Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

The Moles focus entirely on the anti-corporate protests that have spread across the nation, with special attention to Portland and Wall Street.   Clayton Morgareidge hosts.   For information about our theme music and our graphics, go to our main page. You can also follow u... Read more

 Mark Naison teaches African-American Studies at Fordham University in New York where he is also a community organizer and writer on HipHop.  He has been to the Wall Street  protests and talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the promise of the movement.   Read more

 For economist Richard Wolff, the crisis that brings tens  of thousands into the streets is not due to corruption or greed, but the system that grants the rights  of ownership over the stuff we all need in order to make our living to the 1%.  Clayton Morgareidge reads what ... Read more

 Mark Naison teaches African-American Studies at Fordham University in New York, where he is also a community organizer and writes about Hip Hop culture and music.  Here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what he sees happening in his city, university, and acro... Read more

 Noah is an organizer with the IWW who has been participating in the Portland protests and in the General Assembly planning meetings.  Bill Resnick talks with him about his experience and perspective.  For information on meetings and marches, go here.   Read more

The original Old Mole (our founder) Bill Resnick has thought long and hard about protest movements and democracy, and here he sums up his assessment of what the movement needs to do to have a future and to make real change. Read more

Joe Clement hosts and we hear:Bill Resnick on the Occupy Wall Street and up-coming Occupy Portland protests.Movie Moles, Denise Morris and Laurie Mercier, discuss the documentary American Dream, which looks at local union resistance in one of Hormel's meat-packing plants in... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Mark Engler about the Wall Street protests, contexualizing them in terms of the economic crisis and global protests, as well as underscoring what they're doing right. Mark Engler is a writer and analyst at Foreign Policy. His website is www.democr... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with the Director of Disability Rights Oregon, Bob Joondepth, about community mental health issuea and House Bill 3100 and Senate Bill 420, which affect the Oregon State Hospital. Read more

Joe Clement talks with Ivy Knight of the Occupy Portland rally about what it is, the organization involved, and how people can get involved. There are many items - food, rain-repelling supplies, musical instruments, etc. - that they need and which you can find solicited on... Read more