Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Portland Rising and Portland Association of Teachers is bringing Nicole McCormick, a leader of the WV teachers strike, to Portland to talk about the strike, lessons learned. Bill Resnick talks with Nicole about her upcoming visit. Photo Credit: https://www.marxismconfer... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Elizabeth Theil about Portland Public Schools. Elizabeth Theil is currently the Vice President of Portland Association of Teachers.  Read more

Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discuss the article "Power Causes Brain Damage: How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise," written by Jerry Useem for Atlantic Monthly July/August.  Photo Credit:  Universal ... 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

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

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Elisabeth Cohen’s, The Glitch, a quirky, insightful novel about high-powered women, the drive for success, and the future role of artificial intelligence devices.   Read more

Hosted by Denise Morris, this edition of the Old Mole features: 1. Bill Resnick talking with Chicago DSA activist Joanna Misnick about Democratic Socialists and elections; 2. Frann Michele commenting on a Supreme Court decision undermining access to reproductive services... Read more