Frann Michel and Joe Clement review the documentary "Shift Change", directed/produced by Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young. The documentary surveys several cooperatively owned and managed businesses, mostly in the United States but also Spain's famous Mondragon. We hear from worker-owners, as well as activists who support the co-op movement in material and financial ways, about how working at co-ops is not just different, but better than regular wage jobs.

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Mole, featuring discussions of consumerism and freedom, Syria, gun violence, and a conference on Labor History in the Pacific Northwest.  

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Rob Dietz, co-author with Dan O'Neill of Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resoures, talks with Old Mole Bill Resnick about building a political movement for moving beyond the pleasures of consumerism to other ways of enjoying life.

On this special Earth Day Old Mole Variety Hour, Joe Clement hosts, and we hear

- Joe talks with Jeff Shantz about Green Syndicalism: An Alternative Red / Green Vision

- Bill Resnick talks with Robert Dietz about Advancing a Steady State Economy

- Tom Becker reads from David Graeber's Practical Utopians Guide to the Coming Collapse

Joe Clement reads from Matt Breunig's blog on why we should just give everyone food stamps.

Tom Becker reads from David Graeber's "Work it Out, Slow it Down," exerpted from his Practical Utopians Guide to the Coming Collapse, on the dangers of overproduction and the need to respond differently to economic and environmental crisis.