Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Due to technical difficulties, there will not be a "whole show" file until parts can be re-recorded. You can still listen to individual segments below. Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Alan Weider's second documentary on Studs Turkel, this time following him to Montgome... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Leo Panitch about the electoral victory in Greece of the anti-austerity party Syriza. Although they will likely fulfill their promises to restore health care, to reinstate collective bargaining and workers’ basic rights, to raise the minimum wage,... Read more

Joe Clement reads "Revolution and Counterrevolution" by Julian Beck, from  Visions of Poesy: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Anarchist Poetry. Read more

Johanna Brenner joins Mike Snedecker to discuss Oregon's state laws that preempt cities or other localities from raising the minimum wage or passing inclusive zoning laws that would require developers to provide affordable housing. Those interested in raising the minimum... Read more

Frann Michel talks with volunteer activist Hyung Nam of Health Care for All Oregon about health care as a human right,  what's wrong with the Affordable Care Act, why we need single payer (Medicare for all), and the rally coming up February 11 in Salem.  Read more

  Iven Hale hosts this episode of the Old Mole, with segments on Greek elections, the campaign for single-payer health care in Oregon, anarchist poetry, and challenging state legal preemptions of local attempts to raise the minimum wage or demand affordable housing in ne... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Juan Carlos Ordonez of the Oregon Center for Public Policy on income inequality in Oregon. Desiree Hellegers interviews Jarvis Capucion, with Seattle Housing and Resource Effort (acronym SHARE) about their campaign Occupy CEHKC (the Committee to ... Read more

Bill Resnick reads from and comments on Andrew Burgin's essay Why we must support a SYRIZA government in Greece on the likelihood that the Greek left will win the upcoming election there and ignite the movement to end Europe's austerity policy. [image from left unity] Read more

Bill Resnick will be our host and we will be talking about: The Charlie Hebdo massacre, how to understand it, how to prevent terrorism. Syriza:  will the Greek left win the election and ignite the movement to end Europe's austerity policy? Teach for America:  th... Read more

Alan Wieder begins his monthly series on Studs Terkel, whose radio show, mostly interviews, mostly with working class folks, ran for 45 years on WFMT, Chicago. Alan recommends the audio resources at transom.org. [photo of Studs in public domain] Read more