Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker is our host for this edition of the Old Mole, and we learn why education and job training are not the solution to unemployment, how US tax law benefits corporate tax evasion, and how and why the American Psychological Association condoned torture during the G.... 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

In Part Two of their Psychology and Politics segment, Jan Haaken and Tod Sloan talk about the report this past week on the involvement of the American Psychological Association in CIA administered torture practices of the Bush era. They also take up the history of psycho... Read more

Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Norm Diamond talks with The Low Tide Drifters, a Eugene-based folk music group whose songs are full of working-class and environmental themes. They discuss their formative experiences, the importance of music for creating and preservin... Read more

Joe Clement talks with Shane, a local housing justice activist, about how unionism as a political strategy for a more direct kind of democracy can be applied to other areas of social life. He and others call this "community syndicalism" or "community unionism". To that e... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Norm Diamond interview the Low Tide Drifters, who also perform live in studio. Joe talks with Ryan Wisnor, of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association, about remembering "Blood Wednesday" Joe also talks with... Read more

Norm Diamond talks with the Low Tide Drifters, whose "music for the rest of us" draws on growing up in coastal oregon, wobbly didacticism, environmental as well as socially conscious themes, and phenomenal performances all around. They talk about their backgrounds and th... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this show dealing with issues of imprisonment, injustice, oil terminals and Native Americans, and the "freedom to marry" as a way of domesticating the LGBT movement. To hear the whole show, use the play button below. To hear individual segments, fo... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour which includes Bill Resnick interviews Victoria Law on Solitary confinement and the lawlessness of the criminal justice system. Victoria Law is an activist involved in prison reform and writes on woman in p... Read more