Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker is our host, and we will hear An interview about the prospects for a General Strike in Oakland, called by Occupy Oakland. It could be very dramatic, Oakland being a union town with very active ILWU and Teamsters on the scene. Tom fills us in on where ... Read more

 Occupy Oakland is calling for a city-wide strike for Wednesday.   Bill Balderston is a long-time teacher, activist, and writer in Oakland, and now working with Occupy Oakland.  Here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what's going on there and the prospects ... Read more

 Host Tom Becker reads an indictment of the frauds perpetrated by the finance industry that brought on the this  long-lasting economic crisis.  It's by former Wall-streeter Paul Craig Roberts; it's called "Reckless Endangerment: Totally Corrupt America." Read more

Constructed from footage and interviews done by Swedish filmmakers in the late 60s and early 70s, Black Power Mixtapes shows never-before seen sides of major players in the movement.  Our Movie Moles Denise Morris and Laurie Mercier discuss what it tells us.  The film is... Read more

 Tom Becker is our host for this program dealing with the "General Strike" being called for by Occupy Oakland, the fraud and corruption of Wall Street, some music about death row, and a film about the Black power movement of the 1960s using never-before seen footage.   F... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this show dealing mostly with the growing Occupations, from Wall Street to Portland and beyond. We hear from people on the ground in New York, including two parents who participated in a  sleep-over with their kid.   We also get news about a concrete ... Read more

 What will it take for the Occupation movement to maintain its momentum and grow?  Stephanie Luce, who teaches Labor Studies at the City University of New York, has been very active in the Wall Street Occupation, and she talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about ... Read more

What happened inside a big investment bank when it suddenly realized that what it was selling was going to be worthless? The new movie Margin Call, with Kevin Spacey and Jeremy Irons, takes us inside, and our Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Joe Clement discuss the film's pol... Read more

 Last weekend, hundreds of children and their parents  had a sleepover at the Wall Street Occupation.   Two parents who participated talk with Bill Resnick about why they did it and and what it was like.   Read more

 Philosophers have often tried to prove that God exists, but belief is rarely the result of  logic.   Novelist and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein, in her novel Thirty-six Arguements for the Existence of God,  tells a rich story set in academia about the philosophy and psy... Read more