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Portland High School Students Walk Out in Support of Teachers' Strike Vote

Airs at: Wed, 02/05/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

This morning, hundreds of students walked out of six Portland High Schools in solidarity with the Portland Association of Teachers' strike vote. The PAT reached an impasse in contract negotiations with the Portland Public Schools board on November 20, and the two sides have... 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

Soraya Chemaly and Bill Resnick on Toxic Football Culture

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick and Soraya Chemaly talk about football as an institution of popular US culture. They discuss how it perpetuates toxic masculinity and jingoism, socializes fans into power dynamics of centrality and marginality, and is not a very good platform for altheticism. ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour January 20 2014

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick hosts this episode and we hear: Bill talk with Richard Smith about Chinese pollution and the challenges for their environmental movement Joe Clement talks with Jesse Myerson about five radical reforms he proposed this month in Rollingstone Magazine ... Read more

Stand with Teachers for Racial Equity (raw audio)

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

The Portland Teachers Solidarity Campaign, with the Portland Parent Union and the Portland Student Union, held a press conference prior to the January 21st school board meeting, declaring that support for the Portland Association of Teachers demands for lower class sizes an... Read more

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