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Old Mole Variety Hour March 24 2014

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this show and we hear: Bill talks with Bob Peterson of Rethinking Schools about the corporate agenda against public education, and how advocates for real education are and must continue to resist it. Joe Clement talks with Anna Coote of the New ... Read more

Toward a 30 Hour Work Week

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement and Anna Coote talk about an article she wrote for the NYTimes advocating a reduction of the work week to 30 hours*. They consider not just the reduction of the work-week, but different ways of appreciating our limited time. The fundamental issue is that the mor... Read more

Bob Peterson on rethinking schools, debunking the privatizing agenda, and fighting for education

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Bob Peterson of Rethinking Schools. They discuss the capitalist agenda to remake education into a business and why it isn't working. They consider ways that teaching has to connect to children's real lives, which standardized testing makes impossible... Read more

Stagnant Wages, Rising Productivity, and Unemployment as Ideological Problem

Airs at: Mon, 03/10/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads a CounterPunch article by Geoffrey MacDonald, "The Revolving Door of Unemployment". MacDonald argues against the fallicious logic that tries to solve problems created by economic growth, like stagnating wages and unemployment, with MORE economic growth. Ge... Read more

High Stakes Testing As Class War Strategy

Airs at: Mon, 03/10/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with local education activist Hyung Nam about high stakes testing in US schools. Hyung talks about how he was threatened with firing from Wilson High School for asking critical questions about high stakes testing, but also for raising other critical quest... Read more

March1014finalforair

Airs at: Mon, 03/10/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Interviews with students and teachers at Portland State University, fighting for a fair contract. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 3 March 2014

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear about recent events in Venezuela, a 2009 documentary about pharmeceutical profits and female sexual dissatisfaction, a discussion of the meanings of work beyond waged labor, and an upcoming performance about young women negotiating... Read more

Peter Frase on Redefining Work

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Peter Frase of Jacobin magazine about his recent article on Redefining Work, on the desirability of eliminating waged work.  This version contains additional discussion not included in the broadcast for reasons of time. Read more

Ted Ferrioli Interview

Airs at: Tue, 03/04/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Ted Ferrioli is the Republican Minority Leader in the Oregon Senate.  He talked with Don Merrill about collegiality in Salem, the importance of doing what's best for his constituency and his opinion on the effect of the American Legislative Exchange Council on lawmaking. Read more

PSU Students Walk Out of Classes to Support AAUP Teachers Rally

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
          The teachers at Portland State University face a possible strike by early April, after declaring impasse in their negotiations with the university administration last week.            Thursday Feb. 27, over 600 P.S.U. students walked out of their classes to suppor... Read more