Labor

Soraya Chemaly and Bill Resnick on Toxic Football Culture

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick and Soraya Chemaly talk about football as an institution of popular US culture. They discuss how it perpetuates toxic masculinity and jingoism, socializes fans into power dynamics of centrality and marginality, and is not a very good platform for altheticism. ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour January 20 2014

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick hosts this episode and we hear: Bill talk with Richard Smith about Chinese pollution and the challenges for their environmental movement Joe Clement talks with Jesse Myerson about five radical reforms he proposed this month in Rollingstone Magazine ... Read more

Stand with Teachers for Racial Equity (raw audio)

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

The Portland Teachers Solidarity Campaign, with the Portland Parent Union and the Portland Student Union, held a press conference prior to the January 21st school board meeting, declaring that support for the Portland Association of Teachers demands for lower class sizes an... Read more

Jesse Myerson: Five Radical Reforms Millenials Should Be Fighting For

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement talks with Jesse Myerson about an article he wrote a couple weeks ago for Rollingstone that proposes five radical reforms that millenials should be organizing around. These include a job guarantee, basic income, land value taxes, public banks, and soveriegn weal... Read more

Richard Smith on Chinese Environmentalism and Environmental Crises

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Richard Smith about the havoc that Chinese development has wreaked on the people and environment within Chinese borders, and what that means in the context of global capitalism and increasingly global ecological crises. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 13, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Mole dealing with Detroit, the increasing respect for socialism in the US, why Portland public workers may strike, a new novel about death row, and why appealing to the constitution is not the way to support whistle blowers like... Read more

Meeting to Support Portland Workers

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Aggressive Portland employers are pushing several local unions toward a strike in the coming weeks. This is no accident. Unions nationwide are facing Wisconsin-style attacks targeting public employees, teachers, students and everyone who benefits from public services. Join ... Read more

Portland School Board Meeting Rally

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

Portland Public Schools and the school board are at an impasse in labor negotiations. Groups including the Portland Student Union, parents, community members, and local union workers took part in a rally at the Monday, January 13th school board meeting. Kboo’s Joe Meyer was... Read more

Jefferson HS students walkout for their teachers (raw audio)

Airs at: Fri, 01/10/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

Jefferson High School students walked out Friday to support Portland teachers in their bitter contract struggle with the Portland school district. Emphasizing class size and workload, prep time and individual instruction, the students called for the Schools Portland Studen... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 6 January 2014

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

The first Old Mole Variety Hour of 2014 looks back at histories of struggle and forward to the end of alienation. Joe Clement hosts, and we hear segments on class struggle in labor and party politics, anti-capitalist activism in Mexico and globally, the revolutionary reform... Read more