Economy

Wealth and Taxes

Airs at: Mon, 03/29/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  From the archive, the rich claim their private wealth is under assault in proposals to increase taxes on the wealthy to pay for improved healthcare. But do they really own their wealth?  Clayton Morgareidge explains why they don't and how taxes and justice are related. ... Read more

Full Interview | Dr. Juniper Simonis

Airs at: Tue, 02/23/2021 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
  This is the full version of an interview with Dr. Juniper Simonis, an environmental scientist and data researcher with Dapper Stats and the Chemical Weapons Research Consortium, from the February 23, 2021 episode of Totality of Circumstances. Dr. Simonis witnessed the st... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour March 29th 2021

Airs at: Mon, 03/29/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Densie Morris Hosts this episode of the Old Mole and includes Against the Fascist Creep Bill Resnick talks to Alexander Reid Ross on how the radical right has grown over the recent past and what can be done to re-marginalize them.  Ross is the author of the book Agains... Read more

Portland's Industrial Sacrifice Zone

Airs at: Mon, 03/29/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Before European settlers transformed the north reach of the Willamette River, near its confluence with the Columbia, it was a braided river of shallow channels and islands rich in biodiversity. Today the area is designated an industrial sanctuary, but the communities that w... Read more

Conversation with Alfred Webre

Airs at: Fri, 03/26/2021 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Squirrels Know
On this episode, join Ender Black with acclaimed researcher, activist, author, futurist, Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd, graduate of Yale Law School and a former Fulbright Scholar. He has taught economics at Yale University and constitutional law at the University of Texa... Read more

Pass the PRO Act to Win a Green New Deal

Airs at: Mon, 03/22/2021 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
The Democratic Socialists of America national priority campaign is to push Congress to pass the PRO Act (Protecting the Right to Organize) to win a Green New Deal.  Two local DSA labor activists, Hollie Oaks-Miller and Ted Bryan detail this transformative labor law legislat... Read more

The "Shelter to Housing Continuum" proposal, and other topics

Airs at: Wed, 03/17/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
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Amazon workers Organizing in Bessemer, Alabama

Airs at: Mon, 03/08/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Amazon workers Organizing in Bessemer, Alabama. Johanna Brenner interviews Adam Obernauer, Organizing Director for the Retail, Warehouse, and Department Store Union about the campaign to organize Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama.  A predominantly African Americ... Read more

Stop Line 3 actions

Airs at: Mon, 03/08/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Stop Line 3 actions. Jan Haaken talks with Extinction Rebellion PDX organizer Diana Meisenhelter about the national mobilization to support the Indigenous-led Stop Line 3 actions in Northern Minnesota, and why these actions are so critical in the fight against expansion of ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour March 8th 2021

Airs at: Mon, 03/08/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris Hosts this episode of The Old Mole which includes   Women and Climate Justice. Bill Resnick talks to Suzanna Kassouf, a leader and very active in Portland’s Sunrise Movement that has rapidly grown across the U.S. and world, attracting young people. In th... Read more