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We Are Oregon organizes in neighborhoods and the fight against free trade deals intensifies

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
SEIU organizes in neighborhoods, not just workplaces, in the We Are Oregon campaign, and the fight against three more free trade deals reaches a peak - Labor Radio interviews Angela MacWhinnie of SEIU and Elizabeth Swager of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign. Read more

July 18 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Laurie Mercier is our host today for this program about labor and politics. We hear about the continuing struggle of progressives in Wisconsin to resist attacks on labor by Republicans and to overcome the temerity of Democrats.  We hear from Sandy Pope running against Jam... Read more

Working Class Missing on TV

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 The working class  is missing from popular TV shows, as this analysis by Josh Eidelson shows.  Josh's funny and biting piece, published on the Dissent website and on his blog, is read here by the Old Mole's Joe Clement.  It's called "Welcome to TV-Ville, Population: Richer... Read more

Sandy Pope and the Teamsters

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Sandy Pope, a long-time member and leader of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), is  in a two-way race with James Hoffa for President of the Teamsters Union.  Here she talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what she would do for the Teamsters and the  Labor Moveme... Read more

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