Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Occupy Portland will be bursting from its winter quarters onto the streets very soon.  The Old Mole's Bill Resnick talks with two local activists about how the movement has been building over the winter and what to expect as the weather warms.  First we hear from Joe Li... Read more

 Movie Moles Joe Clement and Jan Haaken review the 1984 John Sayles film Brother From Another Planet about a mysterious alien who lands in New York while escaping from slavery on "another planet" and experiences the problems of American society from a unique perspective.   Read more

Jan Haaken talks with attorney Mike Snedeker about Steven T. Wax's new book Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror - A Public Defender's Inside Account.  Wax is the head of the Oregon Federal Public Defenders’ office and has represented prisone... Read more

 Denise Morris hosts this show on which we hear from activists working for immigrant rights and for the Spring return of Occupy Portland. We also hear a review of the 1984 John Sayles movie Brother From Another Planet and a discussion of the book Kafka Comes to America: ... Read more

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 be... 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 i... Read more

Tom Becker talks with our radical musicologist, Brad Duncan, about Alix Dobkin. They reflect on her "red-diaper" up-bringing, her recent autobiography "My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Fem... Read more

           Joe Clement hosts today's Old Mole. We hear about the Treyvon Martin case, Adrienne Rich's work on motherhood, a poem by Adrienne Rich, a movie review about revolutionary black workers, and a radical musicology segment about Alix Dobkins, who we hear throughou... Read more

 In honor of the late Adrienne Rich, Frann Michel reads a poem of hers called "Ballad of the Poverties". Read more