Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Desiree Hellegers talks with Barbara Ford about climate change and radical hope. Winston Flags Smith sings The World is on Fire. Read more

    Frann Michel hosts this episode, with these segments: Schools and the Pandemic: Bill Resnick interviews Portland Association of Teachers President Elizabeth Thiel about reopening of schools. Street Journalism: Desiree Hellegers interviews Lisa Loving about her street ... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Portland Association of Teachers President Elizabeth Thiel about reopening of schools. Read more

Desiree Hellegers interviews Lisa Loving about her street journalism training for covering protests and more. She is the author of Street Journlism: Understand and Report the News in Your Community. Read more

Patricia Kullberg reads a review by Larry Bowlden of two historical novels by Marlowe Benn, Passing Fancies and Relative Fortunes. Read more

  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes the following segments: Racism—a Public Health Crisis: Patricia Kullberg speaks with Leslie Gregory, a local health practitioner and activist who is at the forefront of the campaign to get racism declared a ... Read more

Patricia Kullberg speaks with Leslie Gregory, a local health practitioner and activist who is at the forefront of the campaign to get racism declared a public health crisis. Gregory is the founder and director of the local non-profit Right to Health, whose vision is to to c... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Marianne Lavelle, a journalist who has the national politics beat on the publication Inside Climate News, an important web source for those concerned with climate change and preventing climate cataclysm and mass death.  They discuss: (a) Democratic P... Read more

Norm Diamond and Joe Clement talk about worker response to threatened staff and service cuts in the Multnomah County library system. They note that the library has no shortage of funds and that both workers and the community will be severely affected. In particular they foc... Read more

  Densie Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes: Will He Go? Bill Resnick interviews Lawrence Douglas, Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College about his book Will He Go?  Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020. Dougl... Read more