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Aerial Spraying violations: Applebee Aviation license suspended

Airs at: Mon, 10/05/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Regulators from two state agencies have fined an aerial spraying company a total of almost ten thousand dollars. Applebee Aviation has been fined by the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration eighty eight hundred dollars and the state Department of Agriculture... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 28, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode on documentaries, dictatorships, the Middle East, and Marx. These are the individual segments:  Bill Resnick talks with Ismael Hossein-zadeh about events in the Middle East. Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss the new documentary ... Read more

Fear of Marx

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from Why the US Press is Afraid of Marx (and Jeremy Corbyn) by Conor Lynch in Counterpunch.   In Marx’s analysis, widespread inequality and economic instability (and to a lesser degree environmental degradation) are inherent in the capitalist system, and... Read more

Blessing Workers & Rep. Keith Ellison on Free Trade in Colombia

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
A Multi-Faith Worker Blessing, sponsored by the Faith-Labor Committee of Portland Jobs with Justice, in commemoration of Pope Francis addressing the US Congress, features talks by low wage workers and faith leaders.  In the second half of the program, US Congressman Keith E... Read more

CALLING OUT FREE TRADE: REMARKS BY REP. KEITH ELLISON IN BUENAVENTURA, COLOMBIA

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Rep.Keith Ellison (D-MN), a member of the Congressional Monitoring Group on Labor Rights in Colombia, Co-Chair of the Progressive Caucus, and member of the Black Caucus, went to Colombia to see firsthand the effects of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement and the defects ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 21, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/21/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this show featuring music about love and a better world by Michael Jackson. The segments of the show are these: Journalist Arun Gupta talks with Bill Resnick about gentrification and the role of teachers' unions in resisting it. Jan Haaken explain... Read more

Why Save the Postal Service

Airs at: Mon, 09/21/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Long time postal worker and activist Jamie Partridge talks with Bill Resnick about political threats to the postal service and why it's important to save it. People wishing to support the postal workers will be gathering between 7 and 9 am on Wednesday, September 23 at the ... Read more

Changing Cities and Teachers' Unions

Airs at: Mon, 09/21/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Arun Gupta about how Portland, along with many other cities, is changing as it gentrifies the core and pushes poorer people out to the periphery. They also discuss the leading role that teachers' unions can have in organizing against these changes.  ... Read more

Renters Emergency (press conference)

Airs at: Tue, 09/15/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
A Renters Emergency was declared by the Community Alliance of Tenants at a press conference and rally held Tuesday, September 15th at Penninsula Park in North Portland.  Across the street from the rally, attended by about two hundred people, were two empty apartment complex... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 14, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this membership drive episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour, with segments on Social Security, historical fiction and reproductive justice, and rights of workers in sexual services. Bill Resnick talks with Eric Laursen about Social Security. This version ... Read more