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Paid Sick Days Now: an illness to one is contagious for all

Airs at: Mon, 09/03/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Emmit Nolan and Marie, members of the Portland IWW, about their Paid Sick Days Now! campaign. In addition to the October 6th rally at Holiday Park, they discuss the problem of workers coming into work sick because they have no other choice, the fai... Read more

Sam Gidin on Building Working-Class Power

Airs at: Mon, 09/03/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talk with Sam Gidin in this first 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 build p... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 27 August 2012

Airs at: Mon, 08/27/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale hosts and we hear about German socialist history, the novel Sense of an Ending, Political Aspects of Full Employment, and The Living Death of Solitary Confinement: Bill Resnick continues his Interview with Historian Bill Smaldone about the German Social Democra... Read more

Politics of Full Employment

Airs at: Mon, 08/27/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge reads an essay by Michal Kalecki from Monthly Review, "Political Aspects of Full Employment," explaining why capitalists object to government support of full employment: without painful consequences to job loss, employers lose a powerful tool for coe... Read more

Disabled Colombian GM Workers Gain Mediation Agreement, Suspend Hunger Strike, Need Justice Now

Airs at: Mon, 08/27/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
The occupationally disabled Colombian autoworkers of ASOTRECOL signed a mediation agreement with General Motors and suspended their three week old hunger strike, while continuing their more than year long occupation of the curb across the street from the US embassy in Bo... Read more

Red and Black Cafe: worker-owned AND collectively-managed

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement interviews John Langly of the Red and Black cafe, an all-vegan cafe that's cooperatively owned by its worker as well as collectively managed. They talk about this radical approach to managing an organization, the intersection between community and workplace o... Read more

Bill Smaldone: History of Social Democratic Party - Part 1

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick and Bill Smaldone start a two-part conversion about the German Social Democratic party in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Smaldone lays out the historical context of the consolidating and industrializing German state, then explains how the Social Democrats emer... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour August 20th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 On Today's Old Mole, Frann Michel hosts, and we hear about how German social democrats built a parallel society for working people, a movie review of a Bob Marley biopic, and from a worker at the Red and Black cafe about their cooperatively owned and collectively manage... Read more

Interviews with Gender/Trans Resources and Local Fun House

Airs at: Tue, 08/14/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Out Loud
On tonights show Out Loud's newest member and host Natalie Marie so-hosting with Kyle in his farewell segment spoke with Trenton, the owner and operator of the local perfomance space and bar the Funhouse Lounge! Trenton talked about a number of the fun activities going o... Read more

Movie Moles: Heist - who stole the American Dream?

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Frann Michel and Hyung Name review "Heist: who stole the American Dream." Directed Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher, narrated by Tom Hartman, based in part on the book "The Global Class-War: how Amerian's bi-partisan elite lost our future and what it'll take to win.... Read more