Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show about controlling problem children with psychoactive drugs, controlling our attitudes towards rich folks with an art museum, and the struggle of Verizon workers against the control of their lives by the company.  For information about ou... Read more

 For a show featuring uprisings by peoples all around the world, as well as a movie about the revolt of non-human apes, Brad Duncan has selected music that articulates the urge to throw off the chains of oppression. Here you can hear excerpts of that music and a discussion ... Read more

 Denise Morris hosts this show featuring the music of rebellion.   Bill Resnick analyzes recent people's uprisings in Europe and Israel, and the Movie Moles review Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a film about an animal uprising against human masters.   And Bill talks with i... Read more

On the next Old Mole, Denise Morris hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick interview Lance Tapley about prison reform Movie Moles, Joe Clement and Frann Michel, talk about Rise of the Planet of the Apes Bill comments on the uprisings in Israel and England Radica... Read more

 Egypt, Wisconsin, Greece, Spain, and now Britain -- the increasingly ferocious protests are spreading.  What does it all mean?  Are they just looters, as many politicians and the mainstream press claim?  Or are they protesting in the only way they can to draw attention to ... Read more

 Lance Tapely is an investigative journalist in Maine whose work has exposed the use  of  solitary confinement as a punishment in prisons and jails and led  to some reforms.  He talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the destructive  effects of solitary on its vi... Read more

 Movie Moles Frann Michel and Joe Clement explore the issues of race, gender, and social transformation raised, or not, by the the new film Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Read more

On the next Old Mole, Tom Becker hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Sam Pizzigati about how the rich do not invest like conservatives ideologues say that they will if only we give them tax breaks, and how we need to tax their wealth, not just their income. ... Read more

While many accuse the Tea Party of polarizing politics, Sam Pizzigati argues that the source is really economic inequality and the concentration of vast amounts of wealth. He talks about a few economic myths, like how the US is "broke" or that the rich are "job creators". B... Read more

Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole and we hear:   Bill Resnick interview Sam Pizzigati about inequality Tom reads an article on Empire and Inequality Larry Bowlden reviews Sheila Kohler's "Love Child" Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Wendy Webb talk about "If A Tree... Read more