Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Data Engineer Michael Hanna, volunteer Campaign Manager for the Municipal Broadband PDX Campaign and activist with the Municipal Broadband Coalition of America, about how municipal broadband--which we can bring to Portland--is cheap, democratic, forc... Read more

Laurie talks to Kumar Rao, Senior Staff Attorney for Racial Justice at the Center for Popular Democracy, about invest-divest campaigns in cities across the country that give communities a voice in local funding decisions and support investments in supportive services and di... Read more

  Desiree Hellegers brings audio highlights from the June 4 rally in Pioneer Courthouse Square in support of the Children's Trust climate justice lawsuit Juliana v. United States. The landmark case being argued in front of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit... Read more

  Denise Morris Hosts this episode of the Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with teacher Rachel Hanes about pedagogy. Part One of of their discussion of public education is here.  Denise Morris talks with Mark Brenner about the recent vote to cut PERS benefits. Mark's earlie... Read more

  Freeing Up the Time of Our Lives A commentary based on Martin Hägglund’s This Life: Secular Life and Spiritual Freedom. Life is short and fragile, which makes it precious. Capitalism wastes and abuses our time, while socialism can make our time our own.  You can read t... Read more

  In Part 2 of a 2 part discussion on public education, Bill Resnick talks with teacher Rachel Hanes about the pedagogy of the three second grade classes at her middle school while still managing to sufficiently satisfy the various corporate education requirements. In Part... Read more

  Denise Morris talks with Mark Brenner about the recent vote to cut PERS benefits. Mark Brenner is the former Director of Labor Notes now currently working at University of Oregon’s Labor Education & Research Center. On May 27th Mark Brenner spoke to Bill Resnick about th... Read more

  Denise Morris discusses the upcoming Pride Night Event 'What the GenderFuck' with Juliet Mylan and Evan Burchfield. Event takes place June 12th, 7:30pm at The Funhouse Lounge,  2432 SE 11th, Portland, Oregon 97214 503-309-3723.   Proceeds will benefit the Portland DSA Qu... Read more

Joe Clement and Kevin Dugan start a series of conversations about political education, introducing the union acronym AEIOU - agitate, educate, inoculate, organize, and union. Here they expand on these five concepts and explain how you can use them to educate your friends an... Read more

Why isn’t the climate crisis big news on the main stream news media? Why does our government remain blasé in the face of this crisis?  How can they largely continue to ignore the biggest threat to humanity of our time, or of any  time? Tom Becker shares an article entitled ... Read more