Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Assault on the Environment: One of the first executive orders issued by Trump in January was a Whitehouse paper titled "Unleashing American Energy." It promises to restore Am... Read more

  Health, care for all or for some? Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode of the Old Mole includes these segments: Healthcare for ALL Oregon:  Oregon is poised to become the first state in the union to enact a single payer health care plan. In June of this year, the Uni... Read more

  The current federal government has slashed resources for public health and for people with disabilities, and in doing so has suggested that vulnerable people are social burdens, "waste" to be cut.  In her article "The Eugenics Logic Behind Running a Government Like a ... Read more

  Oregon is poised to become the first state in the union to enact a single payer health care plan. In June of this year, the Universal Health Plan Governance Board for the State of Oregon will present for public input the first draft of its comprehensive plan. The fina... Read more

  This Saturday afternoon, April 19th, a climate justice rally will be held from 3-5 pm at the Elizabeth Caruthers Park in Portland. The theme of the rally is local and global: From the US to the Philippines: Defend Lands and Land Defenders. Jan Haaken talks with two or... Read more

  Rule of the billionaires: Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast of a show from Against the Grain. The rich have not been so powerful and mind-bogglingly wealthy since the Gilded Age of the late 19th century. Yet their grip on society ha... Read more

  Improving Taxation, Empowering Coalitions: This episode is hosted by Frann Michel and features these segments: Improving Taxation: Economist Mary King explains the need for taxes and the  inequities of current property taxes in Oregon,  and she proposes several ways ... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments on immigration: Growing up Undocumented: Patricia Kullberg speaks with Luisa Martinez about growing up undocumented in Florida and the deprivation and shame entailed in living... Read more

Patricia Kullberg speaks with Luisa Martinez about growing up undocumented in Florida and the deprivation and shame entailed in living as an impoverished Latina without papers. She relates how encountering the ideas of socialism offered her a new perspective on how imper... Read more

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz argues that migrants to the US, largely from the global south, are Americanized in ways that obscure the settler-colonialism that this country was founded on and that we have yet to reckon with. Our Well Read Red, Patricia Kullberg reads excerpts fro... Read more