Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

We play selections from the recent celebration of the 100th anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth. First a humorous clip from Zinn himself on the US government’s advice for how to spot a communist. Then Martin Espada offers a poem based on his friendship with Zinn.  Howard... Read more

  For today's show the Moles bring you an episode from our archive, which originally aired on July 14, 2014. Hosted by Frann Michel, the Moles explore debates over left strategies. The show includes musical selections from Bitch Magazine's mixtape of American Protest Mu... Read more

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes the following interview from Against the Grain: Neoliberalism, centrist, radical, intersectionality, the people, folks—these are all words that are used to mark out someone’s understanding of the world.... Read more

Laurie Mercier speaks with Miriam Pemberton about her new book, Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Rethinking Warfare Economies. Pemberton has studied the U.S. military economy and the means of shrinking it down to size for decades, first as Director of the Nationa... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Jeremy Brecher, labor activist, writer and historian, who has extensively studied popular upheavals through U.S history. In the 1930s and again in the ‘60s very few predicted the explosive uprisings from below, which profoundly changed this countr... Read more

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The National Security Tour: Laurie Mercier speaks with Miriam Pemberton about her new book, Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Rethinking Warfare Economies. Pemberton has ... Read more

Opening in July and extending through November 2022, a special exhibit at the Portland Art Museum presents a series of riveting photographs of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 through the eyes of BIPOC artists in Portland. In their Left & the Law segment, Jan Haak... Read more

The rapid, spectacular, entirely unexpected, self-organizing of workers at Amazon, Starbucks, and many other local franchises relying on low wage service workers inspired many observers of the labor scene to what they see as “spontaneous” uprisings as the route to a new ... Read more

Often missing from the current public debates about assaults on reproductive rights are the workers who put themselves more and more at risk to provide abortion services. Patricia Kullberg speaks with filmmaker and Mole Jan Haaken and reproductive rights activist Sierra ... Read more

Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker pay tribute to Mike Davis, the Southern California based author, activist, urban theorist and historian who is in the late stages of terminal cancer. Davis is  the author of Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, In Praise of Barbarians, and more t... Read more