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Old Mole Variety Hour for September 22, 2025

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2025/09/22

Focusing on Housing & Houselessness and hosted by Frann Michel, this episode includes these segments: Portland's Housing Crisis and Solutions: In 2015, the City of Portland declared a housing emergency. Ten years later, more people in Portland are unhoused or preca...

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Occupy Wall Street: An American Dream

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/09/15

In the Great Recession (2007-2009), Wall Street crashed the economy but got rewarded with billions of dollars in government bailouts, while millions of Americans—unemployed, homeless, desperate—had nowhere to go for help. When a small group of people responded ...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for September 15, 2025

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/09/15

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Mole, which includes the following segments: War and Climate Chaos: Laurie Mercier speaks with antiwar and climate activist Janet Weil, who discusses the Veterans for Peace Climate Crisis and Militarism Project. They also disc...

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War and Climate Chaos

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/09/15

Laurie Mercier speaks with antiwar and climate activist Janet Weil, who discusses the Veterans for Peace Climate Crisis and Militarism Project. They also discuss why environmental movements have avoided including militarism as an urgent concern for stemming climate catas...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for September 8, 2025

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2025/09/08

This episode focuses on solidarities, alliances, and connections. Hosted by Frann Michel, it features these segments: Critical Pedagogy Against Genocide: Jan Haaken talks with Portland-area teachers Stephen Siegel and Ellen R about the movement among educators to r...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for September 1, 2025

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2025/09/01

This Labor Day episode celebrates the labor of moles and other radio-makers. Hosted by Jon Nelson, it features these segments: KBOO Out Loud with Nathan Vandiver Laurie Mercier talks with KBOO Station manager Nathan Vandiver about the impacts of the Corporation for Pub...

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Civil Rights Offices Against Academic Freedom

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/08/25

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 grew out of the civil rights movement and its demands for legal protections at the federal level around practices of racial discrimination. Jan Haaken discusses with Jennifer Ruth how Title VI of the Civil Rights Act has become the primar...

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KBOO Strong

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/08/25

Laurie Mercier talks with Eugene Bradley, long-time KBOO volunteer and former board and finance committee member, about the recent Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) cuts and how KBOO has historically navigated similar financial challenges and persevered to su...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for August 18, 2025

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2025/08/18

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which features a re-broadcast from Against the Grain, titled Driving out Immigrants. The United States has often been celebrated as a nation of immigrants. Yet over the last century, the U.S. government expelled mor...

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Capitalism's Enduring Use for Borders

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/08/11

Ivan Drury Zarin explains how borders serve to undermine worker solidarity under capitalism. This talk was part of an event held last month by Solidarity on the Origins & Problems of the Anti-Migrant Panic. That panel discussion was the culmination of a reading and d...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for July 21, 2025

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2025/07/21

The authoritarianism of the Trump regime calls out for mass radical organizing, but with some exceptions, much of the left has not mounted a coherent response. Journalist Arun Gupta reflects on lessons from the last quarter century – from the Global Justice Movement t...

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Marxism and Degrowth

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/07/14

Joe Clement talks with local activist and anarchist scholar, Paul Messersmith-Glavin about degrowth broadly and particularly in the work of Japanese Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito. Paul's review of Saito's book "Marx in the Anthropocene: toward the idea of degrowth comm...

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Documentary The Israeli by Jordan Karr-Morse

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/07/07

Filmmaker Jordan Karr-Morse talks with Frann Michel about his feature documentary-in-progress, The Israeli, about the remarkable ideological journey of prominent Israeli-American activist and author Miko Peled, from Zionist to Palestinian Rights Activist. There will ...

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The Great Con of AI

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/06/30

Promoters of Artificial Intelligence claim that AI is going to usher in a new era of prosperity for all. Economist Mary Hart-Landsberg is skeptical. He argues that generative AI, like chatbots, have not only largely exhausted their potential, they pose numerous threats t...

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International Law and Lawlessness in the Middle East

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/06/30

In the leadup to a United Nations conference in New York City to discuss Palestine and a two-state solution, the Trump administration discouraged governments around the world from attending. The conference was set to take place on June 17-20 but was postponed in early Ju...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for June 30, 2025

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/06/30

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which features the following segments: International Law and Lawlessness in the Middle East: In the leadup to a United Nations conference in New York City to discuss Palestine and a two-state solution, the Trump a...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for June 23, 2025

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/06/23

This episode explores American warmaking, remembers Dan Handelman, and reviews recent nonfiction. Old Mole episodes are prerecorded the week before airing. Frann Michel hosts, and we hear these segments: Big Tech and Big War: On June 13th, the US Army swore in four si...

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Dan Handelman

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/06/23

On June 28, Portland activists will gather at the Clinton Street Theater to honor the life and work of the founding member of Portland Peace and Justice Works/Portland Copwatch, an indefatigable organizer on a host of interconnected issues – war/militarism, police acc...

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Truth Demands

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/06/23

Matt Witt reviews Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice, by lawyer, climate activist, and writer Abby Reyes. Twenty years after Abby Reyes's partner, Terence Unity Freitas, was assassinated in Colombia while working with the ind...

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No Straight Road

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/06/23

Patricia Kullberg reviews Rebecca Solnit's latest collection of essays, No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain. You can find the book at the Multnomah County Library. You can find more of Solnit's most recent writing at her site, Meditations in...

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