Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Joe Clement hosts! We hear music from Blind Boy Paxon and Blue Scholars! The show includes... Bill Resnick talks with Al Bradbury, a former KBOO Labor Radio host, who now works for the monthly labor magazine, Labor Notes. Larry Bowlden reviews "Intrusions", b... Read more

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Ursula Hegi's "Intrustions", a novel within a novel that confronts the writer's conflicted as a mother and artist. Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Al Bradbary about the monthly journal, Labor Notes. They discuss exciting developments Labor Notes covers, the kind of radical rank-and-file tendency that they support through both their magazine, but also books digesting examples of recent succes... Read more

Joe Clement talks with Cassie Thornton about her use of debt for the last 7 years as a subject for her art-work. She describes how she's sought to concretize debt, explore debt through hypnotherapeutic visualization exercises with others, and in the end how she's gotten ... Read more

for Monday May 25, 2015   Bill Resnick talks with activist teacher Jesse Hagopian of Seattle about developments in labor organizing and the upcoming Labor Notes Troublemakers School on May 30, for which Jesse will be keynote speaker. This Memorial Day, Desiree Hellege... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Jesse Hagopian, a leader in the resistance to corporate school "reform" including high stakes testing, privatization, and rote curriculums for the popular classes. The financial and corporate elites pushing school "reform" would never dream of sen... Read more

Frann Michel shares Sylvia McGauley's reflections in Rethinking Schools on school militarization through JROTC at Reynolds High School, with information on opting out and counter recruitment. http://kboo.fm/rethinkingtheschooltomilitarypipeline Read more

Frann Michel shares Sylvia McGauley's reflections in Rethinking Schools on school militarization through JROTC at Reynolds High School, with information on opting out and counter recruitment. http://kboo.fm/rethinkingtheschooltomilitarypipeline Read more

Desiree Hellegers recently participated in a Veterans for Peace delegation to Viet Nam, and reflects on Monsanto's role as one of the leading producers of the defoliant Agent Orange used during the war. You can also find a more extended account of that trip to Viet Nam onl... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge introduces and reads a plea from a Viet Nam veteran that he not be thanked for his "service" in the war machine. The article is by Camillo Mac Bica, available here on TruthOut.  Other articles on these issues by him are here. Read more