Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement inagurates a hopefully recurring segment titled "Union Five". This segment features news about: UFCW and Fred Meyer's (owned by Kroger) threatening to strike and reaching a tenative agreement (Joe talked with a UFCW rep on 9/23) Kaiser workers threatening to ... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing, about how how popular police reforms fail to address the problems of--let alone the reasons for--over-policing. Vitale will be speaking Friday, Oct 11, 2019 6pm – 9pm at Portland State University, Smith... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show about the power of the people: mass action to deal with climate change, and workers’ action for fair wages. Slow Motion Commotion will be happening this Friday, Sept. 27 at Portland’s City Hall to holding the City Accountable for its ro... Read more

Joe Clement talks with Kelley McAllister, Communications Director of UFCW 555, about the labor struggle at Fred Meyers. They consider how Fred Meyers has gotten away with paying women over three dollars an hour less than men, and what the union is trying to do about it. Thi... Read more

Organizer Diane Meisenhelter talks with Clayton Morgareidge about the climate action rally coming up at Portland City Hall at noon on Friday, September 23. Marking the end of a week of ongoing climate action, Extinction Rebellion, 350.org, and other climate activists are jo... Read more

A week ago on the Old Mole,  Bill Resnick talked with three young people, two of them local high school students, about their plans and hopes for Friday’s Climate Strike action. Now Bill is back to review the results with Yenna Paris, Jackson Calhoun, and Sriya Chinnam who ... Read more

As we move into the week-long youth climate strike, Desiree Hellegers speaks with Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinehart of Rethinking Schools about the impacts of Portland Public School's landmark climate justice resolution and its role in fueling fossil fuel resistance and empowe... Read more

Bill Resnick talks to two students and one millennial who are organizing the Climate Strike coming to your city and neighborhood and every neighborhood around the world this Friday, Sept 20th. They discuss why the Climate Strike, its demands, what’s happening in Portland, a... Read more

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenage activist, whose example and eloquence has galvanized millions of students and made life very uncomfortable for rich elites, speaks at the 2018 UN Climate Summit in Poland, a shot heard round the world. She's at the UN speaking again this ... Read more

Bill Resnick hosts today's show which includes the following segments: Teaching Climate Justice: Desiree Hellegers interviews teachers and authors Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinehart about teaching climate justice. Climate Strike! Bill Resnick speaks with organizers of the upcom... Read more