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Old Mole Variety Hour for March 31, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Improving Taxation, Empowering Coalitions: This episode is hosted by Frann Michel and features these segments: Improving Taxation: Why do we need taxes and what can we do to fund the things we need?  In the season of tax deadlines and city budget debates, economist M... Read more

The Power of Coalition

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Laurie Mercier speaks with Alisha Chavez, vice-president of the Portland Association of Teachers (PAT), about the upcoming Workers Assembly, a free, in-person meeting to be held on April 12 to bring together labor and social movements to envision and build greater com... Read more

Police Unions in the Labor Movement

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Kristian Williams, member of AFSCME 88 and author of "Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America" as well as the forthcoming book "Policing the Progressive City" about the history of policing in Portland, Oregon from colonization to the uprising of 2020, discusses ... Read more

Kasama Farm

Airs at: Mon, 03/17/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This segment shares material from the Municipal Eco Resiliency Project. MERP interviews Jihelah & Leilani about Kasama Farm, which specializes in culturally significant crops for the Filipino community in Portland. The interview also explores topics such as farming dur... Read more

Federal Workers Under Attack

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Thomas Topi, an activist in the Federal Unionists Network, describes the brutal assault on federal jobs and services by Elon Musk, and his buddy Donald Trump.  Topi speculates about Trump's next steps and how unions and the working class can fight back. Read more

Black Workers in America

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  We revisit Laurie Mercier's 2020 interview with historian Joe Trotter about his important book, Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America (2020).  Joe William Trotter, Jr., is Professor of History and Social Justice and Founder and Director of the Cente... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 24, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This episode is hosted by Desiree Hellegers and features these segments: The Municipal Eco-Resiliency Project (MERP): We feature an interview with MERP organizer Yolotli X speaking about their personal journey from street kid to urban farmer and about the work of this ... Read more

Winning Together

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  The Portland Rising Committee of Portland Jobs with Justice, a labor-community organizing coalition, will be holding a workshop on lessons from the Minnesota Community-Labor Movement.  Tyler Fellini, Executive Director of Portland Jobs with Justice, joins Frann Michel... Read more

On the Legacy of PATCO 1981

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  In the aftermath of the midair crash over D.C on January 29, and Trump's racist response, Frann Michel looks back at the 1981 strike by PATCO, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization.  This commentary considers the problems faced then and now by Air Traf... Read more

Educators push OEA to join the call for humane PERS investments

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Join us as we speak with Laura Nitti, Phoenix Blickle, and Amanda Bowman-Mejia about their efforts to get OEA to join the coalition pushing for humane investing of their PERS and other Oregon treasury investments. Read more