Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Denise Morris talks with co-founder David Weisman about the Queer Documentary Film Festival, now in its 6th year. They talk about the significance of this film festival that show-cases only queer films. Films will be showing between May 17th and the 20th at the McMenami... Read more

 Old Mole, Clayton Morgareidge, comments on various proposals to increase taxes on the rich. Is this enough to create economic justice or does it justify the economic arrangements that produced inequality in the first place? Listen to this brief commentary to find out. H... Read more

 Bill Resnick talks with biologist Lisa Wesal about chemical pollution. Read more

 Bill Resnick interviews Judy Barnes, cofounder of Oregonians for Renewable Energy Policy, about resistance to coal mining/transporting/burning in Oregon, democratizing energy production, and policy that promotes renewable energy in Oregon. Read more

 Bill Resnick interviews Harvey Wasserman: journalist, green energy activist and critic of nuclear power. They talk about continuing problems with nuclear plants, tactics ordinary people are using to shut them down, the struggle with coal energy, and about his newest boo... Read more

Joe Clement reads a CounterPunch article by trade-unionist, Alberto Ruiz, called The US Labor Movement and China. Ruiz criticizes the stigmatization of foreign labor by US unionists and explores the dark pro-imperialist history of the AFL-CIO, as well as the vigor of the... Read more

 Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole, which is shorter than usual because of membership-drive. We hear about growing concern with and resistance to nuclear energy, ecologically driven energy policy in Oregon, and about labor chauvinism toward China. Bill Resnick interv... Read more

    Norm Diamond hosts this Old Mole May Day Special program about working class struggles, then and now.  This is the 100 year anniversary of the big textile workers’ strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts.  We’ll report on the April 28 celebration in Lawrence and look ahead... Read more

Norm Diamond talks with Steve Early, who attended a symposium in Lawrence Massechusetts about the Lawrence Strike of 1912 (here's a PDF of the schedule). They talked about why there is renewed interest in the Lawrence Strike, even as it was nearly erased from labor histo... Read more

Norm and Abigail talk with Marie and Larry of the Portland Branch of the Industr ial Workers of the World (IWW) about the Lawrence Textile strike, the significance of the IWW in the strike and the long-term significance of the strike for the IWW. They consider the irony ... Read more