PODCAST

Old Mole Variety Hour

KBOO Radio

KBOO Radio is a community-powered station in Portland Oregon

news & politics

All Episodes

Left and the Law and the National Guard

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/10/27

Portland is again in the national news now that an Oregon U.S. District Judge has been asked to remove her second restraining order blocking federal control of any National Guard troops in Portland. In a 2-1 ruling on October 20th, a panel from the 9th Circuit Court ...

en-us

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 27, 2025

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/10/27

Left & the Law & the National Guard: Portland is again in the national news now that an Oregon U.S. District Judge has been asked to remove her second restraining order blocking federal control of any National Guard troops in Portland. In a 2-1 ruling on October 20th...

en-us

DSA PDX BDS

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/10/27

Laurie Mercier speaks with Olivia Katbi, co-chair of the Portland Democratic Socialists of America, about the recent action by six Portland city councilors to launch a nationwide pledge of city councilors to investigate whether within city limits there is any manufac...

en-us

Indigenous Peoples' Day Episode of the Old Mole...

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/10/13

On this week's show, we bring you an Indigenous Peoples' Day Program produced by students with WSU Vancouver's Documentary Arts Initiative (DocArts), and featuring the following segments: Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIPs), "Man Camps," and Fossil Fuels: ...

en-us

CEI Hub: Portland’s Ticking Time Bomb

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/10/06

The Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub is a six-mile stretch of industrial land in northwest Portland between the Willamette River and Forest Park, where millions of gallons of toxic and explosive liquids are stored in hundred-year-old tanks atop unstable land ...

en-us

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 6, 2025

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/10/06

This episode is hosted by Jon Nelson and features these segments: CEI Hub: Portland’s Ticking Time Bomb: The Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub is a six-mile stretch of industrial land in northwest Portland between the Willamette River and Forest Park, where mil...

en-us

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 29, 2025

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/09/29

In this week's show, hosted by Desiree Hellegers, we present the following segments: Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It: We revisit a 2018 episode from the first Trump administration. Joe Clement talks with Shane Burley about fascist movements today and how th...

en-us

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 22, 2025

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

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...

en-us

Portland's Housing Crisis and Solutions

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

2025/09/22

In 2015, the City of Portland declared a housing emergency. Ten years later, more people in Portland are unhoused or precariously housed than ever. In this segment we talk with Sandra Comstock about how we got here and what we can do about it. Sandra Comstock (Ph.D...

en-us

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 ...

en-us

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...

en-us

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...

en-us

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 8, 2025

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

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...

en-us

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 1, 2025

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

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...

en-us

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...

en-us

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...

en-us

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 18, 2025

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

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...

en-us

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...

en-us

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 21, 2025

Old Mole Variety Hour ·

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...

en-us

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...

en-us

135 results

Old Mole Variety Hour

All Episodes

Similar Podcasts

Boletines RNE

RNE

BBC News

BBC World Service

برامج

مونت كارلو الدولية / MCD

Journal Afrique

RFI

要闻解说

RFI - 法国国际广播电台