Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris talks with past Old Mole guest Matilda Bernstein Sycamore about her new book, The End of San Francisco. Described as part memoir, part social history, part elegy - The End of San Francisco explores the dream of a radical queer community and the mythical cit... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this membership-drive special and we hear: Joe interview Daniel Gross, co-author of "Labor Law for the Rank and Filer"Bill Resnick talks with Gwen Sullivan of the Portland Association of Teachers about high-stakes testingDenise Morris talks with Matilda... Read more

Joe talks with Dan Gross, co-author with Staughton Lynd of the book, "Labor Law for the Rank and Filer". They talk about labor law as an overall impediment to the labor movement, but how it can still figure into successful organizing today. They also talk about solidarit... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Gwen Sullivan, president of the Portland Association of Teachers, about high-stakes testing. She speaks about the resistance to it we see organizing around the country, and argues this is a fight for and not against education. Read more

On this special membership drive edition, the Old Mole features media scholar and critic Robert McChesney, talking with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about McChesney's new book Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy.  You can get a fre... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Robert McChesney about his recent book Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy and the issues it addresses. They discuss how media that began with great possibilities for democratization have been taken over by... Read more

Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss the documentary A Place at the Table, currently playing in Portland at the Hollywood Theatre, about the serious problem of food insecurity. The film makes vivid the struggles of some of the 50 million Americans who are food insecure... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge talks with radical musicologist Brad Duncan about Black Power as the radicalizing of what had been the more integrationist civil rights movement, and about the roots of soul music in gospel and R&B. They discuss the role of music in preserving cultura... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts and talks with Radical Musicologist Brad Duncan about Black Power and Soul music; Bill Resnick talks with media analyst Robert McChesney about the dangers corporate internet monopolies pose for democracy; and movie moles Denise Morris and Frann ... Read more

Iven Hale hosts this episode and we hear:Bill Resnick talks about the dueling federal budget proposals.Clayton Morgareidge offers a commentary about drones and the government targetting of its own citizensTom Becker reads an essay by Noam Chomsky. Read more