Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  One of the most important thinkers following Marx and who extended our understanding of capitalism and how it shapes our lives was the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Although his life was shortened by a long prison term imposed by Mussolini, his Prison Notebooks con... Read more

The abolition of chattel slavery, the Civil Rights movement, and the Women's movement, partial and inadequate as they are, leave untouched a kind of slavery that is pervasive and nearly invisible. Clayton Morgareidge explains how we are all enslaved by the domination of ... Read more

  Laurie Mercier hosts this episode, which festures these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Jessica Tovar of Local Clean Energy Alliance Movie Moles recommend the science fiction comedy Sorry to Bother You Laurie Mercier interviews Martin Duberman about gay movement and po... Read more

  Bill Resnick interviews Jessica Tovar, an organizer with the Local Clean Energy Alliance in California, about how California cities and counties are taking over the electric energy systems from the privately held Investor Owned Utilities such as PGE, and with new demo... Read more

  Laurie Mercier interviews Martin Duberman, award-winning historian, playwright, and long-time activist about his new book, “Has the Gay Movement Failed?”      Read more

  Jan Haaken and Frann Michel review and recommend the science fiction comedy film Sorry to Bother You, written and directed by Boots Riley. They discuss code switching and the use of white voice. They note that it fails the Bechdel test and the female character does r... Read more

Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discuss the article "Power Causes Brain Damage: How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise," written by Jerry Useem for Atlantic Monthly July/August.  Photo Credit:  Universal ... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Lluvia Magali Merello and Tanya Golden, members of the Oregon Vending Community, about native vending practices and organizing. They discuss the work of vending, and their own work in organizing vendors as a community.  Lluvia creates arts, crafts a... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this show, and we hear: 1. West Virginia teacher and organizer Nicole McCormick talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what went into the successful strike there. 2. Elizabeth Theil, Vice President of Portland Association of Teachers, explains h... Read more

  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes Portland Rising and Portland Association of Teachers is bringing Nicole McCormick, a leader of the WV teachers strike, to Portland to talk about the strike, lessons learned. Bill Resnick talks with Nicol... Read more