Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

In the second of a two-part interview, Desiree Hellegers interviews legendary Seattle folk singer, song-writer and activist Jim Page about justice, gentrification, songwriting and music as a tool of resistance. Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Tom Pepinski on the global rise of authoritarianism. Tom Pepinski is an Associate Professor in the Government Department at Cornell University. He is a co-author of the recent article: Trumpism and American Democracy: History, Comparison, and the ... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Dave Finkel, editor of Against the Current, and author of the recent essay "Open and Hidden Horrors." They discuss climate catastrophe; the wars that the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are conducting in the Middle East; the suffering in Yemen, Sy... Read more

  Jan Haaken talks with Jane Hassinger, psychoanalyst and University of Michigan Ann Arbor researcher, about her work globally with abortion providers. They take up the Trump administration's revival of the "gag rule" against U.S. aid for family planning services and ho... Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole and we hear: About the wars the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are conducting in the Middle-East; About a project to support abortion providers in their stressful work; An interview with Northwest singer-song write... Read more

  Legendary Northwest singer-songwriter Jim Page was in Portland for Winterfolk (the annual fundraiser for Sisters of the Road Cafe), and he took time out to do an interview for KBOO's Old Mole Variety Hour with Desiree Hellegers. In the course of their conversation, he... Read more

  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole  Greenwashing and Global Climate Justice: Bill Resnick talks to John Foran about corporate greenwashing and what must and can be done to save the planet.  John Foran is professor of sociology at the University of Cal... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with John Foran about corporate greenwashing and what must and can be done to save the planet.  John Foran is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Foran is currently working on a book, Taking Power or (Re)Making Power:... Read more

Frann Michel discusses the history of women cinematographers and the first-ever nomination of a woman for a best cinematography Oscar: Rachel Morrison, director of photography for Mudbound.  Frann draws on Pamela Hutchinson's recent essay in The Guardian, as well as the ... Read more

  Denise Morris and Laurie Mercier review two Academy Award nominated films, the feature film Mudbound and the documentary Strong Island. Both films take up issues of race in the US and particularly violence against Black men.     Read more