Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Constructed from footage and interviews done by Swedish filmmakers in the late 60s and early 70s, Black Power Mixtapes shows never-before seen sides of major players in the movement.  Our Movie Moles Denise Morris and Laurie Mercier discuss what it tells us.  The film is sh... Read more

 What will it take for the Occupation movement to maintain its momentum and grow?  Stephanie Luce, who teaches Labor Studies at the City University of New York, has been very active in the Wall Street Occupation, and she talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about wha... Read more

What happened inside a big investment bank when it suddenly realized that what it was selling was going to be worthless? The new movie Margin Call, with Kevin Spacey and Jeremy Irons, takes us inside, and our Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Joe Clement discuss the film's politi... Read more

 Last weekend, hundreds of children and their parents  had a sleepover at the Wall Street Occupation.   Two parents who participated talk with Bill Resnick about why they did it and and what it was like.   Read more

 Philosophers have often tried to prove that God exists, but belief is rarely the result of  logic.   Novelist and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein, in her novel Thirty-six Arguements for the Existence of God,  tells a rich story set in academia about the philosophy and psycho... Read more

 The Old Mole's Joe  Clement has been participating in the Portland Occupation's General Assembly, and he reports here about the decision to work with members of the Portland City Charter Commission to change the way we elect city officials to  Instant Run-off Elections (IR... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this show dealing mostly with the growing Occupations, from Wall Street to Portland and beyond. We hear from people on the ground in New York, including two parents who participated in a  sleep-over with their kid.   We also get news about a concrete dem... Read more

 Bill Resnick and Harvey Wasserman talk about the need, the possibility and the way for developing wind and solar energy systems that emphasize distributed, democratic production. Recently, Harvey spoke at Occupy Wall Street. They agree that this should be part of the Wall ... Read more

Jan Haaken and Frann Michel discuss "We Were Here - voices from the AIDS years in San Francisco" directed by David Weismann and Bill Weber. The film profiles five people living in San Francisco during the AIDS crisis in the late '70s and 1980s. Frann and Jan note the power ... Read more

        Bill Resnick hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill interview Harvey Wasserman about the relationship between our democratic energy future and Occupy Wall Street. Joe Clement reads an essay by David Graeber about the Radical Imagination set loose by the Wal... Read more