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December 7 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Hosted by Denise Morris, this show discusses how to make jobs part of the economic recovery, the Afghanistan "surge," student protests against the tuition hikes in California, and how homophobia begins at home and what to do about it.  For information about our theme music... Read more

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 The Economic Policy Institute has a 5-point plan for making jobs part of the economic recovery, and a way to pay for it.  The EPI's Josh Bivins explains what it requires in this interview with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.  Bivins  is the author of Everybody Wins Except for... Read more

Million Worker March movement/ Colombia Human Rights

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Host Jamie Partridge talks with Clarence Thomas, co-chair of the Million Worker March movement, a leader of the African American Longshore Coalition, and former Secretary Treasurer of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Longshore and Warehouse Union – ILWU local 10 about taking wo... Read more

WTO - What It Really Costs

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The WTO works  to protect large corporations from having to bear the real costs of their production -- forcing the rest of us to pay with our health and the quality of our lives.  Magrete Strand of the Sierra Club and the Blue Green Alliance explains how it works in this co... Read more

Round Table Discussion

Airs at: Mon, 11/16/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Toby Greene of Laborers #483, Harry Olsen of PHOENIX Rising Transitions, and Michael Richards, an ex-convict who worked under a DOC contract, discussed some of the work done by convicts. Read more

November 23 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Do higher taxes make for fewer jobs -- or more?  Is Congress debating real healthcare reform -- or just another corporate bailout?  Is PTSD a good way to think about how people are  affected by violence?   This show takes on these questions, with host Tom Becker, Old Mole r... Read more

Taxes and Jobs

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Do higher taxes on businesses and wealthy individuals drive down investment and cost us jobs?  Not at all, according to Karen Kraut of United for a Fair Economy in this wide-ranging discussion with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.  In fact, higher taxes keep surplus wealth out... Read more

Wake Up and Smell The Boot Polish

Airs at: Tue, 11/10/2009 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris Today, Joe is by himself, and he opens the show with a reading of an article from August of 1993 that was printed in a small independent rag called PDXS.  The article was entitled "Wake Up And Smell The Boot Polish," and warned us of a pe... Read more

Kicking Us While We're Down: News & Views on Grocery Worker and Philly Transit Worker Struggles

Airs at: Mon, 11/09/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Tonight's show is about employers who seize the current economic crisis as an opportunity to pit working people against each other and undermine longstanding union rights.  First, we speak with Karyl Feliciano, a Fred Meyer employee, and Jenny Reed, United Food and Commerci... Read more

Union for 14 PSU Student Workers Files Unfair Labor Practice Complaint

Airs at: Fri, 08/14/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
A union representing fourteen part-time recycling specialists at Portland State University has filed an unfair labor practice complaint against Chancellor George Pernsteiner and the Oregon State Board of Higher Education.They say the University refused to include the recycl... Read more