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Presswatch for 12-15-2011

Airs at: Thu, 12/15/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Topics include the situation in Iraq, the Jazz timber sale in the Bull Run Watershed, a letter from port truck drivers andf listener calls. Read more

OCCUPY THE POST OFFICE D19

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
The Postmaster General has announced the imminent closure of 41 rural post offices in Oregon.  The PMG claims the postal service must shrink due to its financial crisis, but he is restricted by law from closing post offices for "economic reasons".  The Rural Organizing Proj... Read more

Kevin Card talks about the crisis facing the U.S. Postal Service.

Airs at: Tue, 12/20/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris Kevin Card, president of the Oregon State Association of Letter Carriers, joins Abe and Joe to discuss the crisis facing the U.S. Postal Service. Also, Joe fills us in on the history of labor in the United States and the state of organiz... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this Old Mole episode which surveys the Occupy movement; the differences between the US and the UK labor movements; workers' struggles in our  broken food industry; and an implausible story about a poisoned husband.   For information about our them... Read more

Working in the Food Industry

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The system that puts food on our tables is broken and corrupt.  The Food Chain Workers’ Alliance is a coalition of worker-based organizations whose members plant, harvest, process, pack, transport, prepare, serve, and sell food.  In this conversation with director Joann Lo,... Read more

Labor Action: US v UK

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 A few weeks ago, British public employees mounted the biggest general strike  since the 1920s.  Why have we seen nothing like that from unions in the US?  Joe Clement introduces and then comments on what labor journalist Mike Elk had to say about this question.  Read more

How GM Kicks Occupationally Disabled Workers to the Curb in Colombia

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
GM assembly workers in Colombia suffer occupational disabilities resulting from outdated equipment and production methods, then the company forces them out of their jobs.  The workers and their families fight back by occupying a spot right across the street from the US emba... Read more

Labor Strife at OSPIRG

Airs at: Thu, 12/15/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Two progressive advocacy groups, OSPIRG, the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group, and Environment Oregon, are experiencing labor strife. Today, outside the call center for the Fund for the Public Interest, at the Portland Telephone Outreach Project, where teleph... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/12/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill Resnick is our host today with live coverage of the West Coast port shutdowns.  Bill talks with activists on the scene here in Portland and in Oakland.  Also on the show, the Movie Moles take us back in time to the politics of It's A Wonderful Life, Tom Becker reads a... Read more

Phony Crisis of the US Postal Service

Airs at: Mon, 12/12/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jim Cook is engaged in a struggle to save the U.S. Postal Service from a crisis that may bring it down and leave all our mail in the hands of private corporations.  Here he talks with Bill Resnick about why the crisis is a fake and what needs to be done about it.  Jim is Pr... Read more