Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

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

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

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

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

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