Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Pediatrician Margaret Flowers was among those arrested for protesting the exclusion of single payer advocates at the recent Senate hearings on health reform.  Here she talks with Bill Resnick about how for-profit health insurance led her to quit her practice and start o... Read more

 What is the role of economic and racial justice when we consider a sustainable world?  Jill Fuglister talks with Laurie Mercier about her work with the Coalition for a Livable Future and the Livability Summit held at Portland State University this week.   Read more

Women's Studies Professor Brooke Campbell talks with the Old Mole's Jan Haaken about recent controversies over erotic services offered on Craig's List. What's the difference between lining up a "date" on Craig's List and arranging a tryst through a "reputable" dating ser... Read more

 This show, part of KBOO's Spring membership drive, features the music of the local men's chorus Satori, an interview about the how successful non-violent protest has been in effecting change, and a review of a movie about burlesque and strip tease.  The host is Clayton ... Read more

Satori -- Men Singing Peace.  Artistic Director Susan Dorn and Board President Mike Shaughnessy talk with Clayton (also a member of Satori) about how the quest for peace in our world and in our lives is pursued by this local group. We also hear some of their music.  Sato... Read more

 Non-violence works, even against the most oppressive regimes.  That is the lesson journalist Eric Stoner draws from his research.  Here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.   Read more

An intoxicating mix of private thoughts and public behavior, A Wink and a Smile exposes more than the human body by putting gender, power, sexuality and social identity under the glittery spotlight, as it follows the lives of ten "ordinary" women who do something extraor... Read more

 A brief introduction to Satori Men's Chorus with Artistic Director Susan Dorn and Board President Mike Shaughnessy.   This segment includes a bonus not heard on the air: A selection from their rendition of "On Children." Read more

 How has industrial farming produced the conditions for new diseases like the current  outbreak swine flu?  Rob Wallace writes the blog Farming Pathogens, and in this conversation with the Old Mole's Jan Haaken, he explains how cities of pigs and cities of poultry create... Read more

 Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews The Laws  of Harmony, a novel by Judith Ryan Hendricks about the hazards of growing up on a 1970s hippie commune.   Read more