Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Laurie Mercier speaks to Roberto J. González, a professor of anthropology at San José State University, about how Silicon Valley is transforming the Military-Industrial Complex. Some of Gonzalez’s recent books include American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the ... Read more

  Gil Scott-Heron, Karen Silkwood, and the 1979 No Nukes Album: For those who came of age in the 1970s and 80s, political awakening to the dangers of nuclear power came as much via pop culture as it did from watching the nightly news. The 1979 triple album No Nukes: The... Read more

Frann Michel hosts this episode, with these segments: Big Tech and Big War: Laurie Mercier speaks to Roberto J. González, a professor of anthropology at San José State University, about how Silicon Valley is transforming the Military-Industrial Complex. Some of Gonzalez’s... Read more

Our Well-Read Red, Patricia Kullberg, reads excerpts from an article by Michael Harriot in which he argues that the real Martin Luther King Jr. made White people uncomfortable and intended to do so. And if MLK were not white-washed, White folks wouldn’t like him today. T... Read more

Joe Birdsong is a man perpetually out of place. He’s at once too Black and not Black enough. His skin is too dark and his hair too kinky. But he is also teased for talking like a White man. He’s at once color blind and acutely aware of color in a way that penetrates to h... Read more

  Public domain image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Luther_King,_Jr_.svg Patricia Kullberg hosts this Martin Luther King Day episode of the Old Mole, featuring the following segments: Whites Would Not Like the Real MLK: Our Well-Read Red, Patricia Kull... Read more

In December 2023, a team of civil rights lawyers, including Albies, Stark & Guerriero, LLC, Oregon Law Center and Legal Aid Services of Oregon brought a suit against the City of Portland, Emanuel Hospital, and Prosper Portland on behalf of Emanuel Displaced Persons Assoc... Read more

The Palestine Exception, a Portland-based documentary film directed by PSU faculty Jan Haaken and Jennifer Ruth, will screen at Cinema 21 on Jan. 26. As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around cri... Read more

Desiree Hellegers hosts this episode of The Old Mole Variety Hour, which features Criminalizing Solidarity: Historian Rachel Ida Buff talks with Frann Michel about connections between attacks on encampments in support of Palestine and encampments of houseless people, ... Read more

Eco-Disasters in Japanese Film. Japan has rich traditions of filmmaking and of approaching films as commentary on daily life. But Japanese cinema also offers rich commentary on ecological crises. Jan Haaken talks with University of Oregon professor Rachel DiNitto about h... Read more