Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts the Old Mole today and we hear: Green Jobs: Bill Resnick interviews Sam Gindin, who for fifty years has worked to build radical unions. Politics and Secularism: Readings on atheism, morality and politics. Reproductive Rights: Jan Haaken interviews Andra C... Read more

In the second part of a two-part interview, Bill Resnick speaks with Sam Gindin, who has spent nearly 50 years working to build radical unions. He is the former Research Director of the Canadian Autoworkers Union and Packer Visiting Chair in Social Justice at York Univer... Read more

Tom Becker reads from two recent and related articles. “The unbearable wrongness of William Barr: Professor of secular studies explains why secularism doesn’t destroy moral order” is by Phil Zuckerman, Professor of Sociology and Secular Studies at Pitzer College and appe... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: Autoworkers and Climate Change: Bill Resnick talks with Sam Gindin about the United Auto Workers and GM in Canada, and raising expectations around not just bread-and-butter issues but retooling the auto industry to combat clim... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Sam Gindin about the United Auto Workers and GM in Canada, and raising expectations around not just bread-and-butter issues but retooling the auto industry to combat climate change. Sam Gindin is the former Research Director of the Canadian Autowo... Read more

Joe Clement talks with Ron Purser about his new book "McMindfulness: how mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality". This is mindfulness meditation as a commercialized, colonized, corporate version of Buddhist practice promoted for stress reduction and concentra... Read more

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Kirsty Manning’s  2019 novel, The Song of the Jade Lily, about World War II era Jewish refugees in Shanghai. It’s a story about the role that Shanghai played in the rescue of 20,00 refugees from Europe before and during the second world wa... Read more

  Desiree Hellegers covers the Portland Homeless Persons Memorial Day Vigil on December 21st and the very real life and death stakes in the upcoming City Council vote on a 22.5 million dollar five year contract to sweep the city's houseless encampments. Joshua Rainey P... Read more

In their Left and the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker take up a few of 2019's high profile sexual harassment cases against powerful men. They discuss differing legal strategies and their political implications, and comment on "Bombshell," the Hollywood film bas... Read more

  Frann Michel hosts the last Old Mole Variety Hour of 2019, and we hear these pieces: Public Power: Bill Resnick talks with Mari Rose Taruc of the Utility Justice Campaign  of Oakland, CA, which is seeking a publicly-accountable takeover of the investor-owned utility ... Read more