Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Lakota Cheyenne Mole Roben White hosts this all-Native Indigenous Peoples Day show, including:   Judy BlueHorse Skelton (Nez Perce/Cherokee), Assistant Professor at Portland State University (PSU) and Emma Johnson (Cowlitz), Senior Instructor at Portland State University,... Read more

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole which features a re-broadcast from Against the Grain. What is the relationship between things held in Common — from rivers and forests, to traditions of sharing and mutual aid — and communism? How should we understand th... Read more

The fight against construction of Enbridge Company's Line 3 in Minnesota, carrying tar sands oil from Canada through the Midwest, was the largest Indigenous-led pipeline resistance in North America after Standing Rock. Opposition from 2017-2021 brought thousands of people f... Read more

Lisa See’s historical novel, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, is a meticulously researched book on Chinese medicine in the 1500’s. It purports to be a record of a female doctor. Midwives, women who deliver newborns, are an essential part of medical treatment for women. “…since w... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Back to School (and Gun Violence): Right wing gun lovers are doubling down on their push to arm teachers. But as it turns out, gun-toting personnel in schools make violence wors... Read more

Right wing gun lovers are doubling down on their push to arm teachers. But as it turns out, gun-toting personnel in schools make violence worse. Our Well Read Red Sharon Grant reads from an article by teacher Nataliya Braginsky which was published June 7, 2022 in In These T... Read more

Back to School in Crisis: Claims that education is in crisis often mischaracterize the nature of the problems and of the solutions. The problems do not arise from remote learning, nor from the accurate teaching of US racial history, nor the respecting of children's gender i... Read more

The fight against construction of Enbridge Company's Line 3 in Minnesota, carrying tar sands oil from Canada through the Midwest, was the largest Indigenous-led pipeline resistance in North America after Standing Rock. Opposition from 2017-2021 brought thousands of people f... Read more

  Jon Nelson hosts this Labor Day Special of the Old Mole, which was postponed from September 4 due to unexpected problems with production. Today's show includes the following segments: A Lifetime of Labor Struggle: Bill Resnick interviews Dianne Feeley who has fought her... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Dianne Feeley who has fought her whole life for worker power, not just for a bigger piece of the pie, but for real participation and decision making in a society in which democracy is not confined to occasional elections but is nourished in daily lif... Read more