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Queer Culture Radio

Airs at: Tue, 03/15/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Out Loud

Tonight, we welcome Kate Mura to Out Loud. She works with the Fuse Theater Ensemble, and is very involved with the Portland Mini Fringe Festival. Grant Knutson joins the conversation to discuss the many theater events happening with this festival. We take a music break to h... Read more

March 14 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris hosts this show featuring a review of the Matt Damon movie (based on a Philip K. Dick story) The Adjustment Bureau; a discussion of the ideological ambiguities thrown up by the struggle for the recognition of domestic violence; some questions and about the me... Read more

Wisconsin: What's Ahead?

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Old Moles Bill Resnick and Norm Diamond discuss organizing efforts in Wisconsin and other states where masses of people have turned out in opposition to drastic budgit cuts. What has to happen if this energy is to lead to a real challenge to the power of the moneyed elite... Read more

Best of Times, Worst of Times: Waking Up the Slumbering Giant in Wisconsin

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

Will 2011 be remembered the beginning of a great uprising, or labor's last gasp? Governors in Wisconsin and across the country are pushing draconian measures to cut public services and the power of working people, but union workers and their allies are mobilizing resistanc... Read more

Voices from the Edge 03-10-11 Wray Harris

Airs at: Thu, 03/10/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

How's the war economy working for you? That's the question many Americans will be asking on March 19, the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. U.S. policymakers have little to show for eight years of fighting in Iraq and nine years of war in Afghanistan other t... Read more

Neoliberalism and the War on Women

Airs at: Mon, 03/07/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel reviews recent attacks on reproductive rights considers how "the neoconservative movement to enforce gender conformity and women's subordination dovetails with the neoliberal agenda of cutting social programs." The full-text version with media-links can be f... Read more

Hallelujah I'm a Wobbly

Airs at: Mon, 03/07/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

The song Utah Phillips is singing here is "Hallelujah I'm a Bum," probably written by a Wobbly (a member of the Industrial Workers of the World) in the early 20th Century. Joe reads the preamble to the IWW constitution. Read more

How Organizing Teachers Is Essential to Education Reform

Airs at: Mon, 03/07/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill and Gwen talk about the business model that groups like Stand up for Children are pushing as educational reform, and how teachers unions are under attack because of their resistance. Gwen Sullivan is the vice-president of the Portland Teachers Association and an elem... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour March 7th

Airs at: Mon, 03/07/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Today's show, hosted by Joe Clement, features interviews about teachers struggling against the businessizing of education, single-payer healthcare in Oregon, neoliberalism and gay marriage, and a Well Read Red about the connection between the war against women and labor st... Read more

Voices from the Edge 03-03-11 True Crime: Fact and Fiction about Oregon's Crime Rate

Airs at: Thu, 03/03/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

True Crime: Fact and Fiction about Oregon's Crime Rate Turn on the local news and most likely the lead story will be about crime. Its the rare elected official who won't suggest crime is overwhelming our public safety resources. Its little wonder that the maj... Read more