Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Desiree Hellegers reads an excerpt from Craig Steven Wilders' Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of American Universities that illuminates the long history of medical experimentation on people of color in the U.S., and that challenges claims about scie... Read more

In the aftermath of the November election, Unions are facing a host of challenges. On April 8th 2017 Labor Notes was in town for the Portland Troublemakers School to help union members and Organizers understand and learn to fight back against such challenges as Right to ... Read more

Host Tod Sloan and long time Old Mole and radical activist Bill Resnick discuss upcoming opportunties for political action. They highlight the May Day March and Rally, All Power to the People: Rise Up, Resist, Unite Monday, May 1, 2017 from noon–5pm Shemanski Park 1010 ... Read more

Tod Sloan hosts this episode of the Old Mole and we hear-- 1.  Alex Diamond talks with Bill Resnick about his experience teaching in a poor schools in Memphis. 2.  Desiree Hellegers reads from a history of how the bodies of people of color were used to study and teach an... Read more

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Lilac Girls, by Martha Hall Kelley; it’s a historically based novel about three women during World War II, one Polish, one German, and the other American. It focuses on Ravensbruck, the Nazi concentration camp for women. Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Jody Wiser about the struggle for more progressive tax policies in Oregon. Jody Wiser is a founder of Tax Fairness Oregon. Read more

Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes: Denise talks with Margot Black about HB 2004 a proposed bill to end no-cause evictions and prevent massive rent hikes with rent control measures. Bill Resnick talks with Jody Wiser about the struggle for mo... Read more

Host Denise Morris talks with Margot Black, a founding member of Portland Tenants United, about HB 2004 a bill in the Oregon Legislature to end no-cause evictions and lift the ban on rent-control (otherwise illegal since the 1980s) It has already passed the House. They d... Read more

We hear about the founding of Portland Tenants United, and the "labor union" approach to tenant power that informs their organizing, from Margot Black when she participated in a panel discussion at the April 8th 2017 Labor Notes sponsored Troublmakers School. The whole w... Read more

Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with Conn Hallinan about Trump’s foreign policy: Is there a pattern? Is he just an impulsive madman? Or are we looking at the throes of the wounded U.S. empire at the end of the American century? Conn Hallinan writes for  Foreign Policy In Foc... Read more