Labor

Red and Black Cafe: worker-owned AND collectively-managed

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement interviews John Langly of the Red and Black cafe, an all-vegan cafe that's cooperatively owned by its worker as well as collectively managed. They talk about this radical approach to managing an organization, the intersection between community and workplace orga... Read more

Bill Smaldone: History of Social Democratic Party - Part 1

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick and Bill Smaldone start a two-part conversion about the German Social Democratic party in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Smaldone lays out the historical context of the consolidating and industrializing German state, then explains how the Social Democrats emerged... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour August 20th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

On Today's Old Mole, Frann Michel hosts, and we hear about how German social democrats built a parallel society for working people, a movie review of a Bob Marley biopic, and from a worker at the Red and Black cafe about their cooperatively owned and collectively managed m... Read more

Interviews with Gender/Trans Resources and Local Fun House

Airs at: Tue, 08/14/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Out Loud

On tonights show Out Loud's newest member and host Natalie Marie so-hosting with Kyle in his farewell segment spoke with Trenton, the owner and operator of the local perfomance space and bar the Funhouse Lounge! Trenton talked about a number of the fun activities going on w... Read more

Movie Moles: Heist - who stole the American Dream?

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel and Hyung Name review "Heist: who stole the American Dream." Directed Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher, narrated by Tom Hartman, based in part on the book "The Global Class-War: how Amerian's bi-partisan elite lost our future and what it'll take to win." H... Read more

Well-read Red: Do They Owe Us A Living? 'Course they do, 'course they do!

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement reads Peter Frase's case against the assumption of wage-labor in both capitalism and market-socialist visions of a fucture economy. Frase argues for a universal basic income, explaining why it would more directly address the problems with wage-labor, make it mor... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour August 6th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

New Mole, Iven Hale, hosts today's show. We hear about the Arab Spring, the politics of work and basic income, and a movie review of "Heist". Bill Resnick talks with Chris Toensing about the the Arab Spring. Joe Clement reads a blog-post by sociologist Peter Fras... Read more

Stories from Labor Notes Conference 2012

Airs at: Mon, 06/11/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

Tonight's Labor Radio features some wonderful highlights from the closing plenary at the May 2012 Labor Notes Conference in Chicago, bringing together people committed to rank-and-file leadership and militancy in the labor movement. Speakers include: Ken Spatta, a CWA... Read more

Barbara Jensen on Reading Class: On Culture and Classism in America

Airs at: Mon, 07/16/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

Barb Jensen is the author of a book about working-class and middle-class cultures, Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America. Angela MacWhinnie spoke with her for Labor Radio. Read more

Students Strike Back Against Austerity -- in Portland and Quebec

Airs at: Mon, 08/13/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

With total student debt now surpassing even total credit card debt, students and graduates around the world are looking austerity in the face and mobilizing against it. On tonight's show we speak with independent writer and researcher Andrew Gavin Marshall of Montreal, Cana... Read more