Patricia Kullberg

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole which features a re-broadcast from Against the Grain. What is the relationship between things held in Common — from rivers and forests, to traditions of sharing and mutual aid — and communism? How should we understand th... Read more

Right wing gun lovers are doubling down on their push to arm teachers. But as it turns out, gun-toting personnel in schools make violence worse. Our Well Read Red Sharon Grant reads from an article by teacher Nataliya Braginsky which was published June 7, 2022 in In These T... Read more

Back to School in Crisis: Claims that education is in crisis often mischaracterize the nature of the problems and of the solutions. The problems do not arise from remote learning, nor from the accurate teaching of US racial history, nor the respecting of children's gender i... Read more

The fight against construction of Enbridge Company's Line 3 in Minnesota, carrying tar sands oil from Canada through the Midwest, was the largest Indigenous-led pipeline resistance in North America after Standing Rock. Opposition from 2017-2021 brought thousands of people f... Read more

Lisa See’s historical novel, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, is a meticulously researched book on Chinese medicine in the 1500’s. It purports to be a record of a female doctor. Midwives, women who deliver newborns, are an essential part of medical treatment for women. “…since w... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Back to School (and Gun Violence): Right wing gun lovers are doubling down on their push to arm teachers. But as it turns out, gun-toting personnel in schools make violence wors... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Bomb: Last week was the 77th anniversary of the US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaski. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The explosion... Read more

Last week was the 77th anniversary of the US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaski. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more later died of radiation exposure. On... Read more

What do sanctions against Venezuela have to do with the Dakota Access Pipeline? In this 2022 talk for the Portland chapter of DSA, Dr. Nick Estes (citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe) lays out the geopolitical context of land-based indigenous challenges to the fossil fue... Read more

Larry Bowlden reviews Pomegranate, by Helen Elaine Lee, a rich book on so many levels. Written though the eyes of Ranita Atwater, a woman just released from four years of imprisonment for opioid possession, the book leaps forward to her assiduous efforts to regain parental ... Read more