Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick and Chuck Collins talks about how inequality is ruining the world. Chuck points out how the concentration of wealth undermines democracy, the economy and our capacity to do anything about large-scale problems. They talk about public campaign finance reform, ... Read more

Tom Becker reads  David Michael Green's CounterPunch essay: "A Very Sick Country: deep maladies of the body politic". Green argues that, while it's not all bad, core features of the American political system -- the president, the electoral system, judicial review, state ... Read more

                 Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and with musical interludes from Leonard Cohen we hear:   Bill Resnick talk with Chuck Collins about what wealth inequality is doing to us. Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel review "The Hunger Ga... Read more

 Occupy Portland will be bursting from its winter quarters onto the streets very soon.  The Old Mole's Bill Resnick talks with two local activists about how the movement has been building over the winter and what to expect as the weather warms.  First we hear from Joe Li... Read more

 Movie Moles Joe Clement and Jan Haaken review the 1984 John Sayles film Brother From Another Planet about a mysterious alien who lands in New York while escaping from slavery on "another planet" and experiences the problems of American society from a unique perspective.   Read more

Jan Haaken talks with attorney Mike Snedeker about Steven T. Wax's new book Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror - A Public Defender's Inside Account.  Wax is the head of the Oregon Federal Public Defenders’ office and has represented prisone... Read more

 Denise Morris hosts this show on which we hear from activists working for immigrant rights and for the Spring return of Occupy Portland. We also hear a review of the 1984 John Sayles movie Brother From Another Planet and a discussion of the book Kafka Comes to America: ... Read more

The constant threat of deportation makes the lives of immigrants insecure.  CAUSA, Oregon's immigrant rights organization, is holding an Insecure Communities Forum this Friday, April 13, at 7 pm at the First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 13th Avenue in Portland.  Erica Stein... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Kristian Williams, Portland-resident and renknown scholar of policing and police history, about the murder of Treyvon Martin. Kristian re-caps the case and those like it, but also comments on the nature of the "stand your ground" laws that have be... Read more

Joe Clement talks with fellow Mole Jan Haaken about the significance of Adrienne Rich's prose writing about motherhood for the feminist movement in the 1970s. Read more