Labor

Old Mole Variety Hour 26 August 2013

Airs at: Tue, 08/27/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which addresses popular deceptions and misconceptions about Social Security, money in politics, safety and policing, and climate change.Bill Resnick talks with Max Richtman about Social SecurityClayton Morgareidge reads from... Read more

Max Richtman on defending and extending Social Security

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Max Richtman, president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare , who clarifies that Social Security is an earned benefit, and the program is not broke or breaking. The current program can continue paying full benefits ... Read more

City Workers Rally Against Privatization (raw audio)

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

City Workers rallied on August 14th against privatization and for a fair union contract. The District Council of Trade Unions, representing laborers, office workers, electricians, painters, operating engineers, plumbers, and machinists, turned out several hundred member... Read more

News You're Not Supposed to Know

Airs at: Thu, 08/15/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Presswatch

Presswatch

Airs at: Fri, 08/16/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Presswatch

Host Theresa Mitchell discuss abortion, abortion protesting and aborthion rights Read more

Jeff Shantz on Especifismo and Anarchist Organizing

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement talks with Jeff Shantz about anarchist organizing, particularly Especifismo in South America. He explains the origins of anarchist organizing and "platformism", relating those to innovations brought by the especifista, namely social insertion. Jeff Shantz is ... Read more

ASOTRECOL Hits Two Year Mark in Their Huelga; Injured Colombian GM Workers Fight for Justice

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

At the beginning of August the Colombian autoworkers organized as ASOTRECOL, hurt on the job and then illegally kicked to the curb by General Motors, passed the two year mark in their continuous tent occupation in front of the US embassy in Bogotá. We called UAW retiree ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 22, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour features Bill Resnick interviewing Chris Toensing about the ouster of the Morsi government in Egypt; Joe Clement talking with Adam and Daisy about starting a workers' cooperative pub in Portland; Larry Bo... Read more

Yasmin Nair on ENDA

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and its limits. They discuss changes in the current version of the law and its assumptions about the innate nature of sexual identity and the kinds of trans* presentation it would protect. N... Read more

Putting the Pub in Public and the Public in the Pub: A Worker-Controlled Venture

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement discusses a movie mole review of the documentary Shift Change on worker-owned cooperatives, and talks with Adam and Daisy about their plans for a collectively-owned and -run pub in Portland.For more information or to make suggestions, attend a potluck in Laur... Read more