Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Norm underscores how May Day is about the recognition of class-structure in society. Abigail offers her perspective as a worker with the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee. They talk about the meaning of the song bread and roses and social justice organizing, ... Read more

Norm Diamond and Abigail Singer co-host today's special May Day Old Mole, which focuses on the Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and events expected for May Day. We hear: Norm talk with labor journalist and historian, Steve E... Read more

Bill Resnick has Terran Connally of the Portland Liberation Organizing Council, which has grown out of the Occupy movement, to talk about events and expectations for May Day 2012 in Portland. They consider the potential for this May Day to be the single greatest concerte... Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge will be our host on this edition of the Old Mole featuring -- A conversation with Portland activist Angela Zehava about the April 28 action by Unite Against the War On Women to oppose anti-women legislation coming out of Congress and State leg... Read more

The wars of occupation in Afghanistan and Iraq are producing a population of broken ex-soldiers US society is not equipped to deal with. In this conversation with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick, author and activist Tod Ensign details the many ways in which these wars drive ... Read more

 Hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, this program features discussions of the injuries of war, fighting back against the war on women, and the 1981 Warren Beatty movie Reds.   1.  Author and activist Tod Ensign talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the terrible impact ... Read more

Legislation and rhetoric is "taking place in our House of Representatives, the media and many of the States across our country attacking the rights of women…from reproductive rights to voting rights to human rights."  In other words, there is a war against women.  United... Read more

This program takes its name, “the Old Mole,” from Marx’s image for the Revolution that works underground and suddenly emerges into daylight where least expected.  The first revolution approaching what he had in mind was the October Revolution in Russia in 1917.  In 1981,... Read more

  Tom Becker hosts this show which includes -- A conversation with Oregon scholar Chuck Scheketoff about taxes: who pays how much and how to make them fairer; Discussion with Chuck Collins about his new book 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World a... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Chuck Sheketoff, executive director of the Oregon Center for Public Policy. They talk about the corporations that don't pay any appreciable taxes in Oregon, how they get away with it, why public services rather than tax-cuts support business, and ... Read more