Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Nimiipuu Mole Julian Ankney speaks with Julian Matthews, founder of Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment, coordinator of the Nimiipuu Canoe Project, and an advocate for freeing the Snake River about how the damming of the Snake continues to impact Nimiipuu tribal sovereignty... Read more

Lakota-Cheyenne Mole Roben White speaks with Chinook tribal council member Rachel Cushman about the devastating impact of the 2002 decision under George W. Bush to rescind the Chinook tribe's federal recognition and about the tribe's long struggle for justice. Flag of Chin... Read more

  Flag of Chinookan People, via Wikimedia Commons. Roben White hosts this episode of the Old Mole, in recognition of Indigenous People’s Day. Free the Snake: Nimiipuu Mole Julian Ankney speaks with Julian Matthews, founder of Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment, coordinat... Read more

Bill Resnick and Jeremy Brecher discuss the future of human life on this planet in an age of constantly increasing global warming. Bill offers a vision of that future and also contends that two programs, one from our corporate friends, one from the left, are now competing t... Read more

To commemorate ROP’s 30 years of outstanding political work in rural Oregon, Norm Diamond talks with Sidra Pierson of the ROP staff. They discuss ROP’s history and underlying vision, the range of issues it takes up, and the impact it has. They talk, too, about an exhibit fo... Read more

  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Rural Organizing Project: To commemorate ROP’s 30 years of outstanding political work in rural Oregon, Norm Diamond talks with Sidra Pierson of the ROP staff. They discuss ROP’s hist... Read more

We play selections from the recent celebration of the 100th anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth. First a humorous clip from Zinn himself on the US government’s advice for how to spot a communist. Then Martin Espada offers a poem based on his friendship with Zinn.  Howard Zi... Read more

  For today's show the Moles bring you an episode from our archive, which originally aired on July 14, 2014. Hosted by Frann Michel, the Moles explore debates over left strategies. The show includes musical selections from Bitch Magazine's mixtape of American Protest Music... Read more

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes the following interview from Against the Grain: Neoliberalism, centrist, radical, intersectionality, the people, folks—these are all words that are used to mark out someone’s understanding of the world. Ye... Read more

Opening in July and extending through November 2022, a special exhibit at the Portland Art Museum presents a series of riveting photographs of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 through the eyes of BIPOC artists in Portland. In their Left & the Law segment, Jan Haaken ... Read more