Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick and Richard Smith, a China expert. Can China save what is loosely known as civilization?   Desiree Hellegers and Dan Handelman of Portland Copwatch on the Portland Police Bureau’s new draft policy on the use of force. Frann Mic... Read more

  Laurie Mercier hosts this week’s Old Mole Variety Hour, where Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker discuss Trump's travel ban and the Supreme Court decision last week, federal proposed anti-immigration bills, and politics around barring refugees and asylum seekers; Bill Resni... Read more

  Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker talk about border politics throuth the lens of the June 26th Supreme Court decision that partially upheld Trump's travel ban--and they discuss the psychological dynamics of various forms of anti-immigrant propoganda.    Read more

  Bill Resnick concludes his two-part interview with Larry Kleinman, co-founder of PCUN, Oregon’s farmworker organization, who discusses the politics of immigration, how unsettled they are, and how states are resisting the anti-immigrant forces. Part One is available h... Read more

  Jan Haaken and Denise Morris review the film Wonder Woman, and the history of the comic book character and her status as a feminist icon. They also touch on some of the controversy around the film.      Read more

  Frann Michel hosts this episode, which includes these segments:  Bill Resnick interviews Larry Kleinman, co-founder of PCUN, about current immigration issues; Movie Moles Joe Clement & Frann Michel discuss Antz (1998),  a cartoon for workers of all ages; Jan Haaken i... Read more

  (trigger warning: Woody Allen)  The cgi-animated adventure-comedy Antz (1998),  available from the Multnomah County Library, shows viewers of all ages that when you are confronted with the threat of a fascist takeover, the appropriate response is to organize the worke... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Larry Kleinman, a co-founder of the farmworker union PCUN, and currently an advisor to immigrant rights organizations around the country. They discuss some of the history and recent developments in immigration law; some changes in the experienc... Read more

  Jan Haaken interviews Old Mole Clayton Morgareidge about his new book Demystifying Demons: Rethinking Who and What We Are.  Working on the boundary of philosophy and psychoanalysis, it's a volume that one reviewer has called "a spiritual book for atheists" and an "eng... Read more

    The abolition of slavery was seen as an assault on property rights, and so it was, as millions of enslaved people valued in the billions of dollars ceased to be property on June 19, 1865 (Juneteenth). This constituted a radical change that points the way towards ab... Read more