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In Memoriam, Delores Loann Winston

Airs at: Mon, 06/20/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers memorializes — and we hear excerpts of archival audio of—Delores Loann Winston, a formerly homeless activist with Seattle's WHEEL-Women in Black , and a teenage volunteer in the 1970s with Seattle's Black Panther Breakfast program, who died in May, and who... Read more

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
"An Oath to Uphold: A Warcry": In the first of a six-part series, Nimiipuu/Nez Perce Mole Julian Ankney interviews Nimiipuu MMIP (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples) activist Channa Henry, a rape survivor and former police officer on the reservation, about how acts of ... Read more

Patriot Front and What It Means for American Democracy

Airs at: Thu, 06/16/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for American Standoff
When police arrested 31 men found inside a U-Haul truck near a pride event in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho last Saturday it raised the specter of a coordinated effort of violence and intimidation. The white men from 10 states, were alleged to be members of a white supremacist group... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 20, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 06/20/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Juneteenth: Sarah Chivers brings audio from Vancouver's Juneteenth celebration, featuring emcee Karen Morrison, a community organizer with Free Hot Soup Vancouver and coordinator of Odyssey World International. Big Pharma and Covid Vaccines: Bill Resnick discusses Big Ph... Read more

Juneteenth

Airs at: Mon, 06/13/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Sarah Chivers speaks with Karen Morrison, a Black leader and educator in Vancouver with the non-profit "Odyssey World International Education Services." She is coordinating with the City of Vancouver to host an event on Juneteenth (June 17th, 1-7pm at Esther Short Park in V... Read more

Cancel Student Debt!

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers talks with WSU Vancouver students Ellah Allman, Flaffy Polley, and Andrea Manske about organizing to cancel student debt, the importance of integrating discussion of student debt into course work, the Morrill Indigenous Land Grab, and about using their May... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 30, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Girl of Venezuela: Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Can humanity survive climate change? In his profoundly important essay “World War II Lessons for a Green New Deal,”  Martin Ha... Read more

Poetry and Baseball

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
For one day this season, every player wore number 42, Jackie Robinson’s number, to celebrate 75 years of major league desegregation. Matt Witt’s poem about his meeting as a seven-year-old with Roy Campanella, Robinson’s teammate and another great Black player, reminds us of... Read more

"You Are Doing Nothing" and the Deadly Tragedy of the Politics of Jesus, Guns, and Babies

Airs at: Thu, 05/26/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for American Standoff
Once again, for the second week in a row, as 19 children and two teachers lost their lives to gun violence in Uvalde, Texas. These mass shootings must be seen as the outcome of the deadly and cynical policies of right-wing Republican politicians. Georgia's Kandiss Taylor lo... Read more

Mass shooters and their enablers, the demographic shift and the death spiral of white supremacy, with Scot Nakagawa

Airs at: Wed, 05/18/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Wednesday Talk Radio
    Scot Nakagawa is a 42-year veteran of social and economic justice advocacy and has served as an organizer, political strategist, and social movement analyst in the struggle against authoritarianism and for equitable and inclusive democracy since 1988. Scot serves as c... Read more