Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick reads from "Rise of the Student Worker" in Red Pepper, exploring the changing social/political position of student. Through the mid 20th century they were relatively privileged, mostly from the top 30% and highly subsidized by cheap tuition, housing, and food -... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Sophie Smith, a humanitarian aid worker in Arivaca Arizona and co-founder of People Helping People in the Border Lands. They discuss the recent trial of Scott Warren in Tucson--a fellow humanitarian aid worker who was criminally prosecuted for providin... Read more

Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick reviews the PBS "American Experience" documentary about Emma Goldman, which rebroadcasts this weekend and Monday night. Joe talks with local meditator and activist, Guy Berliner, about the corporate promotion of mindfulness med... Read more

Bill Resnick reviews the PBS "American Experience" documentary about Emma Goldman. Drawing on the analysis of Candace Falk, of the Emma Goldman Archive Project at UC Berkeley, Bill criticizes the show's soft-pedaling of Emma's radical politics and the good sense she had for... Read more

Tom Becker hosts today's show which includes: Forest Health and Climate Change: An interview with Brenna Bell, forest protector and Policy Director and Attorney for Bark. Socialism or Barbarism: A reading from an essay by Rosa Luxemburg. The Things We Don’t Say: A review o... Read more

  Good morning.  This is Frann Michel for the Well-Read Red, with some comments on “Socialism or Barbarism,”  a slogan most associated with the work of Rosa Luxemburg.  Luxemburg was born in Russian-controlled Poland in 1871 to a Jewish family, and early in her life becam... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Brenna Bell, a forest protector with an extensive background in environmental law and education, who is Policy Director and Attorney for Bark, an organization dedicated to the preservation and restoration of Mt. Hood National Forest. Read more

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Ella Carey’s 2018 novel, The Things We Don’t Say, set in early twentieth century London and Provence. The book is inspired by the history of a collective of young artists and writers known as the Bloomsbury Group. Read more

Left and the Law commentator Mike Snedecker interviews Jim Smith, an immigration lawyer who lives and practices at the border. Using the example of Honduras, they discuss the “push” factors (poverty, violence and political repression) that impel immigrants to leave their ho... Read more

  Laurie Mercier and Natasha co-host this episode of the Old Mole, and we hear these segments: Bill Resnick speaks to Data Engineer Michael Hanna, volunteer Campaign Manager for the Municipal Broadband PDX Campaign about municipal broadband. Laurie Mercier interviews Ku... Read more