Labor

Smart ALEC Oregon: KBOO Reporters Investigate ALEC Conference in Kansas City

Airs at: Thu, 09/04/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Smart ALEC Oregon

The sixth piece examines the ALEC conferences themselves in terms of what gets accomplished. Annual spring and winter conferences are events where legislators discuss potential model legislation with business leaders. The annual summer conference is more of a public re... Read more

Ed Pilkington Interview

Airs at: Tue, 09/02/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Between Us

Ed Pilkington is the Chief Correspondent in New York for London's "The Guardian" newspaper. He has done a substantial amount of reporting on the American Legislative Exchange Council, a free market organization that promotes the interests of big business over those of s... Read more

Kathi Weeks: debunking utopianism's critics

Airs at: Mon, 09/01/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement brings Kathi Weeks back on the show to talk about another chapter in her book The Problem With Work: marxism, feminism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries: utopianism. Kathi describes both realistic and deliberately unrealistic invocations of the uto... Read more

Raising Expectations, and Raising Hell: Jane McAlevey's book on rank-and-file unionism

Airs at: Mon, 09/01/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Old Moles Bill Resnick and Norm Diamond talk about union organizing by way of a mutual review of Jane McAlevey's book "Raising Expecations, and Raising Hell: my decade fighting for the labor movement". They consider the official and cynical meaning of labor day, but also... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour Labor Day Special 2014

Airs at: Mon, 09/01/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts this labor day special, which features conversations about reducing the work week and having real power in society as workers, challenging stagnant norms in union organizing, the problem with work and utopianism. We also hear clips of political humor in... Read more

Fifteen Now PDX

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

Justin Norton-Kerston and Shamus Cooke talk about the growing Fifteen Now movement in Portland (15NOWpdx) and the push for a raised minimum wage for City contracted workers, City workers, and a statewide $15 minimum wage ballot measure. Contact 15NOWpdx.org. Read more

Organizing Against Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge discusses the kind of movement needed to challenge inequality and save the environment. Noting that neoliberalism rationalizes plutocracy and the security apparatus needed to put down rebellions against the elites, Clayton draws on an essay by Sam Gin... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for 18 August 2014

Airs at: Mon, 08/18/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel hosts this episode, with segments on police violence in Honduras, Ferguson, and Palestine, and on a local non-profit nourishing bodies and communities in Portland. Musical selections: Sound of da Police by KRS One; Call the Cops by Rob Hustle ft. Liv; Tir... Read more

CLIMATE & JOBS - HOW DO WE MEET BOTH NEEDS?

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

WE FACE A CLIMATE CRISIS AND A JOBS CRISIS. IN PORTLAND, THE CLIMATE JOBS COMMITTEE PROPOSES A COMPREHENSIVE RESPONSE TO BOTH. THEIR FIRST DEMONSTRATION PROJECT, A SOLAR POWER INSTALLATION ON THE ROOF OF THE MUSICIANS' UNION HALL, WAS CELEBRATED AUGUST 17TH, AND LABOR RA... Read more

Musician's Union Goes Solar

Airs at: Mon, 08/11/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

The Musicians' Union has installed solar panels on its building, and to celebrate, they are throwing a party with music, food, and drink this Sunday, August 17, 3-7 pm, 325 NE 20th Ave. We hear Bill Resnick talking with Pat Oherron, a Portland surgeon and emergency room... Read more