Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

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

Tod Sloan reads from Rebecca Solnit's "Hope In The Dark", here's just a snippet: "Causes and effects assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries o... Read more

Denise Morris interviews Old Mole and organizer, Joe Clement, about the Portland Renters Assembly. They talk briefly about what the assemblies have been about, what issues have been coming up, and how people can get involved.  The Portland Renters Assembly has its planni... Read more

Denise Morris interviews Old Mole and organizer, Joe Clement, about the Portland Renters Assembly. They talk briefly about what the assemblies have been about, what issues have been coming up, and how people can get involved.  The Portland Renters Assembly has its planni... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Gwen Sullivan of the Portland Association of Teachers about how things have been going since they won their latest contract Joe Clement reads a pamphlet about organizing a citywide tenants unio... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Gordon Lafer of the Univ of Oregon who argues that education cannot end poverty. Jan Haaken remembers Hugo Du Courday (also known as Hugu Maynard) an outstanding educator and activist. Jan Haaken and Tod Sloan discuss a new report concerning the Ame... Read more

Gordon Lafer talks with the Old Mole’s Bill Resnick about why education and training programs will not put a dent in the unemployment rate.  Lafer is a political economist at the University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center and the author of The Job Trainin... Read more

Today’s Psychology and Politics segment, with psychologists Jan Haaken and Tod Sloan, begins with a tribute to Jan’s colleague Hugo Du Coudray (also known as Hugo Maynard), professor emeritus of psychology at Portland State, who died this past week. Hugo started the comm... Read more