Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Here are two featured opportunities for political engagment this week: 1. The Community Alliance of Tenants and Stable Homes for Oregon Families are providing transportation and other resources for those who register to join them in Salem on Wednesday to lobby state legis... Read more

Frann Michel hosts this episode and we hear: 1. Conn Hallinan and Bill Resnick consider whether Trump has a foreign policy and some of the grave dangers this president poses. 2. Huy Ong of OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon talks with the Old Mole's Desiree Hellegers abou... Read more

Tom Becker is the host of this episode of the Old Mole, and it includes these segments: Union Activist Mark Dudzic talks with Bill Resnick about Medicare for all and the role of Unions in making it happen.  Laurie Mercier and Thomas A. Saenz discuss the intensification... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Mark Dudzic, National Coordinator of Labor for Single Payer Health Care. Dudzic contends that the states are creating models for Medicare for All, that could provide every U.S. resident with higher quality care at less cost and with better outcome... Read more

Recent aggressive raids and detentions of immigrants by ICE  (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), how they are different from those during Obama regime, how Latino and immigrant communities are reacting, and how to mobilize allies in support of immigrants. Laurie Merci... Read more

Movie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discuss the new film by Jordan Peele that mixes the plot of "Guess Who's Coming for Dinner" with the genre of horror.  They recommend it.  Correction: The review cited as by Roger Ebert was written by Brian Tallerico and appeared... Read more

  Oregon is behind California and many other places in responding to climate change, but a program called Community Energy, enacted by the legislature last year, might provide a start towards meaningful action, if the Public Utility Commission writes rules that make tha... Read more

M 3/27 Respond to ICE detention of Francisco J Rodriguez Dominguez Francisco J. Rodriguez Dominguez is a 25-year-old and a DACA recipient who was detained by ICE agents without a warrant at his Portland home on Sunday morning. It was reported that Francisco entered into a... Read more

    A haunting tale of love, loss and familial duty, and winner of the 2009 UK Costa Novel Award, Brooklyn follows the fortunes of a young Irish woman who leaves home to make a new life for herself in 1950s New York. Book Mole Larry Bowlden recommends it here.   Read more

  Probably best known for having performed her poetry at the opening of the United Nations Climate Summit in New York in 2014, activist and artist Jetñil-Kijiner talks here with Desiree about poetry for the people, the impact of US imperialism and climate change on her ... Read more