Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Larry Kleinman, Secretary-Tresurer of PCUN, a union for all Oregon's farmworkers. They discuss the potential impact of different kinds of immigration reform. This is the second of a two-part interview. The first can be found here. Read more

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Jan Haaken talks with Mary Liz Thomson, the director of Who Bombed Judi Bari?. Judi Bari was an environmental activist, labor organizer and feminist who helped to bridge crucial gaps between how timber workers and radical environmentalists understood each other. She also... Read more

 How did serious immigration reform become likely in 2013?  Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with Larry Kleinman of Northwest Tree Planters and Farmworkers Union (Piñeros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste -- PCUN) about why Congressional majorities are likely to pass something... Read more

Larry Bowlden reviews Cory Taylor's new novel about "feeling old when you're not, and acting young when you're not."  It's called Me and Mr. Booker, and it's told in the voice of the lead character -- "a strong and mostly lucid voice."  More of Larry's reviews can be fou... Read more

 Work is supposed to give life meaning, but are not our lives meaningful even when we can't work?  In this commentary, Iven Hale draws on her own work and life experience to question the way work happens to us in this capitalist society.   Read more

 The 23d Cascade Festival of African Films is going on this month at PCC's Cascade Campus, through March 2.  P.C. Peri and the Old Mole's Jan Haaken have their annual conversation previewing the festival's films and the Festival's purpose --seeing Africa through African ... Read more

 Grocery workers at Fred Meyer are considering whether to go on strike.  In this commentary, Old Mole Joe Clement looks at what business-labor unions like the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) are, and are not, providing for workers, drawing on a piece by Natasha... Read more

 Joe Clement hosts this episode of the Mole, dealing with immigration reform; the meaning of life with and without work;  the short-comings of "business-labor unions;"  seeing African through African lenses here in Portland; and a new novel about acting, and not acting, ... Read more

Tom Becker reads from Dave Lindorff's article "What's wrong with America?: The real enemy is growth." Read more