Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Larry Bowlden reviews three novels: Alice Sebold's Almost Moon; Debra Dean's The Madonnas of Leningrad; and Elizabeth Berg's Open House.  (He does not like all of them.) Read more

Two students from Macalester College in Minnesota, Sophie Smith and Hadley Pope, who locked themselves down in front of a weapons manufacturer talk with the Old Mole's Jan Haaken about their experiences and the significance of their actions.  You can find extensive  cove... Read more

Hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, this program features discussions of bank nationalization and student anti-war actions.  We also hear a  review of three recent novels by women writers.  To hear the whole show, including music by tenor sax player Don Byas, click on the arr... Read more

How is  the  current economic crisis showing up here in Oregon?  Bill Resnick talks with Michael Leachman of the Oregon Center for Public Policy about rising unemployment, tax policies, and more here in the state.  For more of Leachman's work, go here. Read more

On today's Old Mole Variety Hour, Priya Kandaswamy, Professor of Women's Studies at Portland State University, explains  how so-called “welfare reform” has  made  it harder for poor women to escape from domestic violence.  We also get some historical context for bank nat... Read more

Movie Moles Frann Michel and Denise Morris review the documentary "Considering Democracy."  What does the rest of the world think of U.S. domestic and foreign policy? While the U.S. is perceived as a beacon of democracy, how does it compare to other democratic nations? A... Read more

Since the so-called "welfare reform" bill was passed during the Clinton administration, the problem of welfare has dropped from public view.  Old Mole Sudarat Musikawong interviews Priya Kandaswamy, Professor of Women's Studies at Portland State University about how the ... Read more

Western Washington University at Vancouver has  hired a contractor with a record of bad  labor  practices.   When union workers  protested, students  joined  in.   Laurie Mercier  talks  with Jason Scheckler from the Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters and Taj Mahon... Read more

Hosted by Bill Resnick,  this program deals with the local impact  of the economic crisis,  welfare "deform" and domestic  violence, labor issues at  a Northwest university campus, and a documentary film showing how American policies are viewed around the  world.  To hea... Read more

Old Mole Jan Haaken talks with Mary Gedry, mother of an Iraq War veteran, who will be speaking at  Winter  Soldier NW: Eyewitness Accounts of War,  in Portland on Saturday, October  18.   She recounts the impact  of war on her son, and on other  soldiers.   For more  inf... Read more