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News You're Not Supposed to Know

Airs at: Thu, 08/15/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Presswatch

Presswatch

Airs at: Fri, 08/16/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Presswatch

Host Theresa Mitchell discuss abortion, abortion protesting and aborthion rights Read more

Jeff Shantz on Especifismo and Anarchist Organizing

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement talks with Jeff Shantz about anarchist organizing, particularly Especifismo in South America. He explains the origins of anarchist organizing and "platformism", relating those to innovations brought by the especifista, namely social insertion. Jeff Shantz is a p... Read more

ASOTRECOL Hits Two Year Mark in Their Huelga; Injured Colombian GM Workers Fight for Justice

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

At the beginning of August the Colombian autoworkers organized as ASOTRECOL, hurt on the job and then illegally kicked to the curb by General Motors, passed the two year mark in their continuous tent occupation in front of the US embassy in Bogotá. We called UAW retiree Fra... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 22, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour features Bill Resnick interviewing Chris Toensing about the ouster of the Morsi government in Egypt; Joe Clement talking with Adam and Daisy about starting a workers' cooperative pub in Portland; Larry Bowld... Read more

Yasmin Nair on ENDA

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and its limits. They discuss changes in the current version of the law and its assumptions about the innate nature of sexual identity and the kinds of trans* presentation it would protect. Nair... Read more

Putting the Pub in Public and the Public in the Pub: A Worker-Controlled Venture

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement discusses a movie mole review of the documentary Shift Change on worker-owned cooperatives, and talks with Adam and Daisy about their plans for a collectively-owned and -run pub in Portland.For more information or to make suggestions, attend a potluck in Laurelh... Read more

Chris Toensing on Egypt's Democratic Coup

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Chris Toensing of the Middle East Report talks with Bill Resnick about the recent overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood government elected a year ago in Egypt. Arguing that Morsi's government continued a number of Mubarak's neoliberal economic policies that are repressive to ... Read more

Longshore pensioner protest

Airs at: Mon, 07/08/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

KBOO labor reporter Jamie Partridge on the scene at a protest of over a hundred longshore workers, pensioners, family members and community supporters assembled outside and inside Pacific Maritime Association headquarters Read more

END THE LOCKOUT! Longshore community solidarity rally

Airs at: Mon, 06/24/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

Lataya Dailey, organizer of Monday's community rally in solidarity with ILWU 8 & 4 against the lockout by Columbia Grain and United Grain, speaks with KBOO labor reporter, Jamie Partridge. She also speaks to the crowd of a couple dozen supporters outside the office of Colu... Read more