In Memory of PC Peri
On July 16, 2026, PC Peri (aka Phillip Craig Perry), a founder of the Flying Focus Video Collective and a Portland-based activist videograph...
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Remembering Chile's 9-11 and Folksinger Victor Jara
Living in the U.S., you'd never guess that some three decades before the twin towers fell, neoliberalism was ushered into Chile by U.S.-made...
Old Mole Variety Hour for September 14, 2026
Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Coming to Terms with Israel and Antisemitism: J...
Coming to Terms with Israel and Anti-Semitism
Coming to Terms with Israel and Anti-Semitism: Jan Haaken talks with Dr. Alissa Hochman about the struggle within the American Psychology As...
Old Mole Variety Hour for September 7, 2026
Jon Nelson hosts this Labor Day Mole with a rebroadcast from Against the Grain: The rise and fall of unemployment, our dependence on the mar...
The Ross Island Fix?
Earlier this year a group of anonymous investors calling themselves Heron Park surfaced a proposal to bury contaminated waste from the Willa...
No to Big Oil
In previous Left & the Law segments, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker have followed lawsuits against Big Oil that have been filed over the past...
Old Mole Variety Hour for August 31, 2026
Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes these segments: The Ross Island Fix? Earlier this year a group of anony...
Hope at Dusk: The Struggle for Public Goods in the Shadow of Fascism
Jan Haaken talks with Michael Fabricant about his new book, The Struggle for Public Goods in the Shadow of Fascism: Hope at Dusk. Fabricant...
Old Mole Variety Hour for August 24, 2026
This week's show, hosted by Desiree Hellegers, features the following segments: In the Shadow of Fascism: Jan Haaken talks with Michael Fabr...
Investing in Human Rights
Investing in Human Rights: Laurie Mercier speaks with Sally Joughin and Sami Ortoleva with the Oregon for Human Rights Coalition about the c...
Funding Preschool for All
Laurie Mercier speaks with Mary King, Co-Coordinator of Friends of Preschool for All, about the upcoming Multnomah County Board of Commissio...
Old Mole Variety Hour for August 17, 2026
Preschool for All, Higher Education, and Palestinian Film: this episode is hosted by Frann Michel and includes these segments: Funding Presc...
Milgram State: The Assault on Memory in Higher Education
Desiree Hellegers reflects on the links between the 81st anniversary of the U.S. nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the existent...
Movie Moles: All That's Left of You
Joe Clement and Jan Haaken discuss All That's Left of You (2026). Directed by and starring Cherien Dabis, it follows multiple generations of...
Old Mole Variety Hour for August 3, 2026
The United States spends as much on healthcare as almost half the world combined, yet so many Americans are unhealthy. Would universal healt...
Old Mole Variety Hour for July 27, 2026
This episode looks at right-wing organizations and resistance to them. Hosted by Frann Michel, it includes Jacob Hoopes on Fighting for Peac...
The ADL and the Racial State
Laurie Mercier speaks with Emmaia Gelman, who is founding director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, which examines the po...
Jacob Hoopes on Fighting for Peace
The federal government has met protests against ICE with violence and draconian legal charges. Portlander Jacob Hoopes was recently incarcer...
Struggle for Higher Education: WSU Vancouver
As Desiree Hellegers noted on last week's Old Mole, the Washington State legislature mandated a $3.3 million cut to the University system, b...