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Peter Frase on Redefining Work

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Peter Frase of Jacobin magazine about his recent article on Redefining Work, on the desirability of eliminating waged work.  This version contains additional discussion not included in the broadcast for reasons of time. Read more

Ted Ferrioli Interview

Airs at: Tue, 03/04/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Ted Ferrioli is the Republican Minority Leader in the Oregon Senate.  He talked with Don Merrill about collegiality in Salem, the importance of doing what's best for his constituency and his opinion on the effect of the American Legislative Exchange Council on lawmaking. Read more

PSU Students Walk Out of Classes to Support AAUP Teachers Rally

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
          The teachers at Portland State University face a possible strike by early April, after declaring impasse in their negotiations with the university administration last week.            Thursday Feb. 27, over 600 P.S.U. students walked out of their classes to suppor... Read more

US Job Growth Subsidies Favor Corporate Tax Breaks Over Small Businesses

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
A new report on job growth in the U-S suggests that the bulk of subsidies being granted to business to spur job growth go to large corporate tax breaks, rather than small, local businesses. Leigh McIlvane is a research analyst with Good Jobs First, who issued the report. Th... Read more

Tim Carr Interview

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Tim Carr is a Republican who is running against incumbent Governor John Kitzhaber.  He talked with Don Merrill about Oregon's Public Employee Retirement System, the Columbia River Crossing, same sex marriage and why he thinks a gubenatorial candidate can only win if they wi... Read more

PSU Student Union members interviewed about impending PSU teacher strike

Airs at: Wed, 02/26/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Underground
PSU Student Union members interviewed about the possibility of the PSU professors strike, and the walkout to support faculty Thursday Feb 27th. Read more

Radical Musicology: the politics and music of Pete Seeger

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Brad Duncan about Pete Seeger's life growing up as a "red diaper baby", his own communist politics, and vision of a liberatory praxis driven by music. This online version of their conversation contains extra material not aired live because of time con... Read more

Elizabeth Thiel, PPS Teacher and Parent, on PAT/PPS contract struggle

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Elizabeth Thiel, a Portland Public School teacher and parent, about recent contract struggles. They talk about why they wanted to go on strike. She says teachers want to maintain and increase their ability to their job well. This means smaller classe... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 24 2014

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole and we hear a double report from Portland Public School teachers and student activists, a review of the fiction of Anita Brookner, as well as a discussion about the politics of Pete Seeger and his music. Bill Resnick talks with Elizabe... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 17 2014

Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick hosts this membership-drive special and we hear: Bill talk with Barbara Garson about how the 99% experience capitalism today.  Movie Moles, Joe Clement & Jan Haaken, review the PBS documentary "Pete Seeger: the power of song". Well-read Red Frann ... Read more