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Who Needs the Minimum Wage?

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Geoff McDonald and Peter Oxforn about the wage system. Geoff recently wrote an article for CounterPunch urging more critical questions about the wage system than exist in the minimum wage debate. This discussion builds on those arguments and takes iss... Read more

WRR: Education In The Age of Neo-Liberalism

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel offers a Well-read Red on education in the age of neoliberalism. She outlines the historical transfers of power and responsibility for public education that have deformed the public university into a crass commercial project. From there she interrogates how thi... Read more

Soraya Chemaly and Bill Resnick on Toxic Football Culture

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick and Soraya Chemaly talk about football as an institution of popular US culture. They discuss how it perpetuates toxic masculinity and jingoism, socializes fans into power dynamics of centrality and marginality, and is not a very good platform for altheticism. ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour January 20 2014

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick hosts this episode and we hear: Bill talk with Richard Smith about Chinese pollution and the challenges for their environmental movement Joe Clement talks with Jesse Myerson about five radical reforms he proposed this month in Rollingstone Magazine ... Read more

Stand with Teachers for Racial Equity (raw audio)

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
The Portland Teachers Solidarity Campaign, with the Portland Parent Union and the Portland Student Union, held a press conference prior to the January 21st school board meeting, declaring that support for the Portland Association of Teachers demands for lower class sizes an... Read more

Jesse Myerson: Five Radical Reforms Millenials Should Be Fighting For

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Jesse Myerson about an article he wrote a couple weeks ago for Rollingstone that proposes five radical reforms that millenials should be organizing around. These include a job guarantee, basic income, land value taxes, public banks, and soveriegn weal... Read more

Richard Smith on Chinese Environmentalism and Environmental Crises

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Richard Smith about the havoc that Chinese development has wreaked on the people and environment within Chinese borders, and what that means in the context of global capitalism and increasingly global ecological crises. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 13, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Mole dealing with Detroit, the increasing respect for socialism in the US, why Portland public workers may strike, a new novel about death row, and why appealing to the constitution is not the way to support whistle blowers like... Read more

Meeting to Support Portland Workers

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Aggressive Portland employers are pushing several local unions toward a strike in the coming weeks. This is no accident. Unions nationwide are facing Wisconsin-style attacks targeting public employees, teachers, students and everyone who benefits from public services. Join ... Read more

Portland School Board Meeting Rally

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Portland Public Schools and the school board are at an impasse in labor negotiations. Groups including the Portland Student Union, parents, community members, and local union workers took part in a rally at the Monday, January 13th school board meeting. Kboo’s Joe Meyer was... Read more