Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

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

  Jan Haaken and Frann Michel discuss the dystiopian futuristic film, "The Hunger Games", directed by Gary Ross. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, a participant in the national "hunger games" instituted by the oppressive continental state years ago a... Read more

Bill Resnick and Chuck Collins talks about how inequality is ruining the world. Chuck points out how the concentration of wealth undermines democracy, the economy and our capacity to do anything about large-scale problems. They talk about public campaign finance reform, ... Read more

Tom Becker reads  David Michael Green's CounterPunch essay: "A Very Sick Country: deep maladies of the body politic". Green argues that, while it's not all bad, core features of the American political system -- the president, the electoral system, judicial review, state ... Read more

The constant threat of deportation makes the lives of immigrants insecure.  CAUSA, Oregon's immigrant rights organization, is holding an Insecure Communities Forum this Friday, April 13, at 7 pm at the First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 13th Avenue in Portland.  Erica Stein... Read more

 Occupy Portland will be bursting from its winter quarters onto the streets very soon.  The Old Mole's Bill Resnick talks with two local activists about how the movement has been building over the winter and what to expect as the weather warms.  First we hear from Joe Li... Read more

 Movie Moles Joe Clement and Jan Haaken review the 1984 John Sayles film Brother From Another Planet about a mysterious alien who lands in New York while escaping from slavery on "another planet" and experiences the problems of American society from a unique perspective.   Read more

Jan Haaken talks with attorney Mike Snedeker about Steven T. Wax's new book Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror - A Public Defender's Inside Account.  Wax is the head of the Oregon Federal Public Defenders’ office and has represented prisone... Read more

 Denise Morris hosts this show on which we hear from activists working for immigrant rights and for the Spring return of Occupy Portland. We also hear a review of the 1984 John Sayles movie Brother From Another Planet and a discussion of the book Kafka Comes to America: ... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Kristian Williams, Portland-resident and renknown scholar of policing and police history, about the murder of Treyvon Martin. Kristian re-caps the case and those like it, but also comments on the nature of the "stand your ground" laws that have be... Read more