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Old Mole Variety Hour for January 13, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Mole dealing with Detroit, the increasing respect for socialism in the US, why Portland public workers may strike, a new novel about death row, and why appealing to the constitution is not the way to support whistle blowers like... Read more

Meeting to Support Portland Workers

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Aggressive Portland employers are pushing several local unions toward a strike in the coming weeks. This is no accident. Unions nationwide are facing Wisconsin-style attacks targeting public employees, teachers, students and everyone who benefits from public services. Join ... Read more

Portland School Board Meeting Rally

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Portland Public Schools and the school board are at an impasse in labor negotiations. Groups including the Portland Student Union, parents, community members, and local union workers took part in a rally at the Monday, January 13th school board meeting. Kboo’s Joe Meyer was... Read more

Jefferson HS students walkout for their teachers (raw audio)

Airs at: Fri, 01/10/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Jefferson High School students walked out Friday to support Portland teachers in their bitter contract struggle with the Portland school district.  Emphasizing class size and workload, prep time and individual instruction, the students called for the Schools Portland Studen... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 6 January 2014

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The first Old Mole Variety Hour of 2014 looks back at histories of struggle and forward to the end of alienation. Joe Clement hosts, and we hear segments on class struggle in labor and party politics, anti-capitalist activism in Mexico and globally, the revolutionary reform... Read more

Basic Income: curious utopia

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads from a Jacobin magazine article about basic income, nonreformist reforms, and utopian thinking on the capitalist road to communism. Read more

Howie Hawkins on Class Struggle in Labor and Party Politics

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Howie Hawkins, labor activist and former Green Party candidate in New York state. They discuss labor conditions at UPS and the speed-up tactics there, the Teamsters and Teamsters for a Democratic Union, capital mobility and so-called free trade. Read more

Kitzhaber's Federal Forest Plan

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Yesterday evening, the Oregon Board of Forestry unanimously approved a federal forest plan personally presented by Governor John Kitzhaber. The plan aims to direct the Board's actions in order to create a more favorable context for both commercial and stewardship activity o... Read more

Liz Ford Deconstructs Boeing Contract Negotiations

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO’s Jimmy Tardy spoke with Liz Ford, Professor of Labor Law at Seattle University, about the recent Boeing machinists’ contract negotiations and vote. Read more

Latest Boeing Machinists Contract Negotiations

Produced for:  Evening News
A new labor contract was approved in a close vote by Boeing machinists. The deal secures a major airplane contract for the Seattle area in exchange for workers’ pensions and other labor concessions. For more, KBOO’s Joe Meyer spoke with Boeing Union Machinist Jim Levitt. Read more