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

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

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

  Desiree Hellegers interviews Huy Ong, Executive Director of OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon, about their organizing work with Bus Riders Unite and about Trimet's 2018 budget proposal, which includes $11 million dollars for a new Rose Quarter transit police station a... Read more

  In 1972 British writer David Widgery wrote an article about the bitter intensity of love in capitalism, about why and how love must be tamed and commodified in capitalist society. It was recently republished on the website of Red Pepper Magazine, and here Clayton Morg... Read more

Here are two featured opportunities for political engagment this week: 1. The Community Alliance of Tenants and Stable Homes for Oregon Families are providing transportation and other resources for those who register to join them in Salem on Wednesday to lobby state legis... Read more

Frann Michel hosts this episode and we hear: 1. Conn Hallinan and Bill Resnick consider whether Trump has a foreign policy and some of the grave dangers this president poses. 2. Huy Ong of OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon talks with the Old Mole's Desiree Hellegers abou... Read more