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Labcorp Workers for a First Contract

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Maleah Paisley and Allister Brister-Smith, medical lab workers for Labcorp, a for-profit, multi-national corporation, discuss their struggle for a first union contract.  Labcorp recently took over the labs at non-profit Legacy and Providence facilities, driving down work... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 22, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Focusing on Housing & Houselessness and hosted by Frann Michel, this episode includes these segments: Portland's Housing Crisis and Solutions:  In 2015, the City of Portland declared a housing emergency.  Ten years later, more people in Portland are unhoused or preca... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 15, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 09/15/2025 at 9:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Mole, which includes the following segments: War and Climate Chaos: Laurie Mercier speaks with antiwar and climate activist Janet Weil, who discusses the Veterans for Peace Climate Crisis and Militarism Project. They also disc... Read more

Renters Bill of Rights

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Lela Schwartz and Mike Edera of the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) Housing Working Group lay out their campaign for the Renters Bill of Rights, a nine-point program soon to be brought to the Portland City Council to adopt as an ordinance.  Copied largely from a s... Read more

Capitalism's Enduring Use for Borders

Airs at: Mon, 08/11/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Ivan Drury Zarin explains how borders serve to undermine worker solidarity under capitalism.  This talk was part of an event held last month by Solidarity on the Origins & Problems of the Anti-Migrant Panic. That panel discussion was the culmination of a reading and d... Read more

Left & the Law: Conspiracy Thinking & the Epstein Case

Airs at: Mon, 08/11/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Trumpism has always been animated by dark conspiracies about Democrats and "elites" and a belief in the divinely ordained power of Trump to expose and punish his enemies.  The failure to deliver on the much hyped promise to release documents associated with the Epstei... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 18, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 08/18/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which features a re-broadcast from Against the Grain, titled Driving out Immigrants. The United States has often been celebrated as a nation of immigrants. Yet over the last century, the U.S. government expelled mor... Read more

Interview w/Josh Odam from Healing While Black

Airs at: Thu, 07/31/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Ancestral game as literature.  Black historical periodicals as time machines. Black Philly as a catalyst.  Got a great episode for you this week with our very special guest, Josh Odam from Healing While Black!   Josh Odam (he, him) is the Founder & Curator of Healing Whi... Read more

Musicians Union Resiliency Expo

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Hunter Buen, bass player and organizer with the American Federation of Musicians. local 99, discusses the struggles of musicians in the Rose City, especially those who work in bars, clubs, restaurants and hotels as independent contractors.  Among many initiatives, the un... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 28, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
On Monday's episode, hosted by Desiree Hellegers:  Laurie Mercier interviews Paul Ortiz, professor of labor history at Cornell University and author of An African American and Latinx History of the US. They talk about Latinx activism since the Trump election and how anti-... Read more