The Old Mole Variety Hour for May 23, 2016

Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear:

• Bill Resnick talks with Tarah Demant of Amnesty International about the surprising numbers on support for refugees in the United States,
• Frann Michel discusses the history of Vanport, the need for public housing, and the importance of solidarity rather than individualism in social provisioning.
• Desiree Hellegers shares field recordings she made in Annacortes, WA where dozens of activists were arrested for protesting fossil fuel recently.
• Joe reviews Finance Smurf. This is the last smurfs comic made by the originator, Pierre Culliford or "Peyo", and is a cautionary tale about the smurf village ran as a money economy.
• Bill Resnick returns to read an essay by Rebecca Solnit about the generosity of ordinary working people compared to the calculating tight-fistedness of elites.