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Audio Archive: Oregon Women in Labor

Airs at: Thu, 05/16/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Recorded in 1985 Read more

KBOO Special Membership Meeting @ Tabor Space 050413

Airs at: Wed, 05/08/2013 at 12:00am
This is a recording of the meeting from the point when members moved outside to its conclusion.  Wind noise and distance of some speakers from recorder affect quality.  The written transcript, along with Board comments will be posted by KBOO.  The written transcript has ... Read more

Movie Moles: Shift Change

Airs at: Wed, 05/08/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel and Joe Clement review the documentary "Shift Change", directed/produced by Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young. The documentary surveys several cooperatively owned and managed businesses, mostly in the United States but also Spain's famous Mondragon. We hear fro... Read more

Oregon Labor History

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Monroe Sweetland's long career in labor organizing and progressive politics provides a tour through Oregon and American history since 1930.  Here Sweetland's biographer, William Robbins talks with the Old Mole's Laurie Mercier about Sweetland, and about the Pacific North... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour April 22, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
On this special Earth Day Old Mole Variety Hour, Joe Clement hosts, and we hear- Joe talks with Jeff Shantz about Green Syndicalism: An Alternative Red / Green Vision- Bill Resnick talks with Robert Dietz about Advancing a Steady State Economy- Tom Becker reads from Dav... Read more

Just Give Everyone Food Stamps

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads from Matt Breunig's blog on why we should just give everyone food stamps. In the latter half, he comments on how giving food stamps to everyone can bring us closer to a basic income, administratively and culturally. Reference to otherwise unexplained na... Read more

Graeber on the Coming Collapse

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from David Graeber's "Work it Out, Slow it Down," exerpted from his Practical Utopians Guide to the Coming Collapse, on the dangers of overproduction and the need to respond differently to economic and environmental crisis. Read more

Robert Dietz on Building a Sustainable Economy

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Robert Dietz, co-author with Dan O'Neill of Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources. Most people know the earth is on the wrong track—but how to change? Dietz proposes sharing work, guaranteed jobs (as in th... Read more

Jeff Shantz on Green Syndicalism

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Jeff Shantz about his book, Green Syndicalism: An Alternative Red / Green Vision. They discuss Shantz's history working for Greenpeace as the organization shifted from direct action to canvassing and lobbying, and the connections he made as an expl... Read more

New Directions for Labor (PDX Troublemakers School)

Airs at: Sat, 04/13/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Mark Brenner, director of Labor Notes, a national organizing center and sponsor of Troublemakers' Schools throughout the country, speaks to the 200+ labor activists at Portland's TMS on April 13, 2013 Read more