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Old Mole Variety Hour for July 7, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  The Organizers: remembering activist Dan Handelman; sneak peek at documentary The Israeli.  This episode is hosted by Jon Nelson and features these segments: Documentary The Israeli:  Filmmaker Jordan Karr-Morse talks with Frann Michel about his feature documentary-i... Read more

Remembering Dan Handelman (Part 2)

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Remembering Dan Handelman: In the second of a two-part segment, Desiree Hellegers brings audio excepts from a June 28 memorial for Handelman at Clinton Street Theater. Dan died in April at age 60, following a stroke. Handelman's family and Portland activists for peac... Read more

Documentary The Israeli by Jordan Karr-Morse

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Filmmaker Jordan Karr-Morse talks with Frann Michel about his feature documentary-in-progress, The Israeli, about the remarkable ideological journey of prominent Israeli-American activist and author Miko Peled, from Zionist to Palestinian Rights Activist. There will ... Read more

Global Citizen International Digest with Prof. Mel Gurtov

Airs at: Thu, 06/26/2025 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
The US at war in Iran; Trump's national security team is a mess; US-Japan defense talks in trouble; and more. Read more

No Straight Road

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg reviews Rebecca Solnit's  latest collection of essays, No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain.  You can find the book at the Multnomah County Library.  You can find more of Solnit's most recent writing at her site, Meditations in... Read more

Truth Demands

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Matt Witt reviews Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice, by lawyer, climate activist, and writer Abby Reyes.  Twenty years after Abby Reyes's partner, Terence Unity Freitas, was assassinated in Colombia while working with the ind... Read more

Dan Handelman Remembered

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  On June 28, Portland activists will gather at the Clinton Street Theater to honor the life and work of the founding member of Portland Peace and Justice Works/Portland Copwatch, an indefatigable organizer on a host of interconnected issues – war/militarism, police acc... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 23, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This episode explores American warmaking, remembers Dan Handelman, and reviews recent nonfiction. Old Mole episodes are prerecorded the week before airing.  Frann Michel hosts, and we hear these segments: Big Tech and Big War: On June 13th, the US Army swore in four si... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 16, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In this week's episode, hosted by Desiree Hellegers:  Laurie Mercier speaks to Ussama Makdisi, a professor of history and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley, whose research focuses on the cultural and political history of the modern Middle East. T... Read more

Entertainment

Airs at: Fri, 06/13/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
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