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Fear of Marx

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from Why the US Press is Afraid of Marx (and Jeremy Corbyn) by Conor Lynch in Counterpunch.   In Marx’s analysis, widespread inequality and economic instability (and to a lesser degree environmental degradation) are inherent in the capitalist system, ... Read more

Blessing Workers & Rep. Keith Ellison on Free Trade in Colombia

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
A Multi-Faith Worker Blessing, sponsored by the Faith-Labor Committee of Portland Jobs with Justice, in commemoration of Pope Francis addressing the US Congress, features talks by low wage workers and faith leaders.  In the second half of the program, US Congressman Keit... Read more

CALLING OUT FREE TRADE: REMARKS BY REP. KEITH ELLISON IN BUENAVENTURA, COLOMBIA

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Rep.Keith Ellison (D-MN), a member of the Congressional Monitoring Group on Labor Rights in Colombia, Co-Chair of the Progressive Caucus, and member of the Black Caucus, went to Colombia to see firsthand the effects of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement and the defec... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 21, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/21/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this show featuring music about love and a better world by Michael Jackson. The segments of the show are these: Journalist Arun Gupta talks with Bill Resnick about gentrification and the role of teachers' unions in resisting it. Jan Haaken expla... Read more

Why Save the Postal Service

Airs at: Mon, 09/21/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Long time postal worker and activist Jamie Partridge talks with Bill Resnick about political threats to the postal service and why it's important to save it. People wishing to support the postal workers will be gathering between 7 and 9 am on Wednesday, September 23 at t... Read more

Changing Cities and Teachers' Unions

Airs at: Mon, 09/21/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Arun Gupta about how Portland, along with many other cities, is changing as it gentrifies the core and pushes poorer people out to the periphery. They also discuss the leading role that teachers' unions can have in organizing against these changes... Read more

Renters Emergency (press conference)

Airs at: Tue, 09/15/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
A Renters Emergency was declared by the Community Alliance of Tenants at a press conference and rally held Tuesday, September 15th at Penninsula Park in North Portland.  Across the street from the rally, attended by about two hundred people, were two empty apartment comp... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 14, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this membership drive episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour, with segments on Social Security, historical fiction and reproductive justice, and rights of workers in sexual services. Bill Resnick talks with Eric Laursen about Social Security. This versio... Read more

Decriminalizing Sex Work

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Red, an activist and representative with SWOP USA--Sex Workers Outreach Project. She is active with the Portland SWOP Chapter and also director of the new program in Portland, STROLL: Sex Traders Radical Outreach & Liberation Lobby.  They talk about... Read more

Girl in the River

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Patsy Kullberg (also an Old Mole), about her new novel, Girl in the River. The novel--a work of historical fiction--centers on the struggles of a fictional working class young woman, finding her way in the actual world of corruption, vice squads, an... Read more