Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  In their Left and the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker discuss the recent passage of Oregon Senate Bill 1013, the most important change to the State's capital punishment laws in years.  The new law narrows the definition of aggrivated murder--the only crime w... Read more

  Desiree Hellegers speaks by phone with Lexi Peterson Burge of the Vancouver-based Noble Foundation about racism at Clark College, and in Southwest Washington more broadly, and about the continued fallout from the Clark College Foundation’s lawsuit to try to keep OPB a... Read more

Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing, about how how popular police reforms fail to address the problems of let alone the reasons for over-policing. Five Minutes (or so) of Union News The Left and the Law con... Read more

Joe Clement inagurates a hopefully recurring segment titled "Union Five". This segment features news about: UFCW and Fred Meyer's (owned by Kroger) threatening to strike and reaching a tenative agreement (Joe talked with a UFCW rep on 9/23) Kaiser workers threatening t... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing, about how how popular police reforms fail to address the problems of--let alone the reasons for--over-policing. Vitale will be speaking Friday, Oct 11, 2019 6pm – 9pm at Portland State University, Sm... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show about the power of the people: mass action to deal with climate change, and workers’ action for fair wages. Slow Motion Commotion will be happening this Friday, Sept. 27 at Portland’s City Hall to holding the City Accountable for its ... Read more

Joe Clement talks with Kelley McAllister, Communications Director of UFCW 555, about the labor struggle at Fred Meyers. They consider how Fred Meyers has gotten away with paying women over three dollars an hour less than men, and what the union is trying to do about it. ... Read more

Organizer Diane Meisenhelter talks with Clayton Morgareidge about the climate action rally coming up at Portland City Hall at noon on Friday, September 23. Marking the end of a week of ongoing climate action, Extinction Rebellion, 350.org, and other climate activists are... Read more

A week ago on the Old Mole,  Bill Resnick talked with three young people, two of them local high school students, about their plans and hopes for Friday’s Climate Strike action. Now Bill is back to review the results with Yenna Paris, Jackson Calhoun, and Sriya Chinnam w... Read more

Bill Resnick hosts today's show which includes the following segments: Teaching Climate Justice: Desiree Hellegers interviews teachers and authors Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinehart about teaching climate justice. Climate Strike! Bill Resnick speaks with organizers of the upco... Read more