Jon Nelson

Mole Desiree Hellegers and Dan Handelman of Portland Peace and Justice Works/Copwatch reflect on the remarkable life and legacy of Portland activist Yvonne Simmons, a teenage runaway and London street kid, who became a folksinger and international peace activist with the Wo... Read more

  Jon Nelson Hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes Old mole 10/31 Emerging left programs for fighting climate change: Bill Resnick interviews with Jeremy Brecher in part 3 of a 3 part series on the climate crisis. As climate change denial dies, corporate and l... Read more

Featuring Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations by The Bran Flakes, Daily Daze, Factcheckr, DJ Format, Lobsterdust, Bill McClintock, Pablo, PhonopsychographDISK, Plus-Tech Squeeze Box, Rik Rue, Carl Stone and Wax Audio. Read more

Featuring Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations by Ah!, Factcheckr, Bobby Martini, DJ Noize, Osymyso, Plunderphonic All Stars, QwertyMusique, Shadow Jazz Blunts, Carl Stone and Think Tank. Read more

The rapid, spectacular, entirely unexpected, self-organizing of workers at Amazon, Starbucks, and many other local franchises relying on low wage service workers inspired many observers of the labor scene to what they see as “spontaneous” uprisings as the route to a new lab... Read more

Often missing from the current public debates about assaults on reproductive rights are the workers who put themselves more and more at risk to provide abortion services. Patricia Kullberg speaks with filmmaker and Mole Jan Haaken and reproductive rights activist Sierra Rom... Read more

Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker pay tribute to Mike Davis, the Southern California based author, activist, urban theorist and historian who is in the late stages of terminal cancer. Davis is  the author of Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, In Praise of Barbarians, and more than... Read more

Jon Nelson hosts this Labor Day episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Putting the Movement Back into the Labor Movement: The rapid, spectacular, entirely unexpected, self-organizing of workers at Amazon, Starbucks, and many other local franchises ... Read more

Sue Miller’s 2020 novel, Monogamy, displays not only the crystalline writing we are used to from Miller, but an emotional depth that few writers every achieve. As usual, her topic is family life. Book Mole Larry Bowlden offers his take on this portrait of a marriage. Read more

Featuring Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations by The Avalanches, CCC, Chrispy,  John Oswald, People Like Us, DJ Remould, DJ Schmolli, DJ Signify, Den Sorte Skole, Tycoon Tosh, Susumu Yokota and DJ Zebra. Read more