Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Kristian Williams, Portland-resident and renknown scholar of policing and police history, about the murder of Treyvon Martin. Kristian re-caps the case and those like it, but also comments on the nature of the "stand your ground" laws that have been ... Read more

Joe Clement talks with fellow Mole Jan Haaken about the significance of Adrienne Rich's prose writing about motherhood for the feminist movement in the 1970s. Read more

 Laurie Mercier and Denise Morris talk about the 1970 documentary "Finally Got The News" (re-released and available to view for free online HERE), produced in association with the League for Revolutionary Black Workers. The League was wary of the film at first, worried it w... Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and it will include: A report on student resistance to austerity measures in Greece; A look back at "The Spook Who Sat At the Door," a 1973 satirical film about black revolution; Commentary on the bourg... Read more

 As the Supreme Court takes up "Obamacare," Andrew Riley of the Center for Intercultural Organizing talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what that law does and fail to do to improve access to health care.  They also take up Governor Kitzhaber's program for Oregon an... Read more

 Eric Mankowski, Professor of Psychology at Portland State, was in Athens at the height of student protests last fall against government austerity measures that are destroying jobs and educational opportunities.  Here he talks with the Old Mole's Jan Haaken about the high l... Read more

In these times of renewed efforts to build communities of protest, Frann Michel looks back to a film about serious revolution -- "The Spook Who Sat By the Door." Made in 1973, it imagines a black revolution led by a former CIA agent. You can read this review here, where you... Read more

 Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole which features discussions of healthcare reform, protests in Greece, a film about black revolution, and a commentary on the invisibility of poverty. To hear the whole show, use the play button below.  To hear individual... Read more

 Why is it so easy to forget, or deny, that a hundred million Americans are poor or near-poor?  In this commentary, Clayton Morgareidge suggests it's because our consumer culture represents us all as willing and able buyers of commodities.   You can read this commentary her... Read more

  Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which will include -- Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discuss the role of psychology in the military; Jan is is the director of Mind Zone, a film about the work of psychologists with troops in Afghanistan.  Jan was recently... Read more