Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Faye Powell lived in Georgia in the 1960s and participated in picketting and sit-ins against segregation.  She talks here with Denise Morris about her experiences, and they discuss the film Freedom Riders which will be shown at In Other Words Women's Bookstore on Tuesda... Read more

 Denise Morris is our host on a show about the Republican battle over capitalism, a made-up story about multiple personalities that passed for reality, the history and future of the abortion issue, and remembering civil disobedience against segregation in the 1960s.   Fo... Read more

 Bill Resnick talks with Malik Miah about the Occupy movement, how race figures into the economic crisis,  mobilizing in the black community and what the Occupy movement could learn from their history of organizing against the 1%.   Malik Mia is an airplane mechanic, but... Read more

Movie Moles, Joe Clement and Jan Haaken, talk about the new drama-documentary "The Iron Lady", which looks at the life and political career of Margaret Thatcher (played by Meryl Streep) through her own nostalgic memories. They talk about her status as a powerful women ag... Read more

Tom Becker reads the State of the Dream 2012 report from United For a Fair Economy: "The report examines trends across a variety of indicators including income, wealth, education, employment, health and incarceration. It finds that when the U.S. becomes a minority-majori... Read more

  Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole and we hear:   Bill Resnick Talk with Malik Miah, a black working-class intellectual. Clayton Morgareidge reads an essay about Mitt Romney and vulture capitalism Joe Clement and Jan Haaken review "The Iron Lady", the drama-doc... Read more

Well-read Red, Clayton Morgareidge, reads an excerpt from Gary Weiss' article from Salon on Mitt Romney and vulture-capitalism. The article reviews how Romney's former investment firm bought out companies and destroyed rather than created jobs, while turning a tidy profi... Read more

Denise Morris host and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Rob Ritchie of Fair Vote Monday, starting out with Iowa's recent straw vote, how flawed it was as a democratic exercise, and how it would have been more meaningful if it had been done under a "ranked choic... Read more

 Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Mole which focuses on how to make elections more democratic, the campaign for gays in the military, and Israel's plans for war.   Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ... Read more

How fair and democratic are "winner-take-all" elections?   Rob Ritchie is the director of Fair Vote, and in this conversation he and the Old Mole's Bill Resnick discuss how most elections work against third-party candidates and how elections could be get more voices into... Read more