Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Janet Bauer from the Oregon Center for Public Policy talks with Laurie Mercier about why so many Oregonians are food insecure, how the new farm bill threatens the SNAP program and the lives of 1 in 6 Oregonians, and what we can do to help insure more widespread access to... Read more

The Old Mole’s Bill Resnick speaks with Michael Bierute, a graphic designer who has been senior critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art. Bierute has won international design awards and has many publications, including the Design Observer, a blog of design and ... Read more

Laurie Mercier hosts this episode of the Old Mole, with these segments: 1. Joe Clement talks with IWW organizer Marianne Lebatt about solidarity unionism and taking direct action in the workplace. 2. Janet Bauer from the Oregon Center for Public Policy talks with Laurie ... Read more

Field Mole Desiree Hellegers speaks with canoe families and kayaktivists who were in Seattle on May 20 for an Indigenous-led day of resistance to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline, which would carry oil from the Alberta Tar Sands to tankers in the port of Burnaby... Read more

Tom Becker reads from an article by David Spencer, entitled “The Need to Work Less is a Matter of Life and Death,” about the impossible demands on workers’ time extracted by the capitalist economy. David Spencer is a Professor of Economics and Political Economy at  Unive... Read more

Tom Becker hosts this episode  of the Old Mole: Building a Healthy Neighborhood in Cully: Bill Resnick interviews Carolina Iraheta and Tony DeFalco of the organization Verde. Civilization and Our Discontents: Clayton Morgareidge comments about how the comforts of modern ... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Carolina Iraheta and Tony DeFalco of the organization Verde which is organizing in the Cully neighborhood to increase affordable housing, stop displacement, and make Cully a model in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and stop global warming.   P... Read more

In a piece called "Civilization and Our Discontents," Clayton Morgareidge shows that the glories of Civilization have always required the coerced labor of forgotten masses, and the same is true of the comforts of modern life: they are manufactured by the poor for the enj... Read more

  Capitalist Agriculture, Domestic Gag Rule, Patriotism, Israel/Palestine Clayton Morgareidge hosts and we hear How capitalist agriculture is ruining the soil our food grows in;   How Trump is planning to stifle abortion info in the US;   Why it's time to get over pat... Read more