Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

“I got involved in climate change organizing in particular because it seemed to me it was the overwhelming issue facing the world right now.” In this 2017 interview, Lowen Berman (1942-2024), who came of age as a Jewish labor organizer involved in Civil Rights organizing... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Genocide Gentry: The Genocide Gentry Project exposes the executives and board members of major weapons companies who also hold prestigious and powerful positions at museums, ... Read more

  On this episode, the moles celebrate interspecies solidarity by rebroadcasting an interview with Leigh Claire La Berge about her 2023 book, Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (Duke UP). Cats and Marxism: Should Marxism be rooted in inter-species liberation? Or is it a... Read more

  Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) Mole Julian Ankney hosts this Indigenous People’s Day show which features the following segments: Indigenous Food Sovereignty In September, WSU Vancouver broke ground on two new campus gardens–one a student community garden, the other centering In... 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 ... Read more

In September, WSU Vancouver broke ground on two new campus gardens–one a student community garden, the other centering Indigenous Traditional Ecological Cultural Knowledge. Julian Ankney speaks with Lakota-Cheyenne activist Roben White about the role of the gardens in re... Read more

In a continuation of the “Fish Wars” of the 1960s and 70s, a 1982 federal sting operation scapegoated and criminalized Columbia fisher people for diminishing salmon runs. This segment, which originally aired in May 2023, we feature commentary from Wanapum fishing rights ... Read more

  This episode about events in Palestine is hosted by Jon Nelson and includes segments from the Old Mole archive as well as news about an upcoming film screening.   Juan Cole on Gaza in 2014 During Israel's 2014 war on Gaza, Laurie Mercier talked with historian and M... Read more

  Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as bastions of liberal democracy even as Israel continues to bomb schools in Gaza in its genocidal war.  Jan Haaken talks with Maya Wind about her new book, "Towers of Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian... Read more

  This episode is hosted by Frann Michel and features these segments:   How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as bastions of liberal democracy even as Israel continues to bomb schools in Gaza in its genocida... Read more