Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

    A haunting tale of love, loss and familial duty, and winner of the 2009 UK Costa Novel Award, Brooklyn follows the fortunes of a young Irish woman who leaves home to make a new life for herself in 1950s New York. Book Mole Larry Bowlden recommends it here.   Read more

  Probably best known for having performed her poetry at the opening of the United Nations Climate Summit in New York in 2014, activist and artist Jetñil-Kijiner talks here with Desiree about poetry for the people, the impact of US imperialism and climate change on her ... Read more

  Frann Michel hosts this episode, which features these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Jaimes Valdez of NW SEED about renewable energy Frann shares the Old Mole Activist Calendar Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Colm Tóibín's novel Brooklyn Desiree Hellegers talks with... Read more

  Oregon is behind California and many other places in responding to climate change, but a program called Community Energy, enacted by the legislature last year, might provide a start towards meaningful action, if the Public Utility Commission writes rules that make tha... Read more

M 3/27 Respond to ICE detention of Francisco J Rodriguez Dominguez Francisco J. Rodriguez Dominguez is a 25-year-old and a DACA recipient who was detained by ICE agents without a warrant at his Portland home on Sunday morning. It was reported that Francisco entered into a... Read more

Joe Clement* talks with Zak Wear of Fair and Affordable Richmond. He was the campaign manager of Measure L, a ballot measure that passed in the November election of last year, thereby establishing rent-control and eliminating no-cause evictions. They talk about what the ... Read more

Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker talk about the two federal courts last week that challenged Trump's revised anti-Muslim travel ban and what some describe as a consitutional crisis. They also take up how these recent legal challenges shape current border politics. Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Alex de Jong* from the Netherlands about right-wing populism in the Netherlands. They consider how globalization has affected the Dutch working-class, the shift to the right in government, but also the failure of the right-wing candidate, Geert Wi... Read more

Bill Resnick hosts this episode and we hear: Joe Clement talks to Zak Wear about how Rent Control was won in Richmond Californa Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker talk about immigration and Trump's travel ban Bill talks with Alex Dejung about right-wing populism in the Nethe... Read more