Laurie Mercier speaks with Lane Windham, who worked for twenty years in the
labor movement and is now Associate Director of Georgetown University's
Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, about her book
Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s...
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Bill Resnick and Aaron Brenner discuss some lessons from the past and present
for reviving labor militancy and revolts from below. Aaron Brenner is a labor
historian and organizer for the Food and Commercial Workers Union. They
discuss the importance of history, and labor h...
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Desiree Hellegers interviews Portland activists Sam and Alana about
OccupyICEPDX and the late Dani Henri Sommerville, also known as Dani Summers,
and Dani Som, a twenty year old musician/songwriter, with OccupyICE/PDX,
who died in February. Scroll down for a transcript of ...
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Laurie Mercier hosts this episode of the Old Mole and we hear about:
Dismantling the Police: Bill Resnick and Kristian Williams continue their
discussion of the militarization of police and the rise of the antifas and
alt right.
Community Celebrates Swearing-in of JoAnn...
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In the second of a three part interview, Bill Resnick and Kristian Williams
continue their discussion about how to relate to the police, neo-fascists,
and the antifas, particularly how to confront the police, limit their
authority, and dismantle them. Most importantly they ...
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Laurie Mercier speaks to James Phillips about what the mainstream corporate
media has been missing in its narrative about Central America by examining
the U.S. role behind protests in Nicaragua and migrants fleeing Honduras.
Phillips recently retired as Affiliate Professor ...
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Field mole Desiree Hellegers talks with activists and brings audio excerpts
from Wednesday night's celebration of JoAnn Hardesty's swearing in to the
Portland City Council.
Photo by Kendall Kendall
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Laurie Mercier hosts this episode and we hear these segments:
Bill Resnick talks with Johanna Bozuma about making PG&E in CA a
publically-owned and responsibly-run utility.
Laurie talks with Margot Black of Portland Tenants’ United and with Mercy
Strongheart with the...
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Bill Resnick interviews Johanna Bozuwa, Research Associate at the Democracy
Collaborative, about how public ownership of electric utilities can help
avert climate catastrophe and promote energy democracy, and how the
California wildfires and PG&E’s culpability have incre...
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Laurie Mercier talks with Margot Black of Portland Tenants’ United and
with Mercy Strongheart of the Wimby Tenants Union about the Nov. 26th press
conference at Wimbledon Square and Gardens to demand a rent abatement
for ongoing livability issues, and about organizing fo...
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