Labor

Fight For $15 NOW

Airs at: Mon, 05/11/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Justin Kertson-Norton about the Fight for $15 movement. They consider the progress they've made in the national and local conversation around the minimum wage, and Bill wonders whether a more radical vision of worker control on the job and in the ... Read more

Oregon Public Employee Retirement System

Airs at: Tue, 05/12/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Between Us

The Oregon Supreme Court recently overturned the efforts of the Oregon Legislature to correct some of the funding problems as they affect PERS. I interviewed more than a half-dozen legislators in 2014 about what they thought about the PERS funding issue and how they wou... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 27, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 04/27/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Alan Wieder hosts this episode of the Old Mole and we hear: Jan Haaken and Todd Sloan talk about psychology and perceptions of class and inequality. Bill Resnick finishes his conversation Michael Armstrong of Portland' Bureau of Planning and Sustainability with... Read more

The Meaning of May Day in 2015

Airs at: Mon, 04/27/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel and Hyung Nam discuss the origins of May Day in the Chicago Riot of 1886, its enduring if transformed significance today, and local actions taking place on May Day (May 1st) 2015. Read more

Abolish Slavery, Abolish Property, Abolish Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 04/27/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Drawing from Edward Baptist's book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (available as a book or ebook at the Multnomah County Library), Clayton Morgareidge argues that the Civil War and the 14th Amendment abolishing slavery constitu... Read more

PDX Renters v Fox Mgmt Co.

Airs at: Mon, 04/20/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement interviews an organizer with The Portland Solidarity Network about their work and a recent tenant-led campaign against Fox Property Management. They discuss some of the barriers to conventional legal recourse faced by low-income renters and the frightening p... Read more

Crummy Jobs

Airs at: Mon, 04/13/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement reads an article by Dylan Matthews titled "Is The Future Of America A Crummy Service Job Stamping On A Human Face, Forever?" He considers how Rand Paul and Hillary Clinton both approach the economy in much the same way: make sure that there's a ready supply o... Read more

The "Sharing" Economy: Not Really Sharing

Airs at: Mon, 03/30/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

They call Airbnb and Uber parts of the "Sharing Economy", but they are only devices for the well-off to get cheap convenient work out of the economically desperate. What is real sharing? This article by Sam Bliss on the Grist.org website, read here by Patricia Kuhlberg, ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 23, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 03/23/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Iven Hale hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick and Robert Naimon talk about Israel and Palestine Desiree Hellegers talks with Dan Serres about the environmental and safety risks of oil-by-train facilities Joe Clement reads a tongue-in-cheeck commentary about the P... Read more

The Thin Blue Line of Entitlement

Airs at: Mon, 03/23/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement reads an article by Ken White titled "The Thin Blue Line of Entitlement". It is a tongue and cheek report about Portland Police Union President, Daryl Wilson, and his response to Diana Scott's recent ruling that called out Portland Police officers. Read more