Economy

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well-read red: Does Capitalism Inevitably Produce Inequality?

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from a recent Counterpunch article, "Does Capitalism Inevitably Produce Inequalities?" by Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 7 2014

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Laurie Mercier interviews Peter Hart about his writing on media revisionism, scapegoating, and the Iraq War. Bill Resnick and Arun Gupta discuss the $15 minimum wage in Seattle and its implications for further class struggle. Clayt... Read more

Well-read Red: public austerity & private profits

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Well-read Red, Clayton Morgareidge, continues a theme he spoke about a few weeks ago concerning "stagnant capitalism" and connects it to a recent Jacobin article by Richard Seymour. Seymour's article critiques an article in the popular magainze, The Economist, for pandering... Read more

The $15 Minimum Wage And The Fight Beyond

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Arun Gupta about how the $15 minimum wage ordinance that was recently passed by the City Council in Seattle came to be. Arun points out how people are agitated by the bank-bailouts, the role played by Socialist Alternative and Kshama Sawant's electio... Read more

Benjamin Chavis Interview

Airs at: Mon, 06/30/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Dr. Benjamin Chavis is a civil rights pioneer. He led the NAACP in the early 90s and he was the director of the Million Man March. He is involved in a number of self empowerment initiatives including a collaboration with media mogul Russell Simmons to use hip hop as a way... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour June 23 2014

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode about neoliberal education in the Chinese context, the latest season of Orange is the New Black, We Are BRAVE (a reproductive rights & justice project aimed at serving women of color), and a proposed Communist Party of Cascadia. Bill Resn... Read more

Yong Zhao on Neoliberal Education in the Chinese and American Contexts

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Yong Zhao about high-stakes testing and related neoliberal education paradigms in China, and why there is resistance to it. They consider the danger of narrowing education with definitions of success tied to tests and quantifiable methods. Yong Zhao... Read more

Communist Party of Cascadia

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement speaks with two communist organizers, Stephanie Martin and Daniel Frontino Elash, about their plans to hold a meeting at Central Library 801 SW 10th (and Yamhill) on Monday June 23rd from 6-7pm in the US Bank Room. They are calling for local independent communis... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 16 June 2014

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this show about the tensions between possible futures--either ruled by military and corporate power or else organized as cooperative community. We hear these segments: Joseph DeFilipppis: Beyond Marriage Equality Checking in on Border Checkpoints Bill R... Read more

Joseph DeFilippis: Beyond Marriage Equality

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joseph DeFilippis, a founder of Queers for Economic Justice and drafter of the Beyond Same-Sex Marriage Statement, talks with Bill Resnick about the limits of the marriage-equality movement and what comes next. He notes the inadequacy of marriage as a legal frame for diver... Read more