Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Laurie Mercier talks with tenant union organizer and Old Mole Joe Clement about Portland Tenants United (PTU)  and tenant unionism as a response to the housing crisis. PTU is a tenant union that has grown out of a number of communities and have already helped stop one ev... Read more

Dangerous water -- dangerous to our health -- has been in the news lately because of what happened in Flint, Michigan. Major polutants of water include pesticides from industrial agriculture. Jeremy Olsen is Assistant Director at the Northwest Center for Alternatives to ... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this show and this is what it covers: 1.  Desiree Hellegers talks with Cowlitz Tribal members about the threat to their ancentral lands from a mining company. 2. Laurie Mercier and Joe Clement discuss the purpose, strategy and actions of the Portland ... Read more

On the next Old Mole, Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Jan Haaken interviews Carole Joffe. She has followed the abortion rights movement as a sociologist for decades. She will be giving her take on the State of the Abortion  Rights movement (playing on Obama's talk to t... Read more

On this day commemorating the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr., Old Mole Bill Resnick is joined by Jesse Hagopian to talk about how King has been made into a harmless campaigner against racial injustices that are no longer with us. Hagopian teaches at Garfield Hig... Read more

Joe Clement presents an audio-montage of music, reading, commentary, and other spoken word clips on the theme of religion and revolution. In addition to readings from Karl Marx, Slavoj Žižek , and John Steinbeck, audio clips include: the opening sequence of the 1979 docu... Read more

Jan Haaken interviews Carole Joffe., professor at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health and author of path-breaking books on the abortion rights movement and anti-choice politics. She gives her take on the State of the Abortion Rights movement (playing on Obama... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this Martin Luther King Day edition of the Old Mole, and we hear 1.  Bill Resnick talks with educator Jesse Hagopian about teaching the radical MLK instead of the sanitized version celebrated in the mainstream. 2.  Joe Clement presents an audio-montage ... Read more

Desiree Hellegers interviews John Linder on the history of Portland anti-war activism since the first Gulf War. Desiree mentions the Rally and March w/ Portland Peace and Justice Works Iraq Affinity Group and Portland Peaceful Response Coalition on Friday, January 15, 2... Read more

Jan Haaken and Tod Sloan discuss the occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. They consider the largely progressive history of occupation, often as a response to exhaustion of other attempts at redress, and usually entailing personal risk, as in occupations of... Read more