Labor

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#MeToo Lessons for Labor

Airs at: Mon, 01/08/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel shares thoughts drawn mostly from an article by Jane McAlevey from In These Times about "What #MeToo Can Teach the Labor Movement," but also touching on disucssions of social reproduction theory by Tithi Bhattacharya and Silvia Federici, as well as inform... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 8, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 01/08/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Laurie Mercier and Norm Diamond host this Labor-focused episode, featuring music from the musical documentary Seattle 1919 as well as some Detroit blues.  In segments, Frann Michel shares lessons for labor from the #MeToo movement Norm and Laurie discuss his recent co... Read more

Contract Bargaining,Community Organizing, and Teachers' Unions

Airs at: Mon, 01/08/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Join us as we discuss contract bargaining and community organizing with teacher and union leader Evan Selby.  Evan teaches Social Studies at Reynolds High School and has been actively involved with his union (Reynolds Education Association) in numerous capacities for man... Read more

Court Confirms Constitutionality of Portland Fossil Fuel Zoning Rules

Airs at: Fri, 01/05/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
On January 4th, the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed, in large part, a Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) decision that undermined Portland’s landmark fossil fuel terminal zoning amendments, passed unanimously by the city council in December 2016. The court ruled that Por... Read more

Nina Lopez: the Movement to Decriminalize Sex Work

Airs at: Wed, 12/27/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Today, we broadcast our hour-long special with women's rights activist Nina Lopez. Lopez, London-based and Argentina-born, is with Legal Action for Women and the English Collective of Prostitutes. Mothers and grandmothers have spearheaded a movement that is successful ... Read more

North Pole Class Struggle

Airs at: Mon, 12/25/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Three leading elven labor activists from the North Pole Labor Study group offer a class analysis of the North Pole "gift economy"; via Jacobin.   Read more

Union Renewal

Airs at: Mon, 12/25/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks with Don McIntosh of NorthWest Labor Press about various perspectives on unions, differences or similarities with the Labor Notes perspective, the different kinds of unions, the value of communities of interest between unions and the people they ser... Read more

Parenting From Prison

Airs at: Mon, 12/25/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
  When one or both parents are incarcerated the family is also incarcerated and are adversely affected in profound ways that exacerbate existing structural inequalities and struggles. Programs for inmates and families like FamilyWorks and the Storybook Program, encourag... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for December 25th, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 12/25/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg Hosts this episode of the Old Mole and includes Bill Resnick and Don McIntosh, senior reporter for the Northwest Labor Press, discuss union renewal with examples of unions that inspire and activate members. A report from the class struggle at the n... Read more

Industrial Workers of the World 101

Airs at: Mon, 12/25/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Sam Scott, dual-card union member of the Portland Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFL-CIO), talks with hosts Amanda Hill and Jamie Partridge about the IWW's rich 112-year history of revolutionary and militant unionism. Read more