Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Larry Bolden reviews Tara Conklin's "The House Girl", a story split between the present day and the days of slavery. Larry commends it for not just being a cleverly constructed story, but deeply researched and informative about the realities of abolitionist struggle. Read more

Norm Diamond hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick and David Finkle, talking about a recent Syrian Peace Summit. Clayton Morgareidge offers a reading about "snow days under socialism" Larry Bowlden reviews Terra Konklins, "The House Girl". Norm offers s... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with David Finkle about the history and various contexts surrounding the violent conflicts in Syria, including the prospects of peace suggested by summit in Syria. Finkle edits "Against the Current" and writes about the Middle East Read more

Denise Morris Hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes Bill Resnick interviews Kim Laval director of the NW Center for Alternatives to Pesticides. They talk about what's in our water and what can be done about it Joe Clement and Laurie Mercier talk about ... Read more

Laurie Mercier talks with tenant union organizer and Old Mole Joe Clement about Portland Tenants United (PTU)  and tenant unionism as a response to the housing crisis. PTU is a tenant union that has grown out of a number of communities and have already helped stop one ev... Read more

Dangerous water -- dangerous to our health -- has been in the news lately because of what happened in Flint, Michigan. Major polutants of water include pesticides from industrial agriculture. Jeremy Olsen is Assistant Director at the Northwest Center for Alternatives to ... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this show and this is what it covers: 1.  Desiree Hellegers talks with Cowlitz Tribal members about the threat to their ancentral lands from a mining company. 2. Laurie Mercier and Joe Clement discuss the purpose, strategy and actions of the Portland ... Read more

Desiree Hellegers speaks with Cowlitz tribal leadership about the battle to stop the Canadian mining company Ascot Resources, Ltd., from developing a copper, gold, and molybdenum mine in the Green River Valley, northeast of Mount St. Helens. The proposed mine would be on... Read more

On the next Old Mole, Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Jan Haaken interviews Carole Joffe. She has followed the abortion rights movement as a sociologist for decades. She will be giving her take on the State of the Abortion  Rights movement (playing on Obama's talk to t... Read more

On this day commemorating the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr., Old Mole Bill Resnick is joined by Jesse Hagopian to talk about how King has been made into a harmless campaigner against racial injustices that are no longer with us. Hagopian teaches at Garfield Hig... Read more