Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken talk about a new report by the Equal Justice Initiative-- Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror. The report, available online, documents EJI’s multi-year investigation into lynching in twelve Southern states during the... Read more

For this month's Psychology and Politics segment, Jan Haaken and Tod Sloan talk about the Netfllix series, "House of Cards" and what this popular TV program, that just finished its third season, says about sex, power, and presidential politics.  Read more

Tom Becker reads from Robert Hunziker's article in Counter Punch, "Climate Genocide".  Although climate has changed in the geological past, it has never changed as fast as it is now, and the consquences will be devastating. Read more

Denise Morris hosts this edition of the Old Mole dealing with the "Islamic State," the history of lynchings, climate change, and "House of Cards".  To hear the whole show, use the play button below. For individual segments, follow the numbered links.  You can become ... Read more

What does ISIS hope to gain from their videos of their beheadings of innocent people? Bill Resnick talks with Amanda Rogers who writes on the middle east and studies media representations in the current struggles. Hey discuss the genius of ISIS media. One genre is meant ... Read more

Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick continue his conversation from last week with Al Weinrub. They discuss how cities can lead the way in cutting carbon emissions. Frann Michel brings us the Well-read Red Alan Wieder presents another mini-documentary on ... Read more

This is the second half of Bill Resnick's talk with clean energy activist, Al Weinrub. The first half played last week. They discussed community energy, which are networks of small scale networked solar and wind installations all over the city and connected by the existi... Read more

Every second Monday of the month, Alan Wieder presents a short documentary on the life and times of radical radio commentator and oral historian Studs Turkel, including clips of his work or else of him speaking. This month looks at the influence of wobblies and other wor... Read more

  Joe Clement hosts today's Old Mole and we hear: Part two of Bill Resnick's conversation with Clean Energy activist, Al Weinrub Alan Wieder's regular documentary about the life and times of Studs Turkel Frann Michel's Well-read Red on the contradictions of a... Read more

Well-read Red, Frann Michel, offers a set of short readings* on housing as a human right, the contradictions of human need vs. profit, and the success of direct collective action by tenants in establishing housing as a truly public good. In addition to these readings, sh... Read more