Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  This is the 35th year of the Cascade Festival of African Films hosted by Portland Community College with screenings and discussions scheduled Thursday through Saturday throughout the month of February.  Jan Haaken talks with the internationally acclaimed Senegalese fi... Read more

  Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode features segments on African films, on public schools in the the making of Black masculinity, and more.   On the Legacy of PATCO 1981 In the aftermath of the midair crash over D.C on January 29, and Trump's racist response, Frann ... Read more

  In the aftermath of the midair crash over D.C on January 29, and Trump's racist response, Frann Michel looks back at the 1981 strike by PATCO, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization.  This commentary considers the problems faced then and now by Air Traf... Read more

  The ACLU of Oregon, in partnership with Don’t Shoot PDX, an arts and education organization that promotes social justice and civic participation, have submitted three public records requests to the City of Portland, the Oregon Department of Justice (ODOJ), and the Fed... Read more

Laurie Mercier interviews Desiree Hellegers about  her web series, a surreal and hallucinogenic monologue set entirely inside their mind during a thirty-day silent Buddhist retreat in the woods of British Columbia during the 2005 winter holiday. While outwardly appearing... Read more

  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Defending the Resistors: On January 23, 2025, Salem Younes, a first-generation Palestinian-American college student, and K Anton, a Lebanese-American human rights activist, were fou... Read more

  Frann Michel recommends the documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, directed by Belgian media artist Johan Grimonprez, and available streaming through kanopy via the Multnomah County Library. The film opens with, and returns to, the moment in February 1961 when singer... Read more

On January 23, 2025, Salem Younes, a first-generation Palestinian-American college student, and K Anton, a Lebanese-American human rights activist, were found not guilty by a unanimous trial jury in Lane County Circuit Court in Eugene, Oregon. The two activists faced cha... Read more

Nimiipuu Mole, creative writer, and Director of Native American Programs at Washington State University Vancouver, Julian Ankney reads poems by Natalie Diaz, Mojave, and more. Read more

  Laurie Mercier speaks to Roberto J. González, a professor of anthropology at San José State University, about how Silicon Valley is transforming the Military-Industrial Complex. Some of Gonzalez’s recent books include American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the ... Read more