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Pacific NW Labor History Conference 2018

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier speaks with Conor Casey, labor archivist at the University of Washington. They discuss the April 7 Pacific Northwest Labor History Association conference in Seattle, and how the Labor Archives attempts to preserve and share the region’s laboring and activist ... Read more

Portland Metro People's Convention

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Johanna Brenner of the Portland Metro People's Coalition discusses their upcoming convention.  Modeled after the Richmond Progressive Alliance, the Jackson Collaborative and the Barcelona Commune, the PMPC is organizing a People's Convention to ratify a Resident's Bill of R... Read more

The Inherently Unstable Economy: Nomi Prins

Airs at: Tue, 03/20/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  We hear a lot about bulls and bears and the magic of the stock market. The magic is shared by a few. The richest 10 percent own 84 percent of all shares of stock. Remember the days when Republicans prided themselves on being fiscally responsible? Well, they’re long gone.... Read more

Fascism Exported to the Caribbean and Africa

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  On this show, our first 2018 episode of The F-Word, when we talk about fascism. Professor Margaret Stevens, author of the new book 'Red International and Black Caribbean' joins us for a discussion that you don't want to miss. And one million students marching around the ... Read more

Marty Hart-Landsberg on Trade, Tariffs, and Trump

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick interviews Marty Hart-Landsberg on the U.S. economy, trade policy and how to understand Trump's imposition of tariffs and what's the left's most effective discourse on trade.     image via maxpixel       Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 12th, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes these segments: Bill Resnick interviews Marty Hart-Landsberg on the U.S. economy, trade policy and how to understand Trump's imposition of tariffs and what's the left's most effective discourse on trade. ... Read more

Presswatch on March 1st, 2018

Airs at: Thu, 03/01/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Today we'll be looking at some of the great accomplishments of US society, like infecting beetles with anthrax so that Korean kids will play with them, creating double-headed kids in Iraq with depleted uranium, wiping out whole families with Hotchkiss guns, and aerosol chee... Read more

The First 60 Days of Prop 64

Airs at: Sun, 03/04/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week: the first 60 days of Prop 64. We hear from CA State Senator Mike McGuire, CA State Assembly Member Jim Wood, Tim Ricard with the Sonoma County Economic Development Board, Hezekiah Allen with the California Growers Association, and Amanda Reiman, PhD. Read more

Candy Brings Plenty

Airs at: Fri, 02/23/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
An interview by host Leidi Monte with local indigenous rights activist, Candi Brings Plenty. Candi organizes for the Two Spirit Nation, a term to represent queer-identified people from the Native community. Last month, she orchestrated Portland’s first ever indigenous womxn... Read more

Capitalism in Black and White

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Drawing on an article by political philosopher Nancy Fraser, Clayton Morgareidge shows why capitalism began in racism (conquest and slavery) and continues to rely upon it. You can read this commentary on my blog. Photo Credit: Hulton Archive / Getty Images / Universal Imag... Read more