Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Jan Haaken talks with Mike Snedecker, an appellate lawyer, in another installment of the Left and the Law. Today they discuss violence near the Mexican border and portrayals of this violence in the United States as simply a Mexican problem. Fueling the violence are U.S. fo... Read more

 Bill Resnick talks with Koyla Abramsky about the social forces shaping the development of new energy resources and the direction that collective action vs. corporate interests can take this development. Kolya is a former secretariat of the World Wind Energy Institute. He is... Read more

 Well Read Red, Tom Becker, draws on two articles* to connect the ideology of economic growth with growing poverty/unemployment and growing concentration of wealth. *Dave Lindorf's "Obama's Rose-Colored Glasses: Growth Has Little To Do With Jobs or Reducing Poverty" *David ... Read more

  Tom Becker hosts today's show which looks at  legal complicity in the drug-war, de-centralized energy production, why the rich are faring so well during the crisis, and the new Michael Cera film, "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World." Below are links to individual segments (forth... Read more

 Steven Hill, in a conversation with Bill Resnick, demolishes the myth of Europe as sclerotic and failing; it is a dynamic society responding better than the US to global warming and challenging economic times.  It's social welfare programs are not alternatives to work, but... Read more

 The "Dream Act" is  a bill that would offer undocumented  youth a path to citizenship based on two years of college or two years  of military service.  In this conversation with the Old Mole's Denise Morris, Brian Galaviz, a Chicago organizer, explains why the current prop... Read more

 Is the ongoing crisis in the economy offering us an opportunity to reverse the capitalist reconstruction of our souls?  Clayton Morgareidge reads from  a piece by French writers Pierre Bardot and Christian Laval. Read more

  Joe Clement hosts this Labor Day show and features labor songs from the past and present.   Also on the program, a discussion of the European response to environmental and economic crisis, the military targeting of Latino youth through the "Dream Act," and the opportunity... Read more

 How does music work as a form of organizing?  What's the difference between protest songs sung by a musician from the stage and a song everyone sings together?  Josh Wise, director of the Twin Cities Labor Chorus, discusses the music heard on this program (all of which is ... Read more

 Wealthy people often give large amounts to charity, and everyone is encouraged to contribute to charities.   But does charity, besides whatever good it does in the world, distract us from solving the real problems that charity so inadequately deals with?  Joe Clement draws... Read more