Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Today on the Old Mole we hear the following segments: Continuing Assault on Democracy: In the second of a two part interview Bill Resnick speaks with Judge Lynn Adelman on the Roberts Court and its threat to democracy. Portland's Climate Action Plan: Jan Haaken interview... Read more

  Bill Resnick continues his conversation with Lynn Adelman, a Federal Judge in the Eastern District of Wisconsin, whose essay "The Roberts Court Assault on Democracy"  will appear in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.  Part 1 last week examined the Roberts C... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Sophie Smith about Scott Warren who was charged with giving aid to two Honduran Refugees.  Sophie Smith works with People Helping People in the Border Zone at Arivaca, Arizona. image via http://phparivaca.org Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Diana Meisenhelter and Brandon Zero of  Extinction Rebellion Portland about the city’s climate action plan and plans by Portland’s Extinction Rebellion to attend the Portland City Council meeting Thursday Dec 12 at 2pm and to gather at 4pm outisde C... Read more

  Denise Morris host's this episode of The Old Mole which includes: Assault on Democracy: Bill Resnick interviews Lynn Adelman, a federal judge in Wisconsin, about the Roberts Court.  Post Thanksgiving Digest: Well Read Red Frann Michel continues digesting the meaning o... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Lynn Adelman, a federal judge in the eastern district of Wisconsin, who writes on the importance of court decisions on the everyday lives of working people. His upcoming article, “The Roberts Court: Assault on Democracy” in the Harvard Journal of ... Read more

Frann Michel continues digesting the meaning of the USA’s harvest holiday. Reading from recent writing by indigenous activists and historians, she traces the myth of Thanksgiving, notes the history of native resistance to genocide, and touches on the work of activists wi... Read more

Bill Resnick speaks with Susan Palmiter, an environmental activist on the divest/reinvest team of 350pdx.org. Palmiter co-leads the campaign to demand that JPMorgan Chase, the sole US funder of the Jordan Cove pipeline project and the largest funder of fossil fuels world... Read more

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Kerry Anne King’s novel, Everything You Are, a novel about a Cello with a soul and the humans that are fated to love and protect it. Read more

From the Archives, Joe Clement and special guest Dennis Gravy review the classic Christmas-time cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas. They consider anti-commercialism, alienation, cultural appropriation, white supremacy, and why the "workers revolution" that seems to prom... Read more