Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken talks with Lluvia Magali Merello and Tanya Golden, members of the Oregon Vending Community, about native vending practices and organizing. They discuss the work of vending, and their own work in organizing vendors as a community.  Lluvia creates arts, crafts a... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this show, and we hear: 1. West Virginia teacher and organizer Nicole McCormick talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what went into the successful strike there. 2. Elizabeth Theil, Vice President of Portland Association of Teachers, explains h... Read more

  Joe Clement hosts today's show and we hear: Bill Resnick and John Foran talk about the politics of ecological crisis. Desiree Hellegers talks with medics at Portland's Occupy ICE encampment Joe Clement talks with Shane Burley about fascist movements today Follow the ... Read more

  Bill Resnick interviews John Foran who teaches at the Univ. of CA, Santa Barbara. His courses include: Earth in Crisis, Radical Social Change, Climate Justice, Globalization and Resistance, and his latest, Practical Hope. They discuss what must be done to save the pla... Read more

  Field Mole Desiree Hellegers talks with medics at Portland's Occupy ICE encampment about the health risks of resisting state violence, and about Department of Homeland Security targeting of trans and gender nonconforming activists, and activists of color. She talks al... Read more

  Joe Clement talks with Shane Burley about fascist movements today and how they want to transform society into brutal hierarchies. They consider how different systems of oppression rooted in identity and ability ( e.g. sexism, racism, able-ism, cis-sexism, etc.) are mo... Read more

  Denise Morris hosts this episode of The Old Mole which includes   Bill Resnick Interviews organizer Joanna Misnick on electoral politics and what is to be done. In a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled against the state of California in NIFLA v. Bec... Read more

Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with Chicago DSA activist Joanna Misnick on electoral politics and the challenges ahead. More on Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Read more

Frann Michel discusses the recent Supreme Court decision in NIFLA v Becerra, which ruled that crisis pregnancy centers can continue lying to people seeking reproductive health care. She comments on the decision’s relation to the patriarchal religious right, racism, and c... Read more

From the June 2018 Portland Democratic Socialists of America Socialism Day School, Katie Behrendt talks about Climate Change, System Change and the need for a planned Economy. Katie Behrendt is a member of Portland Rising Tide and has been involved in the fight against ... Read more