Labor

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

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

Movie Moles on Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: A Categorized Program Not

The movie moles review the PBS documentary "Pete Seeger: the power of song". They discuss the difficulties in venerating Seeger the person when he really wasn't about his own personal glory, how his combination of labor and music hearkens back to a more revolutionary labor ... Read more

Art Robinson Interview

Airs at: Thu, 02/13/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Between Us

Art Robinson is the president of the Oregon Republican Party and is competing as a candidate for the US House of Representatives in Oregon's 4th District against Democrat Pete Defazio. He talked with Don Merrill about issues ranging from Bitcoin to marijuana including lobb... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 10, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement is our host for this Membership Drive special for the Old Mole, playing music from the late Pete Seeger. We hear Norm Diamond and labor journalist Steve Early discuss the need to revitalize Union movement with democracy. Frances Moore Lappé talks with ... Read more

Unions and Class Struggle

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Steve Early is the author, most recently, of Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress, in addition to many other books and articles. He has been active as a labor journalist, lawyer, organizer, or union representative since 1972. Here he talks with Old Mole ... Read more