Recent Audio

Advocates recently secured a significant victory in the ongoing fight against Zenith Energy. Last month, the Court of Appeals ruled that the Land Use Compatibility Statement (LUCS) issued by the City of Portland, which included a series of conditions applicable to Zenith... Read more

  Fighting Back on Campus and in the City: Frann Michel hosts this episode about fighting back against attacks on academic freedom and on grassroots democratic movements for a liveable city,  featuring these segments (follow the links for more information on the segment... Read more

  In August of this year, Jennifer Ruth came on to the Old Mole to explain how Title VI of the Civil Rights Act had become the primary legal instrument for repressing student protests and free speech on college campuses in the name of combating antisemitism.  In this up... Read more

  The Central City Task Force--packed with corporate interests and aligned with the Portland Metro Chamber (PMC, aka the Portland Business Association, PBA)--has continued arguing that taxes on the wealthy and corporations are bad, and continued attacking voter-approved... Read more

We will be joined this Monday by representatives from the Portland Gray Panthers. Among the topics we will explore is the lack of adequate low-income and affordable housing in Oregon, as well as current and upcoming projects of the organization.  Portland Gray Panthers ... Read more

In this final episode of the year, The Parsing Sound Crew experiments with The Prototype a forward-looking sonic blueprint for what’s to come.    Read more

  Graham and Robert Parish celebrate the holiday season with their usual first-Saturday three-hour program. This month, they're featuring mostly country holiday tunes from their individual “Swing ’n’ Country” archives.  The father-son duo will also be sharing some pers... Read more

On a personal and political level, 2025 has sucked ass, with worsening health after 2.5 years of long covid, the abrupt break up of my band after eight years, and a truly dangerous and infuriating dread surrounding what is currently "America." But, for various reasons, I... Read more

Lisa Neville of Cortland University in New York, and Matthew of KBOO’s Gremlin Time join us to discuss a great yet ambiguous Cary Grant film, The Bishop's Wife, an improved repeat from last week, and in keeping with the holiday spirit.  Read more

Main topics for this episode: COP30 falls short of expectations; interpreting the Xi-Trump conversation; the phony war with Venezuela Read more