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Don’t Quit, Organize!

Airs at: Mon, 11/01/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Old Mole Joe Clement talks with labor activist-educator Eric Dirnbach about Strike-tober, the mass quittings and staff shortages affecting the American economy, and whether we're seeing what former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has called "a disorganized general strike... Read more

Art Talk Bus Stop: October Youth TBA Special

Airs at: Wed, 10/27/2021 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Talk Bus Stop
This month we turn the microphones around on the students. They share their experiences with arts education, and we enjoy a TBA Festival report from Reynolds High School alum and artist Viktoria Moskalenko. Produced by Erica Thomas @ericameryl Design: worksprogressagency... Read more

Organizing Against Authoritarianism and Climate Chaos

Airs at: Mon, 10/25/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Max Elbaum on the two existential threats facing humanity -- authoritarianism and global roasting. They discuss how to defeat both, building the broadest of lefts, including segments of the Democratic Party that today might support the sweeping mo... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for October 25, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 10/25/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: Authoritarianism and Global Roasting: Bill Resnick interviews Max Elbaum on the two existential threats facing humanity. They discuss how to defeat both, building the broadest of lefts, including segments of the Democratic Party... Read more

Labor Radio on 10/18/21 - Eviction Resistance

Airs at: Mon, 10/18/2021 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Hosts Michael Cathcart and Elliott Gilliland take a look back at the end of the federal government's eviction moratorium, and what Congress and local governments have done since to help keep working and unemployed Americans in their homes. They also share information abo... Read more

Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee on 10/17/21

Airs at: Sun, 10/17/2021 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee
  At the pivot from Libra to Scorpio we take a look back at some early critiques of private property from John Ball and Wat Tyler in 1381; the Diggers in 1649; and Portland's own Jack Reed who passed from the corporeal on this date in 1920. Read more

Inequality Project's Bob Lord on revelations in the Pandora Papers

Airs at: Thu, 10/07/2021 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  The Pandora Papers revealed the hidden owners of offshore empires, where the rich and powerful across the world hide wealth and wield influence abroad. KBOO's Jenka Soderberg speaks with Bob Lord from the Inequality Project to understand more about what exactly the Pa... Read more

The Organizing Vision of MLK

Airs at: Mon, 09/27/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
To amplify Dr. Bakke’s remarks about the important contributions of the Black church to progressive organizing we play a short clip of remarks from 2004 by Reverend Jesse Jackson about the Martin Luther King organizing vision. Reverend Jackson was on this occasion the gu... Read more

A People's History - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 09/23/2021 at 11:30am - 12:30pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Mike Konopacki is a longtime labor cartoonist who collaborated with historians Howard Zinn and Paul Buhle to adapt Zinn's book A People’s History of the United States into comics form. Konopacki joined S.W. Conser in July of 2008 to offer a behind-the-scenes look at ... Read more

Nabisco Strike Over, the Struggle Continues

Airs at: Mon, 09/27/2021 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Donna Jo Marks and Mike Burlingham, leaders of the Bakers Union local 364, recap the forty days on strike and how it transformed their members and themselves. Read more