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Masters of the Universe, Redux

July 21, 2009 Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi gets to the heart of how one investment banking firm, Goldman Sachs, has engineered bubble after speculative bubble in the marketplace for years, always positioning itself to prosper in the wake of each disaster -- often at taxpayer... Read more

The July 20 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Sun, 07/19/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Hosted by Frann Michel (pictured here), this program deals with Israel-Palestine, a better way to think about taxes, a movie about walled-in globalization, and why the Democrats are not doing what we elected them to do.     For information about our theme music and our gr... Read more

What's Really Wrong With the Democrats

Airs at: Sun, 07/19/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 In this illuminating commentary, Bill Resnick explains the real reasons why the Democrats won't legislate real reform.  Case in point: their failure to include the card-check provision in the Employee Free Choice Act.  The problem is much deeper than  campaign contribution... Read more

Movie Moles: "Sleep Dealer"

Airs at: Sun, 07/19/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
   A world in which people are divided by walls but their labor and imaginations are globally linked -- that's the dark vision of Alex Rivera's film Sleep Dealer,  opening on Friday, 7/24 at the Hollywood Theater in Portland.  Movie Moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel tel... Read more

Knights of the road: lost history of the tramp printers and their union

Airs at: Sun, 07/05/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
You’ve heard of the cowboy poets and the lumberjacks, but why has history almost hushed up the tale of the tramp printers, who hopped trains and drank and set type and ran presses, and who by the mid-1800s had built a militant union with equal pay for women and a worker-run... Read more

Los Angeles teachers' hunger strike against layoffs; Mining communities in Colombia and Kentucky

Airs at: Sun, 07/12/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Sean Leys, Los Angeles public school teacher and AFT member, found the support of his dry cleaner and even the rival school's debate team when he participated in a 24-day hunger strike against 6,000 teacher layoffs he said would violate students' civil rights.  Now he and f... Read more

Service Works Picket Legacy Hospital

Airs at: Mon, 07/06/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
The employment contract for service workers at Legacy Good Samaritan hospital expired Wednesday (June 30) without agreement after negotiations broke down between SEIU Local 49 and Legacy management. KBOO reporter David Rosenfeld filed this report. Read more

UNION ORGANIZING 101

Airs at: Sun, 06/21/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Host Jamie Partridge interviews local union organizers Lorene Scheer of SEIU 503 and Margaret Butler of JOBS with JUSTICE about how to organize a union at your workplace.  Learn your rights and what to expect from your employer. Read more

A Radical Fix for the Economy

Airs at: Sun, 06/21/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Are "green shoots" sprouting in the rubble of our economy?  Economist Gerald Friedman talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the underlying problems with the US economy and the radical measures needed to fix it.  Friedman teaches at the University of Massachussetts, ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 15, 2009

Airs at: Sun, 06/14/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Hosted by Clayton Morgareidge (pictured here) and featuring union songs sung by Pete Seeger, this show covers the battle to get single payer health insurance on the table, the history of the International Longshore Workers Union, the Iranian elections, the detective novels... Read more