Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Bill Resnick talks with Elizabeth Theil, vice-president of the Portland Association of Teachers, on the state-wide teachers’ walkout Wednesday, May 8th, to protest chronic underfunding and demand adequate resources. Local actions in Portland begin at 8:30 am and conver... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Christina Harris, SEIU organizer for Portland Park and Recreation workers, on the importance of city parks and community centers, and the absurdity of such a wealthy city not spending the resources it has on the well-being of its residents. Th... Read more

  Jan Haaken talks with Marianna Coles-Curtis, a poet and organizer, about a recent court victory for immigration activists on the University of Arizona campus, where activism led to trumped-up charges being dropped against students protesting the Border Patrol.     Read more

  Thom Becker hosts this episode about political and budget priorities and the power of action in solidarity: Interview with Elizabeth Theil, vice-president of the Portland Association of Teachers, on the state-wide teachers strike this Wednesday, May 8th. Interview wit... Read more

Laurie Mercier hosts this episode of the Mole celebrating May Day, International Workers Day, and we hear:  Laurie speaks with Lane Windham, who worked for twenty years in the labor movement and is now Associate Director of Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initia... Read more

 Laurie Mercier speaks with Lane Windham, who worked for twenty years in the labor movement and is now Associate Director of Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, about her book Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 19... Read more

Bill Resnick and Aaron Brenner discuss some lessons from the past and present for reviving labor militancy and revolts from below. Aaron Brenner is a labor historian and organizer for the Food and Commercial Workers Union. They discuss the importance of history, and labo... Read more

Desiree Hellegers interviews Portland activists Sam and Alana about OccupyICEPDX and the late Dani Henri Sommerville, also known as Dani Summers, and Dani Som, a twenty year old musician/songwriter,  with OccupyICE/PDX, who died in February. Scroll down for a transcript ... Read more

  Denise Morris hosts. Bill Resnick interviews Joanna Misnik about Chicago and the DSA's success in their recent election winning six seats in the 50 person city council. Clayton Morgareidge discusses Music, Language, and Capitalism.  Jan Haaken talks with Anais Tuepke... Read more

Music, Language, and Capitalism[*] I was thinking about  how music and language are alike and yet different, and this is the train of thought that came to me. We might think of music as structuring time. Music exists in time, and moves through time by changing pitch, vol... Read more