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Radical Reconstruction

Airs at: Mon, 08/24/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge reads from a piece by Alex Gourevitch in the current issue of Jacobin "Our Forgotten Labor Revolution" arguing that the Reconstruction of the South following the Civil War was ended because its promise of freedom was threatening to go beyond the aboli... Read more

The Cost of Low Wages

Airs at: Mon, 08/24/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads Pete Dolack's Low Wages Don't Come Cheap, about wage suppression and the use of public funds to subsidize the profits of the corporate elite. [public domain image via wikipedia] Read more

Climate Insurgency

Airs at: Mon, 08/24/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Jeremy Brecher, author of Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival. They discuss the limits of the Obama clean energy plan and the opportunites it offers to push for global actions that will actually help salvage a humanly liveable climate; the... Read more

Economists for $15 minimum wage

Airs at: Tue, 08/18/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Three Portland economists speak in favor of raising the minimum wage in Oregon to $15.   Mary King, professor emerita at Portland State University; Martin Hart-Landsberg, professor at Lewis and Clark College; and Robin Hahnel, professor American University and Portland S... Read more

Tenants Union: Fight Your Landlord And Win!

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads a pamphlet produced by Buffalo Class Action (a Buffalo, New York area anarchist political organization) about the political situation of the for-profit housing system and the power that tenants have to challenge and ultimately transform it, if and when ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for July 13, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 07/13/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker is our host for this edition of the Old Mole, and we learn why education and job training are not the solution to unemployment, how US tax law benefits corporate tax evasion, and how and why the American Psychological Association condoned torture during the G.... Read more

Education: No Cure for Poverty

Airs at: Mon, 07/13/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Gordon Lafer talks with the Old Mole’s Bill Resnick about why education and training programs will not put a dent in the unemployment rate.  Lafer is a political economist at the University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center and the author of The Job Trainin... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for July 6, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 07/06/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Norm Diamond interview the Low Tide Drifters, who also perform live in studio. Joe talks with Ryan Wisnor, of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association, about remembering "Blood Wednesday" Joe also talks with... Read more

Remembering Bloody Wednesday in Pier Park

Airs at: Mon, 07/06/2015 at 12:00am
Joe Clement talks with Ryan Wisnor about Blood Wednesday, a labor battle fought during the auspicious year of 1934, when general strikes erupted in Portland and other West Coast port cities. In particular, striking longshoreworkers blocked the train that runs near Pier P... Read more

Low Tide Drifters: underdog folk music

Airs at: Mon, 07/06/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Norm Diamond talks with the Low Tide Drifters, whose "music for the rest of us" draws on growing up in coastal oregon, wobbly didacticism, environmental as well as socially conscious themes, and phenomenal performances all around. They talk about their backgrounds and th... Read more