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Racism and the Economic Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
People of color and especially immigrants have faced attempts to blame them for the economic crisis and to shift even more of the suffering onto their backs. Well-read Red Frann Michel  exposes these attacks in this commentary.  You can read it and find many links to her so... Read more

The Understimulating Stimulus Package

Airs at: Sun, 02/08/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
There is no way the stimulus package now being negotiated in congress is going to plug the leaks in the rapidly sinking economy.  Economist Michael Perlman explains why in this coversation with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.  Perlman is the author of many books, most recently ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 2, 2009

Airs at: Sun, 02/01/2009 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Hosted by labor historians Laurie Mercier and  Norm  Diamond, this Old Mole show focuses on the great Seattle General  Strike of 1919.  Norm and Laurie discuss this model of workers power, not just to shut a city down, but to run it without bosses.  Bill Resnick talks with ... Read more

Seattle's General Strike, 1919

Airs at: Sun, 02/01/2009 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This is the 90th Anniversary of the Seattle General Strike in which workers closed down the city -- except for essential services which they ran themselves with no help from management.  Labor Historians (and Old Moles)Laurie Mercier and Norm Diamond discuss those events ... Read more

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Airs at: Sun, 01/04/2009 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Join host Bill Zimmerman as he discusses the AUTO BAILOUT with MARK BRENNER Director of LaborNotes. Do auto workers make $70 per hour? Read more

KGW Journalists Complain of Dangerous Working Conditions

Airs at: Wed, 01/21/2009 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
THE UNION REPRESENTING PHOTO-JOURNALISTS THAT WORK FOR KGW AND BELO-CORPORATION HAVE ISSUED A BULLETIN ALERTING THE PUBLIC TO THE DANGERS THAT PHOTO-JOURNALISTS FACE WHEN WORKING ON LIVE NEWS TRUCKS. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 26, 2009

Airs at: Sun, 01/25/2009 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, this is the first Old Mole show of the Obama administration, so the Mole talks about the progressive agenda the new team needs to hear.  There is also music in the New Deal spirit of overcoming economic crisis by Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.... Read more

Auto Workers to Restructure Industry

Airs at: Sun, 01/25/2009 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Diane Feeley is a retired auto worker who writes about the labor and the industry for Against the Current.  Here she talks with Clayton Morgareidge about how the industry could best be restructured to provide more and better jobs -- but fewer cars!  Feeley is also part the ... Read more

Mandate for Change

Airs at: Sun, 01/25/2009 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Getting the best progressive ideas in front of the Obama team: that's the purpose of the book Mandate for Change, edited by Chester Hartman.  Hartman talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about many of the book's proposals for changing and saving our nation.  Read more

Wages in the Economic Crisis

Airs at: Sun, 01/11/2009 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour in 2010!  That's the proposal of well-known author and activist Holly Sklar and Let Justice Roll.  Holly talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the gap between the minimum wage and a living wage, and why raising the minimum is goo... Read more