Economy

Old Mole Variety Hour 24 September 2012

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2012 at 12:00am

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Tom Becker hosts this episode and reads a selection from the work of Chris Hedges about the implications of environmental and economic collapse. Bill Resnick talks with Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau of Why Hunger? about how neoliberalism contributes to hunger and organic ag... Read more

Global Collapse, American Revolution

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker reads from an essay on the collapse of the environment and economy by Chris Hedges, Why the Revolution must Start in America. Read more

Hunger and Agroecology

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau, Outreach and Partnerships Coordinator for the Global Movements Program of Why Hunger?. They discuss how the problem of hunger is affected by long-standing issues of commodity speculation, demand for biofuels, so-called ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour September 17th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2012 at 12:00am

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Iven Hale hosts this show and we hear about the Chicago Teachers Strike, Cuban reform and policies, a book review of Barbara King Solver's "Lacuna" and a movie-review of Branded. Bill Resnick talks with Samuel Farber about top-down and bottom-up socialism in Cuba ... Read more

Movie Moles: Branded

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement and Denise Morris review the conspiratorial and at times surreal science fiction film, Branded, written and directed by Jamie Bradshaw and Alexsandr Dulerayn. Set in mostly present day post-soviet Russia, Branded is about how Misha Galkin (played by Ed Stoppa... Read more

Well-read Red: Chicago Teachers Strike

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

With a brief introduction by Iven Hale, Well-read Red Frann Michel offers an array of analyses about the real stakes of the Chicago Teacher's Strike. She presents arguments that defend the teachers union as fighting a rank-and-file organized campaign against neoliberal ... Read more

Sam Farber: finding socialism from below in Cuba

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Samuel Farber about Cuba and assessing its achievements, failures and status as a socialist country. Samuel Farber is a native of Cuba and a scholar about Cuba's history and politics. He's teaches at Brooklyn College in New York and is the author o... Read more

On the Chicago Teacher's Strike

For the Old Mole Variety Hour 17 Sept 2012 Joanne Barkan in Dissent Magazine notes that, Yes, schoolchildren in Chicago are victims, but not of their teachers. They are victims of a nationwide education “reform” movement geared to undermine teachers’ unions and shift pub... Read more

Live webstream from Occupy Wall St. anniversary event in Portland

On the first anniversary of the occupation of Wall Street, KBOO Radio once again goes mobile to bring you the voices of the ninety-nine percent in our community! Our mobile unit will be broadcasting LIVE on KBOO’s webstream from 6 to 9 pm from SE 12th and Oak St. at the ... Read more

Sam Gindin on Building Working-Class Power Part 2

Airs at: Tue, 09/04/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talk with Sam Gidin in this second of a two-part interview. They consider why working class resistance during the current crisis has been insufficient to prevail over the maneuvers of the ruling apparatuses, and what’s the long term strategy/vision to buil... Read more