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GETTING CONGRESS TO WORK FOR THE NINETY NINE PERCENT

Airs at: Mon, 12/05/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Fifty four Oregonians are on their way to Washington, DC this week to "Take Back the Capitol" for Good Jobs, Not Cuts.  A coalition of groups from We Are Oregon, Oregon Action, Service Employees International Union, and Jobs with Justice have organized the Oregon Delegation... Read more

US china Solar panel trade war

Airs at: Mon, 12/05/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Friday, a U.S trade panel ruled that solar imports from China were harming the U.S. domestic solar industry. In response, China’s Ministry of Commerce said it is deeply concerned that the decision shows a strong inclination to trade protectionsism, and was reached without s... Read more

WRR: Capitalism without Capitalists? Is It Possible or Desirable?

Airs at: Mon, 12/05/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe reads two two inter-related blog-posts - "Are CEOs workers, and should we care?" and "Capitalism without Capitalists" - by Peter Frase. Joe mistakenly says Frase teachs at CUNY, where he is only a doctoral student in sociology. Frase writes his own blog, but is an edito... Read more

WRR: Occupy Production!

Airs at: Mon, 12/05/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge reads an essay (edited for radio) by marxist economist Richard Wolff, published in Monthly Review and Truth-Out. Wolff makes a quick, but potent case for workplace democracy as the next phase for Occupy. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour Dec. 5th

Airs at: Mon, 12/05/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Joe Clement hosts today's old Mole and we hear:   Bill Resnick talk with Chris Williams about the COP-17 international climate change conference. Clayton Morgareidge reads an essay by Richard Wolff about workplace democracy and the occupy movement. Laurie M... Read more

It Calls You Back

Airs at: Fri, 12/02/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Carlos Chavez interviews author, poet and activist Luis J Rodriguez. They discuss his new memoir, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing. Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Chicano writers in the country with f... Read more

Winning Paid Sick Leave in Seattle

Airs at: Mon, 11/28/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Dave Freiboth, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Martin Luther King County Labor Council, discusses Seattle's new paid sick leave ordinance and what it took to win it. Read more

Black Women in the Trades

Airs at: Mon, 11/28/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Fewer Black women are entering and staying in the building and construction trades than in the 1970s.  Portland State University Professor Roberta Hunte provides insights into institutional barriers and survival strategies for our sisters of color.  Jamie Partridge co-host... Read more

Colombian Port Workers Describe How They Live and Work

Airs at: Mon, 12/12/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
The Unión Portuaria, the Colombian union of port workers, takes members of a Witness for Peace delegation on a tour of the modern Pacific coast port of Buenaventura, and then of the impoverished barrio in which the workers live. Read more

This Thanksgiving, Abe and Joe give thanks for an awakened American people.

Airs at: Tue, 11/22/2011 at 12:00am
  This Thanksgiving, there is so much to be thankful for, even in this time of hungry ghosts. The American people have awakened, and a Movement is afoot. Abe and Joe give thanks for the Occupaction, and take your calls. A Listener recommended reading From Dictatorship to De... Read more