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Health Care for All Oregon

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/04/14

Oregon is poised to become the first state in the union to enact a single payer health care plan. In June of this year, the Universal Health Plan Governance Board for the State of Oregon will present for public input the first draft of its comprehensive plan. The fina...

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Rise for Climate Justice

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/04/14

This Saturday afternoon, April 19th, a climate justice rally will be held from 3-5 pm at the Elizabeth Caruthers Park in Portland. The theme of the rally is local and global: From the US to the Philippines: Defend Lands and Land Defenders. Jan Haaken talks with two or...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for April 14, 2025

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2025/04/14

Health, care for all or for some? Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode of the Old Mole includes these segments: Healthcare for ALL Oregon: Oregon is poised to become the first state in the union to enact a single payer health care plan. In June of this year, the Uni...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for April 7, 2025

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2025/04/07

Rule of the billionaires: Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast of a show from Against the Grain. The rich have not been so powerful and mind-bogglingly wealthy since the Gilded Age of the late 19th century. Yet their grip on society ha...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for March 31, 2025

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2025/03/31

Improving Taxation, Empowering Coalitions: This episode is hosted by Frann Michel and features these segments: Improving Taxation: Economist Mary King explains the need for taxes and the inequities of current property taxes in Oregon, and she proposes several ways ...

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Growing up Undocumented

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2025/03/24

Patricia Kullberg speaks with Luisa Martinez about growing up undocumented in Florida and the deprivation and shame entailed in living as an impoverished Latina without papers. She relates how encountering the ideas of socialism offered her a new perspective on how imper...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for March 24, 2025

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2025/03/24

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments on immigration: Growing up Undocumented: Patricia Kullberg speaks with Luisa Martinez about growing up undocumented in Florida and the deprivation and shame entailed in living...

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El Norte

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/03/24

Movie Moles Laurie Mercier and Frann Michel discuss the 1983 film El Norte. Directed and co-written by Gregory Nava, El Norte is an award winning, independent epic US film, notable for centering the experiences of two indigenous Mayan migrants from Guatemala as they move...

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Not a Nation of Immigrants

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/03/24

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz argues that migrants to the US, largely from the global south, are Americanized in ways that obscure the settler-colonialism that this country was founded on and that we have yet to reckon with. Our Well Read Red, Patricia Kullberg reads excerpts fro...

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Kasama Farm

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/03/17

This segment shares material from the Municipal Eco Resiliency Project. MERP interviews Jihelah & Leilani about Kasama Farm, which specializes in culturally significant crops for the Filipino community in Portland. The interview also explores topics such as farming dur...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for March 17, 2025

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2025/03/17

Hosted by Desiree Hellegers, this episode features segments on Teaching Palestine, Food Justice, Health and Trans Fiction: Teaching Palestine: In their Introduction to Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices, the editors begin by noting the silencing they routine...

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Teaching Palestine

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/03/17

In their Introduction to Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices, the editors begin by noting the silencing they routinely encounter: "Israel and Palestine is just too complicated to teach," both liberal and conservative commentators often caution. The book unfol...

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What's Cuckoo?

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/03/17

Frann Michel considers some ideas of the new head of HHS, and recommends the horror novels Manhunt (2022) and Cuckoo (2024) by trans writer Gretchen Felker-Martin. Fair use image: cover of Gretchen Felker-Martin's novel Cuckoo. Image of a bird's nest seen from ab...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for March 10, 2025

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2025/03/10

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast of a show from Against the Grain. Our world is replete with problems, calling out for repair and change. Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have solutions at the ready – tech fixes and innovation...

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Excerpts from Reading by Said Shaiye at Washington...

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/02/24

We feature excerpts from a February 2025 reading at Washington State University. Said Shaiye is an Autistic + ADHD (AuHD) Somali Writer, Photographer & Filmmaker in Minneapolis. He is a 2024 MacDowell Fellow & was awarded a 2024 MN State Arts Education Grant to lead a BIPO...

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Winning Together

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/02/24

The Portland Rising Committee of Portland Jobs with Justice, a labor-community organizing coalition, will be holding a workshop on lessons from the Minnesota Community-Labor Movement. Tyler Fellini, Executive Director of Portland Jobs with Justice, joins Frann Michel to...

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Yolotli X on the Municipal Eco Resiliency Project

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/02/24

This segment shares material from the Municipal Eco Resiliency Project. Yolotli X Interview about MERP An interview of the founder of MERP (Municipal Eco Resiliency Movement), Yolotli X. They discuss their journey from street kid to direct actionist to urban farmer. They...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for February 24, 2024

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2025/02/24

This episode is hosted by Desiree Hellegers and features these segments: The Municipal Eco-Resiliency Project (MERP): We feature an interview with MERP organizer Yolotli X speaking about their personal journey from street kid to urban farmer and about the work of this an...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for February 17, 2025

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/02/17

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast from Against the Grain. Black parents worry about racism’s impact on their children. Jennifer C. Nash is interested in both the nature of racialized anxiety and the way it’s rendered visible to t...

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On the Legacy of PATCO 1981

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/02/10

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 Traffic...

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