Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Zaratha Young is with Transition PDX organizing Portland neighborhood committees to reduce energy use and build an environmental ethic.  Bill Resnick talks with her about the work.  Read all about it at their website.   Read more

Denise Morris hosts this program about the future of the US Postal Service, whether capitalism has a future, building sustainable neighborhoods in Portland, and the lives of British working class women.   Event:  Bushra Kaliq, General Secretary of the Pakistan Women's Worker... Read more

This edition of the Mole is hosted by Tom Becker, and its topics include the future of Social Security, Israel's  impunity from the law, problems of the prison system and what can be done about them, and the havoc wreaked upon the forests and the people by Texaco-Chevron in... Read more

 There is no crisis for Social Security funding, in spite of what we hear from politicians and news media.  Nancy Altman of  Social Security Works explains why we keep hearing about this phony crisis in this conversation with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.  Altman has been st... Read more

Both the attack on the flotilla and the siege of Gaza are illegal, argues George Bisharat in this succinct article from Counterpunch, read here by Old Mole Tom Becker.    Read more

 In this conversation from their series The Left and the Law, attorney Mike Snedeker and psychologist Jan  Haaken explore the enormous economic and human costs of the prison system and some of the reasons why we continue to bear those costs.  Mike and Jan earlier discussed ... Read more

 Investigative film maker Joe Berlinger talks with the Old Mole's Wendy Webb about his new film Crude. The film details the Amazon oil disaster that is the subject of the largest environmental law suit in history.  Berlinger has made many award-winning documentary films.   Read more

Bill talks with Mark Weisbrot about his recent op-ed, "A New World Order is Possible and Needed." Specifically, Mark explores the rising affluence of middle-powers in Latin America, and how their engagement in world politics goes beyond narrowly defined self-interests. Mar... Read more

Laurie outlines recent challenges to the labor movement, including unresponsive politicians and attacks to the Employee Free-Choice Act, which would shield employees from employer intimidation if they tried to unionize. Returning to an interview in May with Les Leopold, Lau... Read more

Bill talks with Maggie Long, Director of Property Services with SEIU Local 49, about Metro's decision to switch to non-union janitors, and the Justice for Janitors march happening on Tuesday the 15th. Click here for more information about Justice for Janitors. Read more