Frann Michel

  Frann Michel hosts this episode, which includes these segments:  Bill Resnick interviews Larry Kleinman, co-founder of PCUN, about current immigration issues; Movie Moles Joe Clement & Frann Michel discuss Antz (1998),  a cartoon for workers of all ages; Jan Haaken i... Read more

  (trigger warning: Woody Allen)  The cgi-animated adventure-comedy Antz (1998),  available from the Multnomah County Library, shows viewers of all ages that when you are confronted with the threat of a fascist takeover, the appropriate response is to organize the worke... Read more

  Frann Michel hosts this Memorial Day episode, which features music by Bob Marley, "War"; The Clash, "Washington Bullets"; and  Curtis Mayfield, "We Got to have Peace"; as well as these segments:  Jan Haaken talks with Jacob Reisberg about Standing Rock Legal Defense B... Read more

  In 1972 British writer David Widgery wrote an article about the bitter intensity of love in capitalism, about why and how love must be tamed and commodified in capitalist society. It was recently republished on the website of Red Pepper Magazine, and here Clayton Morg... Read more

Here are two featured opportunities for political engagment this week: 1. The Community Alliance of Tenants and Stable Homes for Oregon Families are providing transportation and other resources for those who register to join them in Salem on Wednesday to lobby state legis... Read more

Frann Michel hosts this episode and we hear: 1. Conn Hallinan and Bill Resnick consider whether Trump has a foreign policy and some of the grave dangers this president poses. 2. Huy Ong of OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon talks with the Old Mole's Desiree Hellegers abou... Read more

Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with Conn Hallinan about Trump’s foreign policy: Is there a pattern? Is he just an impulsive madman? Or are we looking at the throes of the wounded U.S. empire at the end of the American century? Conn Hallinan writes for  Foreign Policy In Foc... Read more

  Desiree Hellegers interviews Huy Ong, Executive Director of OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon, about their organizing work with Bus Riders Unite and about Trimet's 2018 budget proposal, which includes $11 million dollars for a new Rose Quarter transit police station a... Read more

  Frann Michel hosts this episode, which features these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Jaimes Valdez of NW SEED about renewable energy Frann shares the Old Mole Activist Calendar Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Colm Tóibín's novel Brooklyn Desiree Hellegers talks with... Read more