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March 21 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show which features anti-nuke activist Harvey Wasserman, a movie about Palestinian immigrants, a dark vision of our civilization's decline, and a discussion of why our current economic system cares little about creating jobs. For informatio... Read more

Why Jobs Are Not a Priority

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

There are many ways government could create jobs, and yet with almost 16% real unemployment, very little is being done. Clayton Morgareidge draws on an insightful article from 70 years ago by Michal Kalecki, recently republished in the Monthly Review, to explain why. Read more

Voices from the Edge 03-17-11 A new look at Oregon's Measure 11 and its impacts

Airs at: Thu, 03/17/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

A new look at Oregon's Measure 11 and its impacts Kevin Mannix promised voters in 1994 that his Ballot Measure 11 establishing minimum mandatory sentences would create certainty in Oregon's criminal justice system. While the measure tripled the state's prison populatio... Read more

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