan Haaken review the film "No", a 2012 film set during the 1988 plebicite on Augusto Pinochet. It centers on René, a Chilean advertising man played by Gael García Bernal, duringthe struggle between those who support the neoliberal fascist, those part of... Read more

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Bill Resnick talks with Stephanie Luce about workplace organzing and worker self-management, and how they are indispensible elements of progressive vision. They talk about the Labor Notes "Troublemakers School" and the "new unionism" it advances.Stephanie is a labor stud... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Megan Heise, an organizer of the Portland Troublemakers School that's this Saturday (April 13th). They discuss the specifics of the event and some of what people can expect. Megan also describes the Troublemakers' bold (but not exactly new) vision... Read more