Economy

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Jesse Myerson: Five Radical Reforms Millenials Should Be Fighting For

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Jesse Myerson about an article he wrote a couple weeks ago for Rollingstone that proposes five radical reforms that millenials should be organizing around. These include a job guarantee, basic income, land value taxes, public banks, and soveriegn weal... Read more

Richard Smith on Chinese Environmentalism and Environmental Crises

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Richard Smith about the havoc that Chinese development has wreaked on the people and environment within Chinese borders, and what that means in the context of global capitalism and increasingly global ecological crises. Read more

Executive Branch Tries to Fast-Track TPP Through Congress

Airs at: Thu, 01/16/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO's Rachel Bennett spoke to Alisa Simmons, Field Director for Public Citizen's World Trade Watch, about President Obama's attempts to fast-track approval for the Trans-Pacific Partnership through Congress, despite the dearth of even sure Democratic support for the proced... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 6 January 2014

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The first Old Mole Variety Hour of 2014 looks back at histories of struggle and forward to the end of alienation. Joe Clement hosts, and we hear segments on class struggle in labor and party politics, anti-capitalist activism in Mexico and globally, the revolutionary reform... Read more

Zapatista Resistance to neoliberalism

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Well-Read Red Frann Michel considers the twenty years of NAFTA and of Zapatista resistance to NAFTA and neoliberalism. You can read a longer version of this piece, with links to sources, here on her blog. Read more

Howie Hawkins on Class Struggle in Labor and Party Politics

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Howie Hawkins, labor activist and former Green Party candidate in New York state. They discuss labor conditions at UPS and the speed-up tactics there, the Teamsters and Teamsters for a Democratic Union, capital mobility and so-called free trade. Read more

Megaload Protest: the Breakfast of Governors

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
This morning, protesters with Rising Tide interrupted a "power" breakfast being held by Governor Kitzhaber at downtown Portland's Governor Hotel, in order to give voice to concerns over the movement of megaloads of extraction equipment through tribal land in Eastern Oregon ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 23, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Mole, featuring two discussions of the situation and the prospects for change in post-apartheid South Africa, Jesus as a radical, and Capitalism and the environmental crisis.   To hear the whole show, including music, use the play but... Read more

Post-apartheid South Africa

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In spite of the ANC's and Nelson Mandela's socialist orientation, when they took power, they bought into neo-liberalism.  Why?  South Africa historian John Saul continues his discussion with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the future of class struggle in South Africa.  Pa... Read more

Post-apartheid South Africa

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In spite of the ANC's and Nelson Mandela's socialist orientation, when they took power, they bought into neo-liberalism.  Why?  South Africa historian John Saul continues his discussion with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the future of class struggle in South Africa.  Pa... Read more