Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Politicians have been turning more public services over to profit-making corporations.  In this conversation with Joe Clement, journalist Mike Konczal goes into the dangers of privatization for democracy.  Konczal is the author of "The Privatization Trap" recently publishe... Read more

Well-read Red Frann Michel locates the recent news about the Komen Foundation and Planned Parenthood in the "larger wave of neoliberalism."  You can read her comments with links to her soures here.     Read more

  Hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, this show has good news and bad news from the economic justice front.  The good news: according to Gar Alperowitz, more people than ever are working for and being served by non-capitalistic enterprises, from worker-owned coops to publically ... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with writer and Portland-area teacher, Bill Bigelow, about how his book "Rethinking Columbus" was removed from Tuscon-area schools because it violates Arizona Law concerning teaching ethnic studies in Public Schools. Bill Bigelow explains how the crack-do... Read more

 Laurie Mercier talks with Margaret Butler, director and co-founder of the Portland-area labor coalition, Jobs with Justice, which just turned 20 years old. Butler talks a little about what JwJ does in general and recent actions, advocacy and campaigns they've done. Read more

Iven Hale reviews Colson Whitehead's 1999 novel, "The Intuitionist." Set in a big city during a period of racial integration,Whitehead and Iven both explore the racial implications of the elevator as a metaphor for "social-uplift", the black female protagonist who is the fi... Read more

  Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole, which because of membership drive breaks shows up as being about30% shorter than normal. We hear about the crack-down on ethnic studies in Arizona, about what's going on in Jobs with Justice, and a review of The Intuitionist. In the middle... Read more

  Hosted by Laurie Mercier, this episode features Bill Resnick talks with Janet Redman of the Institute for Policy Studies about how to spread knowledge and concern about climate change at the local level. What's being done in Portland to confront global warming? ... Read more

 What could be done to bring energy production into line with the survival of life on this planet?  This is both a political and a technology question, and both are discussed here by Janet Redman and the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.  Redman is with the Institute for Policy Stud... Read more

 Featuring Chris Hedges and many others, the new film Capitalism Is the Crisis argues forcefully that the current financial crisis is not just a temporary glitch in capitalism, but is part of the way the system works.  Movie Moles Frann Michel and Jan Haaken lay out the fil... Read more