Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Alan Wieder remembers the Rivonia Raid 50 years after it happened. The South African government in the early 1960s attacked the Rovonia farm, then occupied by the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. These two groups, from which Nelson Mandela... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode and we hear:Bill Resnick talks with Bruce Popdobnik about climate change activismAlan Wieder comments on the Rovina Raids and nonviolent struggle in South AfricaClayton Morgareidge comments on waking up to the amazing existence of t... Read more

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While the Mayor and the City Council make plans for cutting services, other members of the community are planning a budget that would increase the services that make for a civilized city.  Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with two activists involved in the People's Budget Pro... Read more

Elizabeth Strout's new novel The Burgess Boys concerns two brothers who must return to their home town to deal with issues they thought they'd left behind.  The novel shows how extraordinary are the lives of ordinary people living ordinary lives when seen through the eye... Read more

Two bills which impose increased penalties on those who take direct action to save trees and endangered species have passed the Oregon House and are on their way to the Senate -- HB 2595 and HB 2596.  Well-read Red Cara Dugas explains what's in them, what's wrong with th... Read more

Film maker Deb Tullman, co-director of Born This Way, talks with the Old Mole's Denise Morris about her film and Q-Doc -- Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival which is happening this weekend.  Here is all the relelvant festival info.  Born This Way  takes place in Ca... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this episode, which includes:Bill Resnick talks with Megan Hise and Shamus Cooke about the People's Budget Project for Portland.Larry Bowlden reviews Elizabeth Strout's new novel The Burgess Boys.Well-read Red Cara Dugas discusses Oregon bills that woul... Read more

Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair about NBA player Jason Collins coming out. They use the situation as an opportunity to relfect on what it means to come out and the particular expectations built into this process, about who can come out about what.   Yasmin Nair is a... Read more

Frann Michel and Joe Clement review the documentary "Shift Change", directed/produced by Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young. The documentary surveys several cooperatively owned and managed businesses, mostly in the United States but also Spain's famous Mondragon. We hear fro... Read more