Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Joan Bohorfoush, one of the founding members of the Old Mole Variety Hour, produced, together with Dina Dickerson, an award winning radio documentary that presents a wide variety of views Muslim women have about covering the female body. It shows the falsity of common We... Read more

Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole, and we hear: Theressa Raiford of Don't Shoot Portland talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the need for street protests against police shootings. Tom Becker reads Robert Hunziker's piece from CounterPunch about the ... Read more

  Bill Resnick hosts this membership drive episode, on which we hear these segments: • Teressa Raiford of Don't Shoot Portland discusses current challenges to Oregon’s criminal injustice system • Mike Snedeker, a death penalty lawyer, comments on the connections betwe... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Ali Issa, a field Organizer for the War Resisters League, and author of Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq. He talks about how the war in Iraq devastated social movements – labor, women’s, environmental -- seeking a secular Socia... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Nancy Hollander about right-wing populism in the United States and abroad as a response to the larger crises in neoliberalism and global capitalism. Hollander is a psychoanalyst and professor emeritus of Latin American History at California State Un... Read more

Mike Snedeker talks with Jessica Campbell, Co-director of the Rural Organizing Project, about the organization's mission and how they are forming community groups to respond to the rural economic crisis and counter the influence of local militias and sheriffs. Photo: Do... Read more

Jan Haaken is our host for this Pledge Drive show as the Moles discuss --  1. Non-sectarian struggles for social justice in Iraq 2. A psychoanalytic look at Trump supporters 3. Organizing against militias in Eastern Oregon To hear the whole show, use the download link belo... Read more