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Occupy Portland Radio Air Show 9/19/12

Airs at: Wed, 09/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Occupy Portland Radio
In this episode: We hear from Occupys from the west coast. The Occutour reports on their visit to Detroit. We talk with Trudy Cooper about her upcoming trip to Pakistan. A discussion with Dr. Jim and Beatrix from the Icarus Project. Tips for bailing y... Read more

Chicago Teachers Solidarity Rally

Airs at: Thu, 09/20/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Full audio of Portland's Solidarity Rally for Chicago Teachers Union, two day after their strike ended.  Speakers include Adam Sanchez, Social Equality Educators; Kirstin Roberts, Chicago Teachers Union; Susan Barrett, Oregon Save Our Schools; Sheila Warren, Portland Parent... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour September 17th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Iven Hale hosts this show and we hear about the Chicago Teachers Strike, Cuban reform and policies, a book review of Barbara King Solver's "Lacuna" and a movie-review of Branded. Bill Resnick talks with Samuel Farber about top-down and bottom-up socialism in Cuba ... Read more

Well-read Red: Chicago Teachers Strike

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 With a brief introduction by Iven Hale, Well-read Red Frann Michel offers an array of analyses about the real stakes of the Chicago Teacher's Strike. She presents arguments that defend the teachers union as fighting a rank-and-file organized campaign against neoliberal edu... Read more

On the Chicago Teacher's Strike

For the Old Mole Variety Hour 17 Sept 2012 Joanne Barkan in Dissent Magazine notes that, Yes, schoolchildren in Chicago are victims, but not of their teachers. They are victims of a nationwide education “reform” movement geared to undermine teachers’ unions and shift publi... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker hosts this show about the search for a vanished but popular musician, living shamelessly on public assistance, the demise of the European welfare state, and remembering a radical historian and activist.  To hear the whole show, use the play button below.  To hea... Read more

Eulogy for Alexander Saxton

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 The death of historian and novelist Alexander Saxton led Old Mole Tom Becker to reflections on Saxton's long life as a radical activist and historian of race and labor.  Saxton is the author of The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California a... Read more

Out Loud on 08/14/12

Airs at: Tue, 09/11/2012 at 12:00am
Interview with local business owner of Funhouse lounge Trenton Shine. http://funhouselounge.com/ Interview with Marsha and Brianna of the Ingersoll Gender Center http://www.ingersollcenter.org/ Musical guest Logan Lynn featured music from his discography. http://www.loganlynnm... Read more

Outloud -Funhouse Lounge, Ingersoll Gender Center, New Avenues

Airs at: Tue, 08/14/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Out Loud
Interview with local business owner of Funhouse lounge Trenton Shine. http://funhouselounge.com/ Interview with Marsha and Brianna of the Ingersoll Gender Center http://www.ingersollcenter.org/ Musical guest Logan Lynn featured music from his discography. http://www.loganlynnm... Read more

Sam Gindin on Building Working-Class Power Part 2

Airs at: Tue, 09/04/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talk with Sam Gidin in this second of a two-part interview. They consider why working class resistance during the current crisis has been insufficient to prevail over the maneuvers of the ruling apparatuses, and what’s the long term strategy/vision to build p... Read more