Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Just Banking, Queer Justice Bill Resnick talks with attorney, author, and president of the Public Banking Institute Ellen Brown about alternative public and community banking, radical banks devoted to investing in worker cooperatives, all to replace the predatory too b... Read more

Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode features Bill Resnick talking with Don McIntosh about Trimet and with Ellen Brown about Public Banking, as well as Denise Morris talking with Catherine Sameh about the Scholar and Feminist Online. Music by Django Reinhardt.   Bill Re... Read more

Denise Morris talks with founding mole Catherine Sameh, co-founder of In Other Words and currently Associate Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and managing editor of The Scholar & Feminist Online. They discuss social justice feminism, the history ... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Don McIntosh, reporter for Northwest Labor Press, about TriMet, the health impact of driving a bus, the need for public transportation, and the possibility of raising the payroll tax that provides funding for public transportation. Read more

Frann Michel reads comments on neoliberalism from two essays from The Scholar and Feminist Online: Robert McRuer on Cripping Queer Politics and Lisa Duggan on After Neoliberalism. Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with attorney, author, and founder of The Public Banking Institute Ellen H. Brown about examples of public and cooperative banking, including the State Bank of North Dakota, value-based banking, local German banks, cooperative banking in Japan, the S... Read more

On Monday’s (July 16) Old Mole Variety Hour: Bill Resnick speaks with Arne Jungjohan, a senior advisor for energy of the German Green Party and Director for the Environment and Global Dialogue Program of the Boell Foundation. They discuss the achievements of German comm... Read more

  Bill Resnick speaks with Arne Jungjohan, a senior advisor for energy of the German Green Party and Director for the Environment and Global Dialogue Program of the Boell Foundation. They discuss the achievements of German community, green, and anti-nuke movements in re... Read more

  Larry Bowlden reviews the coming-of-age-in-the-seventies book by Jessica Anya Blau, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties. While those who were adults in the 1970s found the era liberating, Blau offers well-written and humorous reflections on the difficulties of too-early... Read more

  Joe Clement talks to Jan Haaken about an upcoming screening of her new film Mind Zone: Therapists Behind The Front Lines on July 19 at the NW Film Center. The film explores the work of clinicians that deploy with Army combat stress control units in Afghanistan and ho... Read more