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Old Mole Variety Hour August 1st

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts today's show and we hear: Bill Talks With Marty Hart-Landsberg about the debt-ceiling and the working-class. Joe talks with Josh Eidelson about the AT&T merger and why industrial labor power matters. Well Read Red, Frann Michel, talks about ... Read more

Vancouver Hilton Workers Struggle for a Fair Contract

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Vancouver Hilton Hotel Workers, organized in UNITE HERE local 9, are struggling for a fair contract at the 5-year old convention center, which is owned by the City of Vancouver.  Negotiating team member, Lucas Fielder, talks with host Jamie Partridge about wage disparities ... Read more

Conservatism: the gnawing fear that someone, somewhere, might be having a good time.

Airs at: Tue, 07/19/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is still on vacation.   In the 2010 elections, the GOP snatched up statehouses and state legislatures across the country. Predictably, an onslaught of regressive legislation has ensued -- againstwomen, against minorities, against the envi... Read more

We Are Oregon organizes in neighborhoods and the fight against free trade deals intensifies

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
SEIU organizes in neighborhoods, not just workplaces, in the We Are Oregon campaign, and the fight against three more free trade deals reaches a peak - Labor Radio interviews Angela MacWhinnie of SEIU and Elizabeth Swager of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign. Read more

July 18 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Laurie Mercier is our host today for this program about labor and politics. We hear about the continuing struggle of progressives in Wisconsin to resist attacks on labor by Republicans and to overcome the temerity of Democrats.  We hear from Sandy Pope running against Jam... Read more

Working Class Missing on TV

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 The working class  is missing from popular TV shows, as this analysis by Josh Eidelson shows.  Josh's funny and biting piece, published on the Dissent website and on his blog, is read here by the Old Mole's Joe Clement.  It's called "Welcome to TV-Ville, Population: Richer... Read more

Sandy Pope and the Teamsters

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Sandy Pope, a long-time member and leader of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), is  in a two-way race with James Hoffa for President of the Teamsters Union.  Here she talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what she would do for the Teamsters and the  Labor Moveme... Read more

Latest News from Wisconsin

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Andrew Sernatinger, a baker, activist, and labor-organizer in Madison, Wisconsin about the class struggle there.  What is left out of the mainstream conversations is progressive taxation, while Democrats appear on the side of unions mostly for their ... Read more

July 11 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Old Mole which deals with food and world hunger, a book about a future after capitalism, labor and the left in the AT&T merger with T-Mobile, and the political horizons for cyborgs.   For information about our theme music and ... Read more

Labor and the ATT Merger

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 "What could a telecom merger mean for economic democracy?" asks  Josh Eidelson in an article published in Dissent.  AT&T is merging with T-Mobile.  Is that a bad thing because it limits competition in a communications industry?  Or a good thing because AT&T is a union shop... Read more