Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

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

Larry Bowlden reviews an earlier work by Jennifer Egan (a Pulitzer prize-winner for her 2010 novel "The Goon Squad"), "Look at Me". Larry considers Egan's exploration of identity and how others see us affects and effects us. Read more

 Tom Becker hosts this episode where we hear about the Portland Troublemakers School (April 13th) from two of its organizers, a movie review of "No", a discussion about the crises in Europe, and a book review of Jennifer Egan's "Look At Me". An error clipped the first co... Read more

Joe Clement hosts and we hear:Joe talks with Dan Gross, co-author with Staughton Lynd of the book, "Labor Law for the Rank and Filer". They talk about labor law as an overall impediment to the labor movement, but how it can still figure into successful organizing today. ... Read more

Joe talks with Dan Gross, co-author with Staughton Lynd of the book, "Labor Law for the Rank and Filer". They talk about labor law as an overall impediment to the labor movement, but how it can still figure into successful organizing today. They also talk about solidarit... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Gwen Sullivan, president of the Portland Association of Teachers, about high-stakes testing. She speaks about the resistance to it we see organizing around the country, and argues this is a fight for and not against education. Read more

Denise Morris talks with past Old Mole guest Matilda Bernstein Sycamore about her new book, The End of San Francisco. Described as part memoir, part social history, part elegy - The End of San Francisco explores the dream of a radical queer community and the mythical cit... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this membership-drive special and we hear: Joe interview Daniel Gross, co-author of "Labor Law for the Rank and Filer"Bill Resnick talks with Gwen Sullivan of the Portland Association of Teachers about high-stakes testingDenise Morris talks with Matilda... Read more

On this special membership drive edition, the Old Mole features media scholar and critic Robert McChesney, talking with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about McChesney's new book Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy.  You can get a fre... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge talks with radical musicologist Brad Duncan about Black Power as the radicalizing of what had been the more integrationist civil rights movement, and about the roots of soul music in gospel and R&B. They discuss the role of music in preserving cultura... Read more