Labor

Common Sense and Women of Color in Leadership Roles

Airs at: Wed, 09/09/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

Common Sense Hosted by Kayse Jama and Grassia Melendez. Today, Kayse (right) and Grassia (Left) invite four local Women of Color in to discuss what leadership roles Women can play in building Social Justice Movements. Present in the studio today were: Jeri Williams Li... Read more

Old Mole on Labor Day

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Old Mole Bill Resnick offers a Labor Day message in honor of those who do the work. Read more

An Update on the State of our LGBTQ Union

Airs at: Tue, 09/08/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Out Loud

Carla interviews Kate Kendelle, Executive Director for the National Lesbian Center Rights (nclrights.org), and Jeana Frazzini, Executive Director for Basic Rights Oregon (basicrights.org), about the State of the LGBTQ Union, among other political topics. Kate will be in Por... Read more

Cooperating Co-ops in Cleveland

Airs at: Mon, 08/31/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Building on the model of the Mondragón region of Spain, a movement for a system of worker-owned co-ops is growing in Cleveland, Ohio. Ted Howard, director of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the democ... Read more

The Slave Next Door; Part 2 : An Oregon Report

Airs at: Thu, 08/27/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: A Deeper Look

Learn about Human Trafficking and Slavery in Oregon from the voices of those who's jobs have them confront this modern day horror every day. Host Linda Olson-Osterlund interviewed Deputy Kieth Bickford chair of the Oregon Human Trafficking Taskforce, the organization tapped... Read more

The Slave Next Door; Part 1: Interview with the author Kevin Bales

Airs at: Wed, 08/26/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: A Deeper Look

Author and anti-slavery activist Kevin Bales is interviewed by host Linda Olson-Osterlund about his new book The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today, co-authored with historian Ron Soodalter. Bales' earlier book on modern slavery, Disposable Peop... Read more

A RADICAL VISION FOR LABOR

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

Host Jamie Partridge interviews labor photojournalist David Bacon, a veteran union organizer, whose latest book is "Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants". Bacon argues that the key to building power for working people are the str... Read more

A call to fill Oregon's black leadership void

Airs at: Thu, 08/27/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

Black leadership is on the rise - from the White House to corporate giants like Xerox Corp. In progressive Oregon, however, blacks currently hold no elected positions in the city, county or regional governments within the metropolitan area where most of their community resi... Read more

The Black Struggle on the Waterfront

Airs at: Sun, 08/23/2009 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Labor Radio

Host Jamie Partridge talks with Deborah Stringfellow and Jerry Lawrence, founding members of the African American Longshore Coalition and rank-and-file leaders of Portland’s Longshore and Warehouse Union – ILWU local 8 about racism, union democracy and current struggles on ... Read more

August 17 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Sun, 08/16/2009 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris (pictured here) hosts this show focusing on prisons, healthcare reform, and labor issues; and featuring music from Tom Waits's CD Blood Money. For information about our theme music and our graphics, go to our main page. You can follow us on Twitter, and see... Read more