Labor

David Weiman on Mass Incarceration

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with economist David Weiman about the political forces encouraging the growth and maintaining of prisons and punitive policing in the USA. They consider not only media influence and legislators desire to keep jobs in their areas but also the fear-enha... Read more

Jane McAlevey on Making Unions Matter Again

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2012 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Host Cecil Prescod interviews labor activist Jane McAlevey about the state of the labor movement and how to make unions matter again. McAlevey has been an organizer in the labor and environmental justice movements for the last twenty years. She is a PhD candidate at CUN... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 18th 2013

Airs at: Mon, 02/18/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Iven Hale hosts this President's Day episode. Please note that an unforseen glitch in the recording clipped the first 30 or so seconds from the beginning. Once it can be recovered it will be re-inserted. All that was lost was the intro-music and some of Iven's opening ... Read more

Movie Mole: The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

Airs at: Mon, 02/18/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement talks with Jason Read about psychoanalytic philosopher Slavoj Zizek and Sophie Fiennes philosophical documentary: The Pervert's Guide to Ideology. This is the second film Zizek and Fiennes have made together, the first being The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. Bot... Read more

City Workers Rally Against Cuts (RAW AUDIO)

Airs at: Tue, 02/05/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

February 5 DCTU rally Noon in front of Portland building Read more

Who Bombed Judi Bari?

Airs at: Mon, 02/11/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken talks with Mary Liz Thomson, the director of Who Bombed Judi Bari?. Judi Bari was an environmental activist, labor organizer and feminist who helped to bridge crucial gaps between how timber workers and radical environmentalists understood each other. She also... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 11th 2013

Airs at: Tue, 02/12/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick complete his conversation with Larry Kleinman about immigration reform. Jan Haaken talks with Mary-Liz Thomson, the director of "Who Bombed Judi Bari?" Joe Clement talks with Kristian Williams about community a... Read more

Larry Kleinman on Immigration Reform Part 2

Airs at: Tue, 02/12/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Larry Kleinman, Secretary-Tresurer of PCUN, a union for all Oregon's farmworkers. They discuss the potential impact of different kinds of immigration reform. This is the second of a two-part interview. The first can be found here. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 02/04/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts this episode of the Mole, dealing with immigration reform; the meaning of life with and without work; the short-comings of "business-labor unions;" seeing African through African lenses here in Portland; and a new novel about acting, and not acting, ... Read more

Fred Meyer and the Labor Movement

Airs at: Mon, 02/04/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Grocery workers at Fred Meyer are considering whether to go on strike. In this commentary, Old Mole Joe Clement looks at what business-labor unions like the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) are, and are not, providing for workers, drawing on a piece by Natasha... Read more