Economy

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Well-read Red: Neoliberalism and Education, Portland State Edition

Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Well-read Red Frann Michel reads from Henry Giroux about neoliberalism, connecting the more unsustainable than usual mode of capitalist ideology and worldmaking to the defunding and alround attack on universities. In the latter half, she focuses on class struggle at Portlan... Read more

Barbara Garson: how the 99% live during the Great Recession

Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2014 at 12:00am
Bill Resnick talks with Barbara Garson about writing people's conscious and not so conscious experiences of exploitation, domination and precariousness in the 20th and 21st Centuries. She's the author of  "Down The Up Escalator: how the 99% live in the Great Recession", whi... Read more

Comcast and Time-Warner Intend to Merge

Airs at: Thu, 02/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Comcast Corporation and Time Warner Cable announced their intention to merge today and the proposed forty five billion dollar deal is expected to draw scrutiny from both the justice department and the federal communications commission. Media Reform advocacy group Free Press... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 3 2014

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this Old Mole and, in addition to the music of Pete Seeger, we hear: Bill Resnick and Soraya Chemaly about football as an institution of popular culture. Frann Michel offers a Well-read Red on Education in the Age of Neoliberalism. Joe Cleme... Read more

Bill Resnick on the late Pete Seeger

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick offers some brief comments about Pete Seeger, addressing his past involvement with the Communist Party, but also his break from it and other advocacy. He points in the direction of worthwhile reads that go into more detail. Read more

Who Needs the Minimum Wage?

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Geoff McDonald and Peter Oxforn about the wage system. Geoff recently wrote an article for CounterPunch urging more critical questions about the wage system than exist in the minimum wage debate. This discussion builds on those arguments and takes iss... Read more

WRR: Education In The Age of Neo-Liberalism

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel offers a Well-read Red on education in the age of neoliberalism. She outlines the historical transfers of power and responsibility for public education that have deformed the public university into a crass commercial project. From there she interrogates how thi... Read more

KBOO Receives Grant to Investigate ALEC Ties to Oregon Legislation

KBOO Community Radio 90.7 FM has been awarded a five thousand dollar grant from the Fund For Investigative Journalism (FIJ) to conduct an investigation of Oregon legislation which has been influenced or created by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).  With this... Read more

The NSA is an Apparatus of Class War

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge reads three articles on the national security state. The first by Gleen Greenwald appears in Common Dreams. The second, by Tom Dispatch, appears in Portside. The final one by Noam Chomsky appears in Salon. The collectively make the point that the nationa... Read more

Wolf of Wall Street Syndrome, Neoliberalism & Toxic Individualism

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge reads Chris Masiano's incisive take on the toxic individualism of neoliberalism and how it undermines our collective sensibilities. Published first in Jacobin as Chicken Soup for the Neoliberal Soul, then in Salon as Wolf of Wall Street Syndrome. Read more