Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Denise Morris discusses the upcoming Pride Night Event 'What the GenderFuck' with Juliet Mylan and Evan Burchfield. Event takes place June 12th, 7:30pm at The Funhouse Lounge,  2432 SE 11th, Portland, Oregon 97214 503-309-3723.   Proceeds will benefit the Portland DSA... Read more

Why isn’t the climate crisis big news on the main stream news media? Why does our government remain blasé in the face of this crisis?  How can they largely continue to ignore the biggest threat to humanity of our time, or of any  time? Tom Becker shares an article entitl... Read more

Our Left and the Law team, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker, give us an update on the Juliana vs United States government case--the civil lawsuit filed by 17 young people in Oregon against the US government. The case argues that government inaction on the climate crisis is d... Read more

Hosted by Tom Becker, this edition of the Old Mole includes these pieces: Second grade teacher Rachel Hanes talks about the dillemas facing public school teachers A conversation about how to carry out political education  An article "As the World Burns: Hurtling Towards... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Rachel Hanes an outstanding 2nd grade teacher and a member of the Portland Association of Teachers Union.  She serves on the union’s environmental education committee. In this first part of a two-part interview, Bill and Rachel discuss the challen... Read more

Joe Clement and Kevin Dugan start a series of conversations about political education, introducing the union acronym AEIOU - agitate, educate, inoculate, organize, and union. Here they expand on these five concepts and explain how you can use them to educate your friends... Read more

  Densie Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes Fake News: the PERS Crisis: Bill Resnick interviews Mark Brenner on the manufactured PERS crisis and the larger real crisis of pensions, with most Americans having little more than Social Security when t... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Mark Brenner on the manufactured PERS crisis and the larger real crisis of pensions, with most Americans having little more than Social Security when they retire. Mark Brenner, PhD, is an economist, journalist, labor activist and career instructor... Read more

Book Mole Larry Bowldon reviews Pulitzer Prize-winner author Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Lowland, which explores the immigrant experience in the U.S. Read more

Desiree Hellegers interviews Ophelia Noble, founder and Executive Director of the Vancouver-based Noble Foundation, and an organizer with Southwest Washington Communities United for Change, about the Vancouver Police Department’s escalating use of lethal force against pe... Read more