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Decriminalizing Sex Work

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Red, an activist and representative with SWOP USA--Sex Workers Outreach Project. She is active with the Portland SWOP Chapter and also director of the new program in Portland, STROLL: Sex Traders Radical Outreach & Liberation Lobby.  They talk about th... Read more

Girl in the River

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Patsy Kullberg (also an Old Mole), about her new novel, Girl in the River. The novel--a work of historical fiction--centers on the struggles of a fictional working class young woman, finding her way in the actual world of corruption, vice squads, and a... Read more

Eric Laursen on Social Security

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Eric Laursen, author of The People’s Pension: The War Against Social Security, from Reagan to Obama, available from AK Press. They discuss how and why Social Security survived in the face of elite attacks since its inception. Laursen is part of the m... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 7, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: The Movie Moles review two documentaries about female musicians. The first is about Amy Winehouse, the second is about Nina Simone. Bill Resnick talks with Mark Jacobson about scaling up renewable energies to meet real-wor... Read more

Labor Day's Radical Roots

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reflects on Labor Day's radical roots. All too often pitted against celebrations of International Workers Day, Labor Day was born of the same international-tending workers movement that also gave birth to May Day. To help tell this story, Joe reads from Eugene R... Read more

INJURED COLOMBIAN WORKERS & "FREE TRADE" PROMISES

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
INJURED COLOMBIAN WORKERS FROM THE GENERAL MOTORS PLANT IN BOGOTÁ HAVE OCCUPIED A TENT IN FRONT OF THE U.S. EMBASSY FOR OVER 4 YEARS, SEEKING JUSTICE AND SOME OF THE LABOR RIGHTS PROMISED BEFORE A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WAS SIGNED BY THE TWO COUNTRIES.  THEY TALK ABOUT THEIR ... Read more

EN LAS CARPAS DE RESISTENCIA CON TRABAJADORES ENFERMOS COLOMBIANOS

Airs at: Sun, 09/06/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
HACE MÁS QUE CUATRO AÑOS LOS TRABAJADORES ENFERMOS MIEMBROS DE ASOTRECOL MANIFIESTAN SU LUCHA POR UN TRATAMIENTO JUSTO Y SU OPOSICIÓN AL TRATADO DE LIBRE COMERCIO COLOMBIA-EEUU EN CARPAS FRENTE A LA EMBAJADA ESTADOUNIDENSE EN BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA.  DOS COMPAÑEROS HABLAN DE LA H... Read more

Janus Youth Workers Rally for 15

Airs at: Fri, 08/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Janus Youth Workers, organized in the Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies), march on their boss (Dennis) and rally outside the headquarters of the non-profit agency which works with homeless and marginalized youth.  Host Jamie Partridge interviews two workers, Tyler a... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 24, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 08/24/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode with segments featuring Jeremy Brecher on Climate Insurgency, Denise & Joe on Housing Justice, and readings on the cost of low wages and the radical promise of Reconstruction. Bill talks with Jeremy Brecher about Climate Insurgency. Tom reads ... Read more

Radical Reconstruction

Airs at: Mon, 08/24/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge reads from a piece by Alex Gourevitch in the current issue of Jacobin "Our Forgotten Labor Revolution" arguing that the Reconstruction of the South following the Civil War was ended because its promise of freedom was threatening to go beyond the abolitio... Read more