Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Norm Diamond revisits a dystopian novel published 35 years ago and set in our year 2020. Would we have acted any differently if we’d taken the author’s warnings seriously? The novel is Goodman 2020 by Fred Pfeil, an Oregonian for some of the time he was writing it. This wil... Read more

Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Insurgency and its Future: Mole bill Resnick talks to Emory Mort Portland activist and our street historian, who has been to over 50 BLM Protests over the last two months, and you c... Read more

Jan Haaken interviews Layel Camargo an indigenous descendant of the Yaqui and Mayo tribes from the Sonoran Desert. Layel Camargo is a transgender & gender non conforming person who has been involved with performance art in both theater and video since 2008,. Their recent ef... Read more

Desiree Hellegers talks with Pedro Anglada Cordero and Susan Anglada Bartley, members of Portland's Black Lives Matter resistance community, about how they turned a phone call from Mayor Ted Wheeler's reelection campaign headquarters into a youtube video calling for Wheeler... Read more

  Denise Morris Hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes:   The Occupation of Portland: Bill Resnick will be talking to Emory Mort, a people's historian in the streets of Portland, attending over 50 demonstrations. Emory reports on the Black Lives Matter George F... Read more

Bill Resnick will be talking to Emory Mort, a people's historian in the streets of Portland, attending over 50 demonstrations. Emory reports on the Black Lives Matter George Floyd insurgency in Portland and its opposition to the Portland police and more recently Federal tr... Read more

Desiree Hellegers talks with Sarah Chivers, an adjunct professor of Sociology at several universities in the Portland/Vancouver metropolitan area. They discuss the challenges that adjuncts in Oregon face with the approach of Fall semester, and how being a primary caregiver ... Read more

  Frann Michel hosts this episode, which features these segments: COVID 19 and the next pandemic:   Bill Resnick interviews Mike Friedman, a microbiologist and epidemiologist, on COVID 19 and what would be needed in a public health system that could save the country. Book... Read more

  Bill Resnick interviews Mike Friedman, a microbiologist and epidemiologist, on COVID-19 and what would be needed in a public health system that could save the country. Dr. Michael Friedman researches, writes, and teaches at the University of Antigua & Barbuda.  He talked... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg reads Larry Bowlden’s review of The Vanishing Half  by Brit Bennett. The novel is about twin African American girls who are pale as any white person. One marries a man who is described as blue-black, the other decides to pass as white. A story of race, ... Read more