Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: How to Grow a Movement for Peace in the Middle East: Students at Portland State university are among the thousands of campus activists across the country mobilizing against US c... Read more

A movement is growing to vote in Democratic primaries for “none of the above” or “uncommitted” as a strategy to put Joe Biden on notice that voters may abandon him next fall if he persists with his unconditional support for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. This strategy, if ... Read more

“We need to dismantle settler colonialism in the United States. What Israel is doing to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank shows the world that settler colonialism only speaks the language of violence,” observes Diné (Navajo) Prof. Melanie Yazzie, in excerpts from a wid... Read more

  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments:   The Contradictions of Immigration, Part Two: How is it that 1,000,000 undocumented immigrants from across the world entered the U.S. each year from starting in 2019 and filtered acr... Read more

How is it that 1,000,000 undocumented immigrants from across the world entered the U.S. each year from starting in 2019 and filtered across the country, found work, and built stable lives in stable communities? That despite the increase in border police and physical barrier... Read more

For two decades, Palestinian rights activists have called for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. The aim of the BDS movement is to pressure Western companies and governments to stop funding and supporting Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and Isr... Read more

In 1980, in a stunning act of solidarity with progressive forces both in the U.S. and Central America, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, the ILWU, refused to load military supplies being shipped from the US government to El Salvador’s dictatorship. Their refu... Read more

For the last eight years, including the Trump’s years, the U.S Congress has been increasing appropriations for “Border Protection,” and still every year, on average, over one million undocumented people crossed into this country, getting work and settling down. How and why ... Read more

  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, beginning with a story from Portland's May Day past, followed by these segments: Campus Protest: For two decades, Palestinian rights activists have called for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. The aim of th... Read more

  In this Earth Day segment of "Field Notes,” Sophie Smith speaks with Karen Coulter, director and co-founder of the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project (BMBP). The discussion explores the critical ecological role of the mature and old growth forests on public lands to the... Read more