Public Affairs

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WRR: Hereness Against End Times Fascism

Airs at: Mon, 08/11/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel recommends, summarizes, and reads excerpts from the essay "The Rise of End Times Fascism" by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, published in April in The Guardian. See also Margaret Killjoy, Live Like the World is Dying and Birds Before the Storm Let’s Learn ... Read more

Global Citizen International Digest with Prof. Mel Gurtov

Airs at: Thu, 07/10/2025 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
In this episode: the war in Ukraine--Russian air strikes and Trump's upset with Putin; Netanyahu's visit to Washington; Trump resume the tariff war; and more. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 21, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 07/21/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  The authoritarianism of the Trump regime calls out for mass radical organizing, but with some exceptions, much of the left has not mounted a coherent response. Journalist Arun Gupta reflects on lessons from the last quarter century – from the Global Justice Movement t... Read more

Global Citizen International Digest with Prof. Mel Gurtov

Airs at: Thu, 07/03/2025 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
In this episode: RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine costs lives abroad; No letup to Israel's military campaigns; the World's Super-rich get much richer. Read more

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