Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Continuing the Left and the Law, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker talk about reactions to the release of 850 low-risk offenders from Oregon State Prisons. They talk about Govenor Kitzhaber's Public Safety Commission's recommendation, how the risk of these offenders is asse... Read more

  Jan Haaken hosts this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour, about 20 minutes shorter because of the membership-drive. Through-out the show we hear some of the music of local hip-hop activist-artist, Mic Crenshaw. Jan mentioned his appearance at the Paid Sick Days Now r... Read more

 Bill Resnick talks with Stephanie Coontz about the "end of men hypothesis" that she argues conflates two trends: greater equality  and opportunity for women, on the one hand, and the all-around explosion of inequality in the USA that hits men particularly hard because o... Read more

 Larry Bowlden reviews Jeffery Eugenides' "The Marriage Plot", which follows the trajectories of three college seniors. Larry explores how Eugenides expresses in the voices of his key characters the influence of Charles Dickens, Edith Warton, Henry James, Anthony Trollop... Read more

  Bill Resnick or Jan Haaken hosts this membership-drive special on DRUGS Bill Resnick interviews Sanho Tree about the costs of the war on drugs and already functional alternatives to the prohibitionist regeme we have in the United States. Iven Hale, who works i... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick discusses the NFL referee lockout. He considers their complaint over pensions, how unions promote high work standards, and why unions need to shed their bureacratic service-orientation for a rank-and-file so... Read more

Bill Resnick and Peter Rachleff discuss the NFL referee lockout and dispute over pensions vs. 401K. Peter explains the difference between pensions and 401K plans, the missed opportunity to speak out the working-class, connecting workplace with consumer-activism.   Peter ... Read more

Joe Clement reads "Consumer Rage: this is your labor movement under capitalism", an essay from PruningShears.us by MadTownAnnie. They criticize the appeal to lost consumer value made by those critical of the NFL's recent dispute with and lockout of its referees over reti... Read more

Laurie Mercier talks with Michael Zweig about US Labor Against The War, a reform-coalition of hundreds of unions, central labor councils and state federations who are united in opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are organizing  workers to put pressure o... Read more

After an amusing reading of Bertolt Brecht's short-story "If Sharks Were Men", Joe Clement comments on the unfortunately enduring message it imparts about class-exploitation and imperial war. The original video from which the audio has been used can be found here. Read more