Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 The Old Mole's Joe  Clement has been participating in the Portland Occupation's General Assembly, and he reports here about the decision to work with members of the Portland City Charter Commission to change the way we elect city officials to  Instant Run-off Elections ... Read more

 Joe Clement reads an essay titled "Occupy Wall Street Rediscovers The Radical Imagination" by David Graeber, a noted anthropologist-activist involved with Occupy Wall Street. He argues that if anything the occupation movement breaks a decades old consensus about the ine... Read more

 Bill Resnick and Harvey Wasserman talk about the need, the possibility and the way for developing wind and solar energy systems that emphasize distributed, democratic production. Recently, Harvey spoke at Occupy Wall Street. They agree that this should be part of the Wa... Read more

Jan Haaken and Frann Michel discuss "We Were Here - voices from the AIDS years in San Francisco" directed by David Weismann and Bill Weber. The film profiles five people living in San Francisco during the AIDS crisis in the late '70s and 1980s. Frann and Jan note the pow... Read more

        Bill Resnick hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill interview Harvey Wasserman about the relationship between our democratic energy future and Occupy Wall Street. Joe Clement reads an essay by David Graeber about the Radical Imagination set loose by the W... 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

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 follo... 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 wh... 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 a... Read more