Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Bill Resnick and Brian Tokar discuss Municipalism and how to combine electoral politics with grass roots movement building to support a radical political turn. Brian Tokar is an activist, author, and a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont.  H... Read more

  Desiree Hellegers talks with Huy Ong of OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon about the shooting of Terrell Johnson and the upcoming Trimet meeting on the transit police. Demands include these: Disarm transit police officers!, Stop the sweeps!, Place a moratorium on fare ... Read more

  Denise Morris interviews Rachel Hanes, Organizer of the May 20th Town Hall, Death by a Thousand Cuts: A Public Education Funding Town Hall.. Rachel Hanes is currently a second grade teacher and a former middle school special education teacher in Portland Public School... Read more

Activist and writer Nick Buxton talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how the military and corporations are dealing with climate change -- recognizing its reality but protecting only their own interests. Buxton is co-editor of The Secure and the Dispossessed: How ... Read more

The West Wing produced yet another scene of paranoia and incompetence last week, this time around Trump's abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey. Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker talk about this most recent drama and what's at stake for progressives as we mobilize in the ... Read more

A Gentleman in Moscow is a historical novel by Amor Towles; wonderful descriptions of Moscow and incisive psychological analysis of his main characters. It is a very emotionally intelligent book. Read more

Bill Resnick hosts this membership drive edition of the Old Mole, and we hear: 1. Nick Buxton talks about his book on how corporations and the military are dealing with climate change. 2. Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken, our Left and the Law experts, review the good, the ... Read more

  Laurie asks Martin Hart-Landsberg about the situation in Korea, and Marty discusses the history and political economy of US-Korea relations. Marty Hart-Landsberg is a local scholar and activist who has researched and written extensively on Korea. To keep up on events ... Read more

  Wael Elasady and Bill discuss  May Day's police-instigated "riot,"  the history and role of the police, and organizing for change. Elasady wrote the article "Hard facts about Portland's May Day 'riot'" for Socialist Worker.    Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge explains how the rich get so rich.  Read more