Joe Clement shares commentary and news on the political significance of
libraries, examining the material context of social attacks on them and the
utopian potential of their sharing ethos. We hear audio from Mariame
Kaba on the podcast Death Panel speaking to how librarie...
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Joe Clement reports on the struggle for a living wage at Fort Vancouver
Regional Libraries (FVRL), connecting their issues to other library systems
in the area and beyond. Show your support today today by signing the FVRL
workers' petition.
In the report, Joe reads from...
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Joe Clement hosts this Hot Labor Summer episode of the Old Mole.
Drug Decriminalization: Bill Resnick and Tera Hurst discuss the growing pains
in Oregon's implementation of the first in the nation decriminalization of
all illicit drugs including marijuana, methamphetamin...
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Class Struggle Unionism: Here is a clip from the Class Struggle Unionism
panel at the Labor Notes conference in Chicago 6/17-19. Joe Burns describes
the principles of Class Struggle Unionism and what distinguishes the class
struggle perspective from the business unions and ...
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Movie Moles Joe Clement and local wobbly Morgan Miller review the 1979
documentary "Wobblies". (Re-released earlier this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ruK6IQLWc) and remastered by the Museum of
Modern Art, Wobblies features interviews with members of the Industrial ...
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Bill Resnick and Tera Hurst discuss the growing pains in Oregon's
implementation of the first in the nation decriminalization of all illicit
drugs including marijuana, methamphetamine and illicit painkillers and
stimulants. Recently the Oregon Health Authority administering...
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Old Mole Joe Clement talks with labor activist-educator Eric
Dirnbach about Strike-tober, the mass quittings and staff shortages
affecting the American economy, and whether we're seeing what former
Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has called "a disorganized general strike". ...
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Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear:
Authoritarianism and Global Roasting: Bill Resnick interviews Max Elbaum on
the two existential threats facing humanity. They discuss how to defeat both,
building the broadest of lefts, including segments of the Democratic Party
...
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