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UK Rising

Airs at: Wed, 08/17/2011 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
  We talk with Zita Holburne from BARAC - Black Activists Rising Against Cuts - in the UK. You'll also hear from anti-fascist organizer Weymann Bennett and family members of people who have died in police custody in Britain, organizing for justice and police accountability... Read more

Tri-Met Riders Unite! and Inquisitive Frog Visits Rep. Blumenauer

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
"I absolutely love bus organizing.  Bus riders are my people." As Tri-Met raises fares and decreases service, a bus ticket costs more than ever and may not get you as far.  A growing network of working-class transit riders are reaching out to each other on the bus and organi... Read more

Here's an idea, Mr. President: try governing the way you campaigned.

Airs at: Tue, 08/16/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor   What's a progressive to do these days? A federal court has declared the "individual mandate" provision of the health care bill to be unconstitutional, making it nearly inevitable that the case will find its way to the Supreme Court. Hmm, what sort... Read more

Letter Carriers Resist Postmaster's Shock Doctrine

Airs at: Mon, 08/22/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Letter Carriers and other postal workers are facing a barrage of scare tactics from the Postmaster General, including the threat of eliminating 30% of the workforce, half the post offices and three days of mail delivery.  Kevin Card, president of the Oregon State Associatio... Read more

IKEA Furniture Factory Workers Unionize! and The Deficit Myth

Airs at: Mon, 08/08/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
We start with the workers who made your IKEA bookshelf at a factory in Danville, Virginia.  Last month they formed a union with a sweeping 76% majority, after collecting twice as many signatures of support as there are people in the town of Danville!  How'd they do it?  We ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour August 8th

Airs at: Mon, 08/08/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole and we hear:   Bill Resnick interview Sam Pizzigati about inequality Tom reads an article on Empire and Inequality Larry Bowlden reviews Sheila Kohler's "Love Child" Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Wendy Webb talk about "If A Tree... Read more

We discuss The Debt Ceiling Debacle and a recent Advance in Women's Health Legislation

Airs at: Tue, 08/09/2011 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is on Summer Vacation. Even in these days of shadow, we manage somehow to lurch toward enlightenment. Amid the unfolding debt debacle -- and the first-ever downgrade of U.S. credit -- the Dept. of Health and Human Services announced that al... Read more

Double Radical Musicologists: the music and message of the IWW

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Through-out the show we played clips from famous songs written by members of the Industrial Workers of the World who, as Utah Phillips liked to put it, stole the hymn songs because they were pretty and changed the words so they'd make more sense. In the end, our radical ... Read more

Well Read Red: structural adjustments come to the USA

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann takes on the idea that the United States is broke, reminds us of the ramification of the kind of spending-cuts being demanded in Washington, and the sort of demands we should be making for the massive wealth held by the ruling class. She suggests that resistance to... Read more

AT&T and Keeping Monopolies in Check with Labor not Market-Power

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe and Josh Eidelson discuss the nuts and bolts of the AT&T merger. Josh explains why we should have no illusions about AT&T being ideologically pro-union, but points out how opposition to the merger exclude industrial power from having a positive, responsible role in ... Read more