Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Clayton Morgareidge shows how the power of capital to go on strike is the most important leverage the wealthy elite have over government. He draws on "When Capital Goes on Strike" from the Jacobin Magazine website, and this 1935 piece by Bertholt Brecht.   Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this short, membership-drive edition of the Old Mole, and we hear... • Larry Bowlden reviews Nella Larsen’s 1928 novel from the Harlem Renaissance, Quicksand; • Bill Resnick and historian Bill Smaldone look for lessons about Trump in the ri... Read more

  Quicksand (1928), a novel by Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen, describes the befuddlement of a young woman whose mother is Danish and whose father is African-American. She feels at home neither in America nor in Denmark, and finally suffers through an existentia... Read more

Denise Morris hosts and here's the lineup: 1. We get a preview of the 27th Annual African Film Festival coming up at Portland Community College from two of its organizers. 2. Denise talks with a social studies teacher about teaching about the election of Trump. 3. A pan... Read more

  Laurie Mercier talks with Mathew dos Santos, Legal Director of the ACLU Oregon and their litigation and legal advocacy program. They discuss challenges facing immigrants under the Trump regime. Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Erica Etelson of California's Local Clean Energy Alliance about her state's resistance to Trump's energy policies.  Read more

  Jasmine Zimmer-Stucky, a senior engineer with Columbia Riverkeeper, talks with Laurie Mercier about the proposal for the world's largest methanol refinery, scheduled for the port of Kalama, Washington,  and about strategies for resistance.  The public comment period l... Read more