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Live audio from Postal Service Rally

Airs at: Mon, 03/18/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick attended the rally on Sunday in support of the Postal Service workers and against cuts in service, including Saturday deliveries.  He recorded sound bites from speeches and interviews at the rally, plus a more extended defense of the Postal Service by Willie Go... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour March 11th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 03/11/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole and we hear about Hugo Chavez and Venuzuela, the new drug-war action film Snitch, wage-slavery and republican visions of liberty, and space warfare.Bill Resnick talks with Michael Fox about Hugo Chavez and what's next for Veneuzalans.Jan Haake... Read more

A Republican Critique of Wage-Slavery?

Airs at: Mon, 03/11/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Today words like "republican" or "independence" or "liberty" are likely to conjure ideas about the freedom of business, right to work laws, and the aggrandizement of owner-entrepreneurs. Joe Clement interviews Alex Gourevitch's about his recent article for Jacobin Magazine ... Read more

Earned Sick Leave Hearing at City Hall

Airs at: Thu, 03/07/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO reporter Jamie Partridge interviews participants outside a City Council hearing on an earned sick leave ordinance -- Dan Clay, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers local 555, Charlotte, a Fred Meyer worker, Steve Hughes of the Working Families Party and ... Read more

Fasting for Injured Colombian GM Workers

Airs at: Fri, 03/08/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
John Walsh testifies about his one day fast, part of a series of rolling fasts across the country, in support of injured Colombian GM workers demanding justice from the American automaker. Read more

Rolling Solidarity Fasts with ASOTRECOL, Injured Colombian GM Workers

Airs at: Thu, 03/07/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
People in Portland, the rest of the US, and Colombia are engaging in a series of one-day fasts in solidarity with the injured Colombian autoworkers association, ASOTRECOL.  The workers got hurt on the job at General Motors and then kicked to the curb.  Listen to the people ... Read more

Author Cheryl Waiters on her memoir, "Blood, Sweat, and High Heels"

Airs at: Thu, 03/07/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Hosts Patricia Welch, O.B. Hill, and Emma Jackson Ford speak with Cheryl Waiters. In her inspiring memoir, "Blood, Sweat, and High Heels," Cheryl Waiters chronicles her struggles and victories as an African American female working to overcome gender and racial biases in the... Read more

David Weiman on Mass Incarceration

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with economist David Weiman about the political forces encouraging the growth and maintaining of prisons and punitive policing in the USA. They consider not only media influence and legislators desire to keep jobs in their areas but also the fear-enhanci... Read more

Jane McAlevey on Making Unions Matter Again

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2012 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
 Host Cecil Prescod interviews labor activist Jane McAlevey about the state of the labor movement and how to make unions matter again. McAlevey has been an organizer in the labor and environmental justice movements for the last twenty years. She is a PhD candidate at CUNY G... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 18th 2013

Airs at: Mon, 02/18/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Iven Hale hosts this President's Day episode. Please note that an unforseen glitch in the recording clipped the first 30 or so seconds from the beginning. Once it can be recovered it will be re-inserted. All that was lost was the intro-music and some of Iven's opening rem... Read more