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REI Employees for REAL CHANGE

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Alpine Anderson, a former worker at REI, the iconic outdoor store coop, tells host Jamie Partridge about REI workers struggles for living wages, benefits, decent hours and respect. Read more

Your Home, Your Right or My Business?

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  This week, Making Contact looks at California's fight over rent control. The stage is set for a political battle between two polar worldviews. Is housing a human right, or is real estate property an investment commodity? And where on that continuum is California's common... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 18, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 06/18/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Thom Becker is our host and presents the following pieces: 1. Korea scholar Martin Hart-Landsberg discusses the Trump - Kim Jong Un summit with Laurie Mercier 2. The Left & the Law team take up the legal challenge to the policy of taking children away from immigrant famili... Read more

Teachers on Strike Across the Nation

Airs at: Mon, 06/18/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Old Mole’s Bill Resnick talks with Joel Jordan, a long time high school teacher in Los Angeles who is also a writer, activist, organizer, and a leader in the radical caucus that managed to gain power in the Los Angeles Teachers Union. They discuss the recent rising of t... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 4, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 06/04/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier hosts this episode of the Old Mole, with these segments: 1. Joe Clement talks with IWW organizer Marianne Lebatt about solidarity unionism and taking direct action in the workplace. 2. Janet Bauer from the Oregon Center for Public Policy talks with Laurie Me... Read more

Crafts and the Labor of Love

Airs at: Mon, 06/04/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Old Mole’s Bill Resnick speaks with Michael Bierute, a graphic designer who has been senior critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art. Bierute has won international design awards and has many publications, including the Design Observer, a blog of design and cul... Read more

Solidarity Unionism

Airs at: Mon, 06/04/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Leading off the hour, the Mole’s Joe Clement talks with IWW organizer Marianne Lebatt about solidarity unionism and taking direct action in the workplace to win demands, solve problems, and build power. Marianne draws from history, current struggles, and her own experience ... Read more

Civilization and Our Discontents

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In a piece called "Civilization and Our Discontents," Clayton Morgareidge shows that the glories of Civilization have always required the coerced labor of forgotten masses, and the same is true of the comforts of modern life: they are manufactured by the poor for the enjoym... Read more

The Need to Work Less

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from an article by David Spencer, entitled “The Need to Work Less is a Matter of Life and Death,” about the impossible demands on workers’ time extracted by the capitalist economy. David Spencer is a Professor of Economics and Political Economy at  Universi... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 11, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 06/11/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel hosts this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour with segments on: From Asylum to Prison: Bill Resnick talks with Dr. Anne E. Parsons about her forthcoming work From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945. Inequ... Read more