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Oregon Labor History

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Monroe Sweetland's long career in labor organizing and progressive politics provides a tour through Oregon and American history since 1930.  Here Sweetland's biographer, William Robbins talks with the Old Mole's Laurie Mercier about Sweetland, and about the Pacific North... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour April 22, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
On this special Earth Day Old Mole Variety Hour, Joe Clement hosts, and we hear- Joe talks with Jeff Shantz about Green Syndicalism: An Alternative Red / Green Vision- Bill Resnick talks with Robert Dietz about Advancing a Steady State Economy- Tom Becker reads from Dav... Read more

Just Give Everyone Food Stamps

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads from Matt Breunig's blog on why we should just give everyone food stamps. In the latter half, he comments on how giving food stamps to everyone can bring us closer to a basic income, administratively and culturally. Reference to otherwise unexplained na... Read more

Graeber on the Coming Collapse

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from David Graeber's "Work it Out, Slow it Down," exerpted from his Practical Utopians Guide to the Coming Collapse, on the dangers of overproduction and the need to respond differently to economic and environmental crisis. Read more

Robert Dietz on Building a Sustainable Economy

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Robert Dietz, co-author with Dan O'Neill of Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources. Most people know the earth is on the wrong track—but how to change? Dietz proposes sharing work, guaranteed jobs (as in th... Read more

Jeff Shantz on Green Syndicalism

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Jeff Shantz about his book, Green Syndicalism: An Alternative Red / Green Vision. They discuss Shantz's history working for Greenpeace as the organization shifted from direct action to canvassing and lobbying, and the connections he made as an expl... Read more

New Directions for Labor (PDX Troublemakers School)

Airs at: Sat, 04/13/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Mark Brenner, director of Labor Notes, a national organizing center and sponsor of Troublemakers' Schools throughout the country, speaks to the 200+ labor activists at Portland's TMS on April 13, 2013 Read more

Beyond Bargaining: How Unions Can Fight for All Workers (Troublemakers School plenary)

Airs at: Sat, 04/13/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Stephanie Luce, author of Fighting for a Living Wage, Joe Mizrahi, UFCW organizer in Seattle Paid Sick Days Campaign, Sarah Chambers, Chicago Teachers Union leader, Sindy Avila, HERE 8 organizer of immigrants, and Angela MacWhinnie of SEIU's We Are Oregon community organ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour April 8th, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 04/08/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Tom Becker hosts this episode where we hear about the Portland Troublemakers School (April 13th) from two of its organizers, a movie review of "No", a discussion about the crises in Europe, and a book review of Jennifer Egan's "Look At Me". An error clipped the first co... Read more

Steve McGiffen in Portland to discuss European crisis

Airs at: Mon, 04/08/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Steve McGiffen about the intersecting political, cultural and economic crises in Europe. Steve is in town to speak about these topics and facilitate a discussion at the Red and Black on April 10th at 7:00pm. From the Red and Black's site:The EU is ... Read more