Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Joe Clement talks with Marianne Garneau about strikes and the politics of worker-power. They consider how strikes have been tamed in the last 100 year by labor law and what that has meant for their usefulness in winning gains for workers. If strikes are still useful, ... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Emma Rae Lierley of the Rainforest Action Network about the fires burning in the planet’s last remaining major rainforests in Brazil, Indonesia, and the Congo. Governments and agribusiness corporations like Cargill and financial interests like Bla... 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

Clayton Morgareidge will host this episode of the Mole which includes these segments: Bill Resnick interviews a local housing activist Margo Black about rents, evictions, and homelessness Desiree Hellegers brings voices in protest of closing the Columbia Pool and oth... Read more

The Old Mole's Bill Resnick talks with Margot Black of Tenants United about how rents go up as wages go down and what that means for middle and low-income families.  Photo: 24Housing Read more

Larry Bowlden reviews a newly republished novel by Richard Stern that is beautifully written in spite of its sexist assumptions. More of Larry's reviews can be found here. Read more

Is Portland is poised to begin privatizing pools, parks and recreation centers? Field Mole Desiree Hellegers talks with union organizers, activists and community members--including actor and jazz and Gospel singer  Marilyn Keller-- about the pending loss of 70 union jobs... Read more

Field Mole Desiree Hellegers talks with union organizers, activists and community members about the city wide impacts of cuts to Portland Parks and Recreation, and about what activists are doing to push back against the slated closure of Columbia Pool in North Portland. ... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge elaborates on Chloe Watlington's remark that deaths of despair are really "capital punishment for those who fall down in the race for success in a winners-take-all society." Clayton's conclusion is nevertheless a hopeful one. You can read this piece h... Read more

Bill Resnick hosts   Bill talks with Arun Gupta about the Fascist visit to Portland August 17 Bill talks with Christian Parenti about climate Jan Haaken talks with psychoanalyst Christine Schmidt about reparations   To hear the whole show, use the play button below; to l... Read more