Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

As we move into the week-long youth climate strike, Desiree Hellegers speaks with Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinehart of Rethinking Schools about the impacts of Portland Public School's landmark climate justice resolution and its role in fueling fossil fuel resistance and emp... Read more

Bill Resnick talks to two students and one millennial who are organizing the Climate Strike coming to your city and neighborhood and every neighborhood around the world this Friday, Sept 20th. They discuss why the Climate Strike, its demands, what’s happening in Portland... Read more

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenage activist, whose example and eloquence has galvanized millions of students and made life very uncomfortable for rich elites, speaks at the 2018 UN Climate Summit in Poland, a shot heard round the world. She's at the UN speaking again th... Read more

Norm Diamond is our host for this edition of the Old Mole and we hear-- 1. Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Laurie Mercier discuss the classic labor and feminist film "Salt of the Earth." 2. Historian Raymond Caballero talks with Norm Diamond about McCarthyism and union strugg... Read more

Movie Moles Laurie Mercier and Jan Haaken discuss the classic 1954 film made against great odds because the film makers were black listed by the Hollywood establishment. According to Wikipedia,  The film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and po... Read more

Movie Moles Laurie Mercier and Jan Haaken discuss the classic 1954 film made against great odds because the film makers were black-listed by the Hollywood establishment. According to Wikipedia,  The film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and po... Read more

Host Norm Diamond talks with historian Raymond Caballero about Caballero's new book McCarthyism vs Clinton Jencks, as well as more about "Salt of the Earth," the film reviewed in the previous segment of today's show. Clinton Jencks was a decorated war hero who adopted as... Read more

Old Mole, library employee, and union member Joe Clement explains the ongoing struggle between  Multnomah County and temp and on-call workers who wish to join the union. You can support these workers by going to the County Board meeting at the Multnomah County Building, ... Read more

Bill Resnick talks to Greg Smith, a radical teacher of teachers and curriculum writer, on teaching climate change and the current uprising of youth around the planet. They discuss how young people are being radicalized by their understanding of climate change and by thei... Read more

  Climate activists preparing for direct action in September need to know their rights under the First Amendment. But what are those rights and how do the fascists also enlist the First Amendment in defense of their hate campaigns? Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken talk abou... Read more