Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

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

Frann Michel reviews the criticism explaining why Teach for America is bad for those who teach in it, bad for the students they teach, and bad for public education in the United States. You can find a longer version of her comments, with links to sources, here . Read more

Clayton Morgareidge draws on the work of Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig in Dissent and b. traven at Crimethinc.com to argue that the role of police is to enforce laws that protect the people who own things, and that property destruction is an effective political tactic. [phot... Read more

Bill Resnick hosts this episode, with the music of Phil Ochs, and segments on Charlie Hebdo, the Greek left, Teach for America, Studs Terkel, Property and the police state.  Find us on Facebook or Twitter, and friend or follow us for updates and other stuff we like to sh... Read more