Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: BIll Resnick talk with Patrick Mazza about how capitalism still haunts Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything: capitalism vs. the climate" Iven Hale reads a story about a client failed by the mental healthcare system... Read more

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Kaia Sand joins Norm to talk about the Watcher Files Project, an artistic collaboration exhibit and performance based on police surveillance files of Portland activists in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Read more

Norm Diamond hosts this episode and we hear: Kaia Sand joins Norm to talk about the Watcher Files Project Bill Resnick talks with Margaret Jordan of the Richmond Progressive Alliance [Due to technical issues, this interview will not be immediately available as a s... Read more

Benjamin Parzybok's novel, Sherwood Nation, is a futuristic story of Portland, post-drought. It explores the possibility of creating fairly small city-states that are self-governing and dependent on neighborhood volunteers for protection and services. The novel raises a ... Read more

 Bill Resnick hosts as the hard-digging Moles tell us about Organizing to stop police violence Ballot Measure 90 and what's really necessary for insuring fair elections The controversial film "Gone GIrl" The ebola panic and the real threats to our lives Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Drew Spencer of FairVote.org  about Measure 90, on the November 2014 ballot, that would undermine an already dysfunctional election system. They also discuss the changes required in election procedure-- rank choice voting and proportional represen... Read more

Bill Resnick reads from Horace Campbell in Counterpunch on "Ebola, the African Union, and Bioeconomic Warfare," and summarizes and comments on other accounts of the Ebola Crisis. He concentrates on the neo-liberal defunding of public health agencies and the exploitation ... Read more

Joe Clement and Jamie Partridge discuss the campaign to set $15 as the minimum wage for Portland contract workers. Read more

Movie Mole Jan Haaken talks with Mimi Schippers about feminist controversies over the film Gone Girl, a thriller directed by David Fincher and based on the global bestselling novel by Gillian Flynn, who also adapted the story for the screen. Mimi teaches sociology at Tul... Read more