Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Thom Becker hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear: 1. Bill Resnick talks with John T. James about the extent and the causes of fatal medical errors. 2. Frann Michel discusses Earth Strike. 3. How and why the capital-labor struggle disappeared from political c... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews John T. James who discusses the tragic toll and how to avoid medical errors.areas. James is the author of A Sea of Broken Hearts: Patient Rights in a Dangerous, Profit-Driven Health Care System.  Read more

In the 1950s and 60s, political and economic commentary was about the struggle between labor and capital. Not now. Why? Thom Becker reads from Rob Urie’s article in CounterPunch arguing that that capitalism has attempted and largely succeeded in co-opting and compromising a... Read more

  Larry Bowlden reviews Hyeonseo Lee’s The Girl With Seven Names, a memoir about the author's young life in North Korea, which she was taught to regard as the best and most prosperous country in the world. Almost by accident, she found herself in China and then began a lon... Read more

Bill Resnick congratulates the Oregonian for its expose of the Oregon Dept of Environmental Quality, the Oregon Legislature, and the companies who successfully demand the right to bathe us in dangerous pollution. He disputes that this happens mostly as a product of campaign... Read more

  (Frann Michel for the Old Mole Variety Hour March 11, 2019; School Strike image by Leonhard Lenz [CC0])   Young climate activists have called for a one-day school strike on March 15th. Earth Strike, as it’s also called, is expected to be the largest yet of these events... Read more

  Friday, March 8th is International Women’s Day.  As faithful Mole listeners may recall, the holiday has its origins in class struggle and socialist politics of the early twentieth century In New York, “in 1908, 15,000 women garment workers, the majority of them immigran... Read more

Cinzia Arruzza talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about Women's Strike USA and the book/pamphlet Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto which she co-authored. They discuss the Women's Strike happening this Friday, March 8 in cities around the world, including Portland. Arruz... Read more

Film Maker and Old Mole Jan Haaken talks with Clayton Morgareidge about her new film "Our Bodies, Our Doctors" premiering at the Portland International Film Festival this week. The film tells the rarely-discussed story of what it means to be an abortion provider today: conf... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this Women's Day edition of the Old Mole and we hear: 1. Frann Michel gives us an overview of the International Women's Strike and its demands. 2. Bill Resnick talks with an author of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, Cinzia Arruzza. 3. Jan Haa... Read more