Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Two brilliant women writers, giving witness to the death of two hearts. For Bowen in  Death of the Heart, an adolescent girl orphaned and left in a sort of a codicil to a will to a cold, loveless couple, living a vacuous, allegedly enlightened upper middle class existenc... Read more

Clayton reads an article from In These Times by Kate Aronoff that argues for why the left can do better than Jill Stein. Read more

Joe Clement presents the Well-read Red. Strikes are one of the fundamental weapons of the working-class for effecting social change. The material power workers have in the workplace, their ability to grind things to a halt, is useful for forcing bosses and the state alik... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Juan Carlos Ordonez of the Oregon Center for Public Policy about Measure 97 Desiree Hellegers interviews two native activists, Carl Wassilie and Nikos Pasto, on their way to Standing Rock. Book Mole L... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks to Theressa Raiford, a leader of Don't Shoot Portland, about the growing impunity of police and racist vigilantes and the importance of street protest challenging this violence, and that business as usual by police and civilian racists will continue... Read more

  Desiree Hellegers interviews Dan Handelman of Portland Copwatch about the upcoming City Council vote on the draft Police Association contract, which was released by the Mayor’s office on Friday. The contract, which will not be up for renegotiation until 2020, will hav... Read more

  Laurie Mercier talks with Michael Harriot, a writer, podcaster, spoken-word poet, and editor-in-chief of NegusWhoRead. In 2013 he began hosting "The Black One" podcast and it has grown to become one of the most-listened to podcasts in Black America. They discuss Black... Read more

  Denise Morris Hosts this Episode of the Old Mole which includes these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Teressa Raiford about the value of Black lives and the need for protest Desiree Hellegers talks with Dan Handleman about the proposed Portland police contract ter... Read more

Bill Resnick talks to Theressa Raiford, a leader of Don't Shoot Portland, about the growing impunity of police and racist vigilantes and the importance of street protest challenging this violence, that business as usual will continue until it is forced to change.    Read more

"The Sick Ocean" by Robert Hunziker reports on the terrible and deteriorating health of the world's oceans and emphasizes the the vital importance of the oceans for the health of the entire planet. Tom Becker reads. Read more