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Reclaiming Work

Airs at: Wed, 09/10/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
A day will come when workers will no longer be slaves to the time clock, claims IWW member Chuck Allen. The original demand for less clock time early in the last century was for the 4-hour day 4 days a week. What we got instead was the 8-hour day.  Chuck wrote this piece, r... Read more

Environmentalists React to Port of Portland's Propane Export Deal

Airs at: Thu, 09/04/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The Port of Portland has approved a new propane gas export terminal at the port. This project is the largest single private capital investment in the city’s history. The Mayor of Portland, Charlie Hales, applauded the new terminal, which he says will bring jobs to the city.... Read more

Smart ALEC Oregon: KBOO Reporters Investigate ALEC Conference in Kansas City

Airs at: Thu, 09/04/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Smart ALEC Oregon
The sixth piece examines the ALEC conferences themselves in terms of what gets accomplished.  Annual spring and winter conferences are events where legislators discuss potential model legislation with business leaders.  The annual summer conference is more of a public relat... Read more

Ed Pilkington Interview

Airs at: Tue, 09/02/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Ed Pilkington is the Chief Correspondent in New York for London's "The Guardian" newspaper. He has done a substantial amount of reporting on the American Legislative Exchange Council, a free market organization that promotes the interests of big business over those of smal... Read more

Kathi Weeks: debunking utopianism's critics

Airs at: Mon, 09/01/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement brings Kathi Weeks back on the show to talk about another chapter in her book The Problem With Work: marxism, feminism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries: utopianism. Kathi describes both realistic and deliberately unrealistic invocations of the utopia... Read more

Raising Expectations, and Raising Hell: Jane McAlevey's book on rank-and-file unionism

Airs at: Mon, 09/01/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Old Moles Bill Resnick and Norm Diamond talk about union organizing by way of a mutual review of Jane McAlevey's book "Raising Expecations, and Raising Hell: my decade fighting for the labor movement". They consider the official and cynical meaning of labor day, but also th... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour Labor Day Special 2014

Airs at: Mon, 09/01/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this labor day special, which features conversations about reducing the work week and having real power in society as workers, challenging stagnant norms in union organizing, the problem with work and utopianism. We also hear clips of political humor in ho... Read more

Fifteen Now PDX

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Justin Norton-Kerston and Shamus Cooke talk about the growing Fifteen Now movement in Portland (15NOWpdx) and the push for a raised minimum wage for City contracted workers, City workers, and a statewide $15 minimum wage ballot measure.  Contact 15NOWpdx.org. Read more

Organizing Against Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge discusses the kind of movement needed to challenge inequality and save the environment. Noting that neoliberalism rationalizes plutocracy and the security apparatus needed to put down rebellions against the elites, Clayton draws on an essay by Sam Gindin... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for 18 August 2014

Airs at: Mon, 08/18/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel hosts this episode, with segments on police violence in Honduras, Ferguson, and Palestine, and on a local non-profit nourishing bodies and communities in Portland. Musical selections: Sound of da Police by KRS One; Call the Cops by Rob Hustle ft. Liv; Tired ... Read more