Labor

Old Mole Variety Hour October 28 2013

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2013 at 12:00am

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Denise Morris hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Fight for $15 labor activist, Trisha Kahle, about the movement and its political contexts Larry Bowlden reviews Portland-area author Whitney Otto's "Eight Girls Taking Pictures". Well-re... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 21 2013

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am

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Iven Hale hosts this two-hour membership-drive special that focuses on the environment and various social struggles that link up with it (note that pitch-breaks accounts for about 40 minutes of the programming otherwise excised). Mark Hertsgaard talks about his new book "... Read more

Labor Environmentalism

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am

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In Part 4 of the Old Mole's special two-hour program on climate change, host Iven Hale talks with labor historian and long-time Portland writer, activist, and Old Mole contributor Norm Diamond about work that Norm did to develop the field of labor environmentalism at a time... Read more

KBOO Workers win first-ever union contract!

Employees of KBOO-FM ratified their first-ever union contract Oct. 8, locking in compensation and workplace rules for one year. The agreement was reached four months after workers voted 8-0 to join Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 7901 — and several days before... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour September 30 2013

Airs at: Mon, 09/30/2013 at 12:00am

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Clayton Morgareidge hosts this Old Mole that, in addition to a discussion about the Syrian civil war and other mid-east conflicts, converges on a theme of social democracy under attack and the political stakes in its being defunded. Bill Resnick talks with Chris Toensing a... Read more

Food Stamps and Class Politics

Airs at: Thu, 10/03/2013 at 12:00am

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Joe Clement reads a short commentary about food stamps in terms of class warfare, and to that end as supporting the working-classes' capacity to organize and be organized to radical ends. Read more

WRR: Public Pensions vs. Public Education - a forced choice?

Airs at: Mon, 09/30/2013 at 12:00am

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Frann Michel brings us the Well-read Red, this time focusing on pension-raiding under neoliberalism and the PERS system in Oregon, which Governor Kitzhaber has advocated cutting in order to make up for education cuts. In Frann's words: let's pit old people against young peo... Read more

Labor Radio on 8/26/13

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2013 at 12:00am

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We feature interviews from the city of Portland workers' solidarity rally on August 14, 2013 and we discuss the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. More resources:NW Labor Press article on outsourcing at the City of PortlandBook review of the M... Read more

Well-read Red: Injustice In the Wage-System vs. Wage-System As Injustice

Airs at: Mon, 09/02/2013 at 12:00am

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Frann Michel brings us the Well-read Red. She muses on the dire state of labor, and by the end focuses on the need to challenge not just injustice in the wage-system, but to decouple income from jobs and overthrow the wage-system as such. Read more

On the Phenomenon of BS Jobs

Airs at: Mon, 09/02/2013 at 12:00am

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Joe Clement summarizes and otherwise reads from David Graeber's article "On the Phenomenon of BS Jobs". A more user-friendly version can be found at LibCom.com Read more