Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Workers occupied and operated factories being closed by their owners in Argentina during a time of financial collapse.  Jan Haaken and Nancy Hollander discuss the documentary film about those events, The Take.  Read more

 After the eviction of the Occupy Portland encampments at Chapman and Lownsdale Squares, where does the movement go from here?  Bill Resnick talks with two occupiers, Kate Sherman and Jay, about what might be ahead.   Read more

Tom Becker hosts this show focusing on Occupations, especially here in Portland.  We hear extensive interviews with participants in the local Occupation, an indictment of the "Party of Wall Street," and aboutfactory occupations in Argentina. For information about our the... Read more

Marxist scholar and teacher David Harvey argues, "The aim of [the OW movement] in the United States is simple. It says: “We the people are determined to take back our country from the moneyed powers that currently run it." Host Tom Becker reads from David Harvey's blog a... Read more

Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker, our Left and the Law duo, discuss the constitutional right to peaceful assembly in the context of the occupation movement and the question of enforcing local laws that limit it. They pay some special att... Read more

Joe Clement and Frann Michel turn to this film because of its obviously critical message about late capitalism, and the way some of its complaints, seemingly new and unprescedented at the time, resonate with the Occupy Wall Street movement today. But they have mixed feel... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge reads various responses to the concern some have expressed about the involvement of homeless people in the Occupy Wall Street movement. He offers a positive assessment that sees the movement benefiting from the homeless involvement. He suggests that l... Read more

Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker talk about the right of assembly and how it comes into play for the Occupy movement. They consider the role of elected leaders to make discretionary calls in managing assemblies and the importance of protecting First Amendment rights, but al... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with John Miller about how the US and other countries have been handling the debt-crisis. They cover the congressional super-committee  formed in the US and the austerity measures they are considering. John describes the People's Budget , which calls f... Read more

    Joe Clement hosts this show and we hear: The Left and the Law talk about Right of Assembly and the Occupy movement. Bill Resnick interviews John Miller about intervening in debt-crises. Joe and Frann Michel review John Carpenter's 1988 sci-fi cult-class "... Read more