Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Laurie Mercier talks with Margot Black of Portland Tenants’ United and with Mercy Strongheart of the Wimby Tenants Union about the Nov. 26th press conference at Wimbledon Square and Gardens to demand a rent abatement for ongoing livability issues, and about organizing fo... Read more

  Frann Michel rounds up resources showing we have less time than we thought, but shouldn't give up.  The text of her comments, with links to sources, can be found on the Old Mole blog.     image via the World Health Organization     Read more

  Jan Haaken talks with Emily Johnston about the trial in Minnesota last month where she and two other climate activists enlisted the Necessity Defense in a landmark jury trial.  In October of 2016 Emily was one of the five "valve turners" who together instigated shutdown ... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick and Larry Klineman talk about local and national immigration politics, including the defeat of Measure 105. Larry Bowlden reviews Barbara Kingsolver's latest novel, Unsheltered. Joe shares special audio and music abo... Read more

  Joe Clement shares music by and about  IWW Organizer Joe Hill, including Phil Ochs' ballad of his life and untimely death by execution on November 19, 1915.  Joe C.  plays songs from Don't Mourn, Organize: the Joe Hill Song Book,  and announces a commemmorative concert M... Read more

  Jan Haaken talks with activists from Right 2 Survive including Sandra Comstock and Jeff Liddicoat, about the campaign for a village in SE Portland,  resistance to the enhanced surveillance district in Portland’s central eastside (also known as a homeless exclusion distri... Read more

  Larry Bowlden reviews Barbara Kingsolver's latest book. He reports that Kingsolver--scientist, conservationist, and supreme story teller--spins a tale of two families about to lose their shelters: one in the late 1800s, the other in  the present. Science, Darwin, the con... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Diane Feeley, coordinator of National Organization for Women, who has devoted her life to working in the labor movement and many of the social movements for democratic socialist revolution.  They discuss how to work in movements -- like Medicare for ... Read more

 In anticipation of the release next month of the drama "Welcome to Marwen,"  movie moles Frann and Jan  revisit the 2010 documentary "Marwencol," directed by Jeff Malmberg.  “Marwencol” is available  as a DVD at the Multnomah County Library.  Unable to afford therapy afte... Read more