Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken interviews Kboo’s own Theresa Mitchell. Theresa joins the Old Mole from the DNC in Philadelphia with a special PressWatch report on the events of the week and the Socialist Convergence Conference opening Monday night (7.25.26) with the panel discussion Capital... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talks Jan Zuckerman and Students Olivia Miller and Peter Sallinger of Portland’s Sunnyside Environmental School. Larry Bowlden reviews the novel Restless by William Boyd. Jan Haaken and Denise Morris review the ... Read more

Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Mole and we hear these pieces: 1.  The Old Mole's Laurie Mercier talks with historian Herb Ruffin about the roots of Black Lives Matter and its success as a social movement.  2.  Mole Bill Resnick interviews activist and Green Party lea... Read more

Howie Hawkins is a perennial candidate for the NY State Green Party, but he’s different, because he is now getting over 5% in state elections and 35% in Syracuse, NY, where the Democrats and Republicans join forces to defeat him. Howie is well known in NY for his researc... Read more

Laurie Mercier speaks with Herb Ruffin, professor of African American Studies at Syracuse University, about the historical roots of Black Lives Matter and its success as a social movement. Ruffin’s essay, “Black Lives Matter: The Growth of a New Social Justice Movement,... Read more

Desiree Hellegers interviews activists with the Mosquito Fleet, an emerging grassroots direct action activist group that grew out of last summer's Shell No! protests. Touching on the links between militarism, oil and climate change, the interviews were conducted outside ... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge selects and reads from some of the commentaries from the left about the shootings last week in Minneapolis, Baton Rouge, and Dallas.  Photo Credit: Susan Melkisethian / Flickr The sources are: DALLAS POLICE SHOOTING: BLOWBACK FROM IMPUNITY AND STRU... Read more

The Mondragon coop in the Basque region of Spain, owned and managed by its workers, has been seen by the left as a path beyond capitalism. But how has it worked out? Sharryn Kasmir has lived in and studied the town of Mondragon and talked with the workers, and found it l... Read more