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Labor and the ATT Merger

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am
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 "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 s... Read more

The World of Hunger

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am
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 Why is food not reaching hungry people?  What could  be done about it?  For some clear answers to these questions, Bill Resnick talks with Christina Schiavone, Director of the Global Movements Project at WHY .  For more information on this topic, Schiavone recommends Fo... Read more

After Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am
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 In 2002, David Scheweickart, a professor of philosophy at Loyola University, published a small and very readable book called After Capitalism.   It was a thorough critique of capitalism as a system for organizing our productive labor and the wealth it produces, and also... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 07/04/11

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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On the next Old Mole, Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Jane Collins, a professor of sociology and women studies at University of Wisconsin. They discuss welfare since Bill Clinton's famous "reform" act of 1996 and working in the low-wage market.... Read more

Thomas Doyle Part Two: Radically Changing The Church

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
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Last week Bill and Tom talked about sex-abuse in the Church, resistance to dealing with it by leadership. When Bill asks Tom what he'd do if he was Pope, Tom says he'd get rid of the monarchial form of the Church. Tom describes the way that the monarchies of the past con... Read more

Jane Collins: welfare and the working-poor

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
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 Bill and Jane talk about the relationship between welfare and the working-poor, paying special attention to working-mothers in Jane's research. Jane says she and her colleagues have wanted to know how the relationship between government, families and business has change... Read more

Food-Stamps: an effective program that we can't afford to cut

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
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Joe talks with Jessica Chanay of Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon about the food-stamps program, its importance for recipients and society at large, and what it would mean if we applied 1996 Welfare Reform type cuts to it, as current legislators want to.   Read more

This Fourth of July, Let's Forget What The Founders Would Think

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
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 Joe reads from Joshua Holland's July 1st Alternet essay about the over-blown importance of what 18th Century men might think about our world today. Read more

Denise Morris and Mark Brenner: We Can Do Better Than The American Dream

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
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 Van Jones reclaim the American Dream movement kicks off tomorrow. Denise and Mark Brenner - the director Labor Notes - talk about the struggle the labor movement has ha d engaging American working-class history. Mark and Denise emphasize that the labor-movement doesn't ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 4th

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
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Joe Clement hosts and we hear:   1. Bill Resnick conclude his talk with Thomas Doyle about Church Sex-Abuse and revolutionizing the Church. 2. Bill talks with Jane Collins about welfare and the working-poor. 3. Joe talks with Jessica Chanay about the threat facing food-stam... Read more