Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Extinction Rebellion PDX (XRPDX) is launching what it describes as a Spring Rebellion beginning on April 24th with a series of non-violent actions against banks and other industries that profit from fossil fuels. Jan Haaken talks with Lynn Spitaleri Handlin, organizer wi... Read more

  Right: Young doffers in Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C., early 1900’s; a public domain photo by Lewis Hine     Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes a re-broadcast from Against the Grain: The failure to unionize the South, to organize South... Read more

  Organizers of events need to take COVID precautions into account and make clear their provisions for safer access, disability solidarity, and community health & safety. Frann Michel explains, and recommends the Guide to Practicing Inclusion in the Time of COVID from t... Read more

Pentagon Papers thief and hero Daniel Ellsberg, antiwar and antinuclear activist who escaped lifelong imprisonment because of government misconduct, turned 92 this week. Terminally ill, he sent a powerful letter to friends and comrades. Norm Diamond reads from that lette... Read more

On the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, and the 50-year commemoration of the pullout of the last American troops from Vietnam, the US national security establishment still clings to the imperial delusion that we can bully the world, challenge Russia and China... Read more

Desiree Hellegers and Julian Ankney talk about Washington State University's upcoming virtual conference on April 21st and 22nd exploring the intersections of Native Sovereignty, Decolonization, Divestment, Reparations, and Environmental Justice. The conference is free a... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Hypocrisy of American Might: On the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, and the 50-year commemoration of the pullout of the last American troops from Vietnam, th... Read more

Bill Resnick talks to John Bellamy Foster about the future of the planet and what we call “civilization.”  They discuss several issues: the time remaining to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations and stop global roasting; the risks of thinking in terms of decades; and whe... Read more

In his review of Barbara Kingsolver’s 2022 novel, Demon Copperhead, Book Mole Larry Bowlden notes that Kingsolver displays her genius once again. You need not reread Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield to understand how Kingsolver adapts that tale to modern times, writin... Read more

Bill Resnick talks to Jesse Hagopian, the second part of an interview examining the right wing effort across the country, led by Florida, to sanitize school curriculums – from pre-K through higher ed – of anything that offends them, particularly examinations of Black His... Read more