Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy is a new book by Paul Apostolidis about the social activism of Mexican immigrants.  He teaches at Whitman College and with his students has been helping to organize Washington State farm  worke... Read more

In arguing for  an end to the discriminatory "Don't ask, don't tell"  law against gays serving openly in the military, many progressives wind up supporting what the military does -- fight wars to maintain US hegemony.  Writer and activist Yasmin Nair talks with the Old M... Read more

What happens if you turn 18 without papers making you a citizen or a legal resident?   Papers is a new documentary film about the difficulties young people face when they can't go to school, get a drivers license, or  work.   Laurie Mercier talks with the producer Rebecc... Read more

This show is hosted by Denise Morris and focuses on immigration and  the possible repeal  of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.  It also  features music by The B Side, a San Diego based band, described as  "War meets  Lenny Kravitz by way of  Ben Harper."   F... Read more

Many thousands of undocumented immigrants in the US were forced out of their home countries by NAFTA and invited in by corporations and agribusiness seeking cheap labor.  Now they are being punished by anti-immigrant laws and sentiment.  Manuel Perez, a scholar at the In... Read more

How much robbing of the rich and giving to the poor goes on in the new Robin Hood movie?  Find out from our Movie Moles Frann Michel and Denise Morris.   Read Frann's blog, with more links about the movie and the myth, here. Read more

 Larry Bowlden reviews Minrose Gwin's novel The Queen of Palmyra about a young white girl coming to perceive Southern racism in 1960s Mississippi.   To read many of Larry's past reviews, go here.   Read more

 After some excerpts from their music, Radical Musicologist Brad Duncan talks with Bill Resnick about the "Tropicalia" movement in Brazil from the late 60s.  These artists combined traditional Brazilian music with psychedelic pop from Europe and the US and embodies the s... Read more

 This show is hosted by Bill Resnick and features the Movie Moles, Frann Michel and Denise Morris, skewering "Robin Hood," Book Mole Larry Bowlden finding much to admire in Minrose Gwin's new novel The Queen of Palmyra.  Manuel Perez from the Institute for Policy Studies... Read more

 Hosted by Tom Becker, this program features segments on the politics and science of energy policies and cleaning up after oil spills.  We also learn about the blowback from drone attacks and a comic documentary about grafitti and video. Many thanks to those of you who c... Read more