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Old Mole Variety Hour for January 5, 2026

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2026/01/05

Criticizing Capitalism : Since the global financial crisis, and even more over the last five years, capitalism’s popularity has fallen, while the fortunes of the capitalist class have risen steeply. Polls show that a majority of people under forty, of any political af...

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Wassailing in the Age of Moral Monsters

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2025/12/22

In the run up to Homeless Persons' Memorial Day on December 21, Desiree Hellegers brings holiday reflections on the links between mass in immigrant detention, mass incarceration, endless war and death on the street. Universal housing, they argue, is no pie in the sky ...

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Left and the Law on ICE

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2025/12/22

Since returning to office this year, the Trump regime has mobilized the military, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Justice in carrying out mass deportations. Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operate on the frontlin...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for December 22, 2025

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2025/12/22

The Left and the Law on ICE: Since returning to office this year, the Trump regime has mobilized the military, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Justice in carrying out mass deportations. Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

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Finding Home

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2025/12/15

Sisters of the Road and the Welcome Home Coalition conducted research from 2023 until 2025 to learn from people who are currently homeless, or have been homeless in the past five years, what they want and need to stay housed. The study applied participatory action res...

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Academic Freedom Under Attack

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2025/12/08

In August of this year, Jennifer Ruth came on to the Old Mole to explain how Title VI of the Civil Rights Act had become the primary legal instrument for repressing student protests and free speech on college campuses in the name of combating antisemitism. In this up...

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Taxing and Investing

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2025/12/08

The Central City Task Force--packed with corporate interests and aligned with the Portland Metro Chamber (PMC, aka the Portland Business Association, PBA)--has continued arguing that taxes on the wealthy and corporations are bad, and continued attacking voter-approved...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for December 8, 2025

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2025/12/08

Fighting Back on Campus and in the City: Frann Michel hosts this episode about fighting back against attacks on academic freedom and on grassroots democratic movements for a liveable city, featuring these segments (follow the links for more information on the segment...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for December 1, 2025

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2025/12/01

While we’re told by politicians that the ideas of Karl Marx are foreign and have no place in this country, history proves otherwise. In Karl Marx in America (2025), Andrew Hartman shows that Marx and Marxism have had a significant influence on the United States, from ...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for November 24, 2025

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2025/11/24

Desiree Hellegers hosts this decolonial Thanksgiving week show, featuring an all Indigenous line up of musicians and the following segments: “We need to dismantle settler colonialism in the United States. What Israel is doing to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Ba...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for November 10, 2025

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2025/11/10

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Defending Tom Alter: Texas State University President Kelly Damphousse fired tenured Professor Tom Alter for engaging in protected political speech as a private citizen, in a...

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Defending Tom Alter

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2025/11/10

Texas State University President Kelly Damphousse fired tenured Professor Tom Alter for engaging in protected political speech as a private citizen, in a move that the Committee to Defend Tom Alter has described as a direct assault on academic freedom and the First Am...

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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 ...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for October 27, 2025

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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...

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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...

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

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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: ...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for October 6, 2025

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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...

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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 ...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for September 29, 2025

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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...

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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...

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