Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts and we hear music from Anne Feeney, variations on the Old Mole theme song, and these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Dan Handelman of Portland CopWatch about police violence and militarization. Frann Michel and Hyung Nam discuss democracy and its cont... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Frederic Mousseau, policy  director at the Oakland Institute where he coordinates the institute's research on food security and agroeclology. Larry Bowlden reviews a book of short stories entitled  "China Dog and Other Stories from a Chinese Cafe... Read more

Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with Frédéric Mousseau about agroecology: farming, ecology, and food. Mousseau is the Policy Director at the Oakland Institute where he coordinates the Institute’s research and advocacy activities on land investment, food security and agricult... Read more

Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews China Dog and Other stories from a Chinese Laundry, by Judy Fong Bates. As in her perceptive and wise debut novel Midnight at the Dragon Cafe,  Bates describes what it was like to grow up between two cultures. Her Chinese parents want ... Read more

Would a socialist society be a boring and mediocre world? Not so, according to Danny Katch writing on the Jacobin Magazine blog. Clayton Morgareidge reads an edited version. The complete version is here. Image is Decor design for Gozzi’s play Princess Turandot (1922). Ign... Read more

On their Left and the Law segment today, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker talk about the politics of parole boards in the U.S.. They discuss a case taken up by the Post-conviction Justice Project in California around denial of parole rights--and they look at how parole board... Read more

Tom Becker hosts the show and we learn about how agroecology can help save the planet and feed the people; about the life of early Chinese immigrants to Canada; why socialism, far from being boring, will unleash human creativity; and about the history and politics of par... Read more

Denise Morris Hosts this Episode of The Old Mole Variety Hour which includes Bill Resnick interviews Gwen Sullivan President of the Portland Association of Teachers. Sullivan evaluates the extent to which teachers have succeeded in building what teachers promised in t... Read more

Joe Clement reads a pamphlet produced by Buffalo Class Action (a Buffalo, New York area anarchist political organization) about the political situation of the for-profit housing system and the power that tenants have to challenge and ultimately transform it, if and when ... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Gwen Sullivan of the Portland Association of Teachers, the union representing the teachers of Portland Public Schools. They discuss developments and implementation of their latest contract, settled last year after the union voted to go on strike w... Read more