Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken talks with Aaward winning documentary filmmaker Kathy Kasic about her new documentary "Loose Horses." The film focuses on the the intermediary auction pens in which unwanted domestic horses might either find a new life or be sent to the slaughterhouse. Set in ... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this 4th of July episode and we hear:   Bill resnick talks with Patricia Smith, former union organizer and lobbyist, about the plight of school-workers who make less than $15 and their importance in our educational communties. We hear a short documen... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Tricia Smith. She started in politics as a community activist in Keizer-Salem, got fed up with the state legislature, ran against the Republican leader and, shockingly, won, got recognized as tireless bulldog for working people. She was defeate... Read more

  The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert, is about the five catastrophic breaks in the history of life on earth and the sixth such catastrophe, which Kolbert maintains is now happening, and which we are already a few hundred years into. This the first of the great e... Read more

  The "Just Transition" is to that new economy necessary to avoid environmental cataclysm, a transition that creates good work and income for all and cleans up the environmental ruination of low income particularly people of color communities. That is, Just Transition m... Read more

  The fourth of July in the United States is not just a holiday when white people celebrate killing each other over land that wasn't theirs. It's about a document; it's about the contradictions and possibilities in the language of freedom and equality. The fourth of Jul... Read more

  Joe Clement hosts this 4th of July episode and plays The Rent is Too Damn High, in addition to more great music and these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Patricia Smith, former union organizer and lobbyist, about the plight of school-workers who make less than $15 a... Read more

  Desiree Hellegers speaks with Imogene Williams and Lowen Berman, two of the twenty-one activists who were arrested at the Vancouver, Washington oil train protest and blockade on June 18.     Read more

  Denise Morris reads from "Brexit and the New Global Rebellion" by Richard Eskow, on Britain’s vote to leave the EU.     Read more

  Laurie Mercier speaks to Michael Helquist about the upcoming June 29 Birth Control Brigade in downtown Portland. Michael Helquist is the author of  MARIE EQUI Radical Politics & Outlaw Passions. The event will commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the arrests of nu... Read more