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Latest News from Wisconsin

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Andrew Sernatinger, a baker, activist, and labor-organizer in Madison, Wisconsin about the class struggle there.  What is left out of the mainstream conversations is progressive taxation, while Democrats appear on the side of unions mostly for their ... Read more

July 11 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Old Mole which deals with food and world hunger, a book about a future after capitalism, labor and the left in the AT&T merger with T-Mobile, and the political horizons for cyborgs.   For information about our theme music and ... Read more

Labor and the ATT Merger

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 "What could a telecom merger mean for economic democracy?" asks  Josh Eidelson in an article published in Dissent.  AT&T is merging with T-Mobile.  Is that a bad thing because it limits competition in a communications industry?  Or a good thing because AT&T is a union shop... Read more

Arthur Stamoulis talks about the Columbia Free Trade Agreement

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Radiozine
Arthur Stamoulis of Oregon Fair Trade Campaign talks about the demonstration planned for Congressman Earl Blumenauer's Office on Monday, July 11 * 12:00 noon at 729 NE Oregon St (Near the 7th Avenue MAX Station) Fifty-one union leaders were assassinated in Colombia last year... Read more

Delegación de Sinaltrainal en Estados Unidos

Airs at: Sun, 07/10/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Labor Radio
Sindicalistas de Colombia hablan sobre el TLC y derechos laborales. Read more

Portland Rising Boosts Solidarity to a New Level

Airs at: Mon, 07/25/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Labor Radio
Portland Rising , a project of JOBS with JUSTICE, loaded 150 activists on three buses for a day of action in solidarity with seven different private & public sector unions whose contracts expired on that same day, June 30th .  JwJ Director Margaret Butler  talks with host J... Read more

Canadian Union of Postal Workers Forced Back to Work

Airs at: Mon, 07/25/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Labor Radio
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers, after six weeks of rotating strikes, a lockout, and back-to-work legislation, continues to struggle for a fair contract.  Denis Lemelin, national president of CUPW, is interviewed by Portland letter carrier, Jamie Partridge, about the i... Read more

Denise Morris and Mark Brenner: We Can Do Better Than The American Dream

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Van Jones reclaim the American Dream movement kicks off tomorrow. Denise and Mark Brenner - the director Labor Notes - talk about the struggle the labor movement has ha d engaging American working-class history. Mark and Denise emphasize that the labor-movement doesn't hav... Read more

Jane Collins: welfare and the working-poor

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill and Jane talk about the relationship between welfare and the working-poor, paying special attention to working-mothers in Jane's research. Jane says she and her colleagues have wanted to know how the relationship between government, families and business has changed t... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 4th

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts and we hear:   1. Bill Resnick conclude his talk with Thomas Doyle about Church Sex-Abuse and revolutionizing the Church. 2. Bill talks with Jane Collins about welfare and the working-poor. 3. Joe talks with Jessica Chanay about the threat facing food-stamp... Read more