Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Today the Moles  reflect  on the Obama victory: its impact on black folks and the left’s response: euphoria, high hopes, and the advice he’s  getting on health care,  unions, the environment, as well as worries about his first appointments.   We’ll also hear  a  tribute ... Read more

The Old Mole's Bill Resnick talks with Malik Miah, airline machinist and writer, about workers' responses to the Obama victory and what the next four years may hold for progressives.  Miah's work appears in Against the Current and  Green Left. Read more

Barack Obama's  Dual Mandate:  Tom Becker reads from  the website  of Solidarity, a  socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization.  Read more

This week the Moles pay tribute to the momentous  election of last Tuesday and assess what  it might and might not mean.   We also remember the late Studs Terkel.   To  hear the whole show, use the arrow above.  For  separate  pieces, follow the links below: 1.   Bill Re... Read more

Dicentra is a Portland, OR area collective actively engaged in creating radical communities of care, networks of support, and movements based on relationship building.  Two of its members, Amelia Cates and Claire Berrera, talk with Denise Morris about the project.  Berre... Read more

  Bill Resnick looks at the entrenched forces in the US policy making apparatus that will challenge the new President -- like the Federal Reserve,  the army, and the dominant role in Congress of conservative Democrats.  Denise Morris interviews an activist from Dicen... Read more

What are the challenges the new President will face?  How much can a president do to put the nation on a different course?  Ezra Klein, a policy analyst who writes for The American Prospect and many other publications, talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.  Read more

Two ballot measures in Oregon would have major impact on unions.  Denise Morris and Wesley Buchholz explain. Read more

Hosted by Denise Morris, this election-eve show discusses the prospects  for  an Obama presidency, a couple of Oregon ballot measures impacting unions, and a new program to enhance caring for people in chronic pain and suffering with mental illness.  Hear the whole show ... Read more

What can we expect / hope for from an Obama presidency?  What should we not expect?  Bill Resnick reads a piece by David Sirota and  adds his own comments.  Sirota's piece is "Mandate 08".  Read more