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Strikes & the Politics of Worker Power

Airs at: Mon, 09/02/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Joe Clement talks with Marianne Garneau about strikes and the politics of worker-power. They consider how strikes have been tamed in the last 100 year by labor law and what that has meant for their usefulness in winning gains for workers. If strikes are still useful, wha... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour September 2, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 09/02/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel hosts this Labor Day episode of the Old Mole,  in which Joe Clement talks with Marianne Garneau about strikes and politics of worker-power. Bill Resnick talks with Emma Lierley from Rainforest Action about forest destruction in Brazil, Indonesia, and elsewh... Read more

Kaiser Ready to Strike & Pop Mob Fools Fascists

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2019 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Kaiser healthcare workers, Jennifer Forrester and Liz Arndt, speak from the picketline about their fight for safe staffing and possible strike. Then Alyssa Pariah discusses the Popular Mobilization's SPECTACLE to fool Proud Boys and other fascist forces on August 17th. Read more

Colombian Peace Process

Airs at: Wed, 08/21/2019 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies, part two of our conversation with Sanho Tree, Director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, plus a report on the Colombian peace process. Read more

Radical Activist and Educator Erika Strauss Chavarria

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2019 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Join us in a conversation with Maryland activist and educator Erika Strauss Chavarria.  Erika brought forward several proposals at the most recent NEA Representative Assembly attempting to push the union toward taking bold positions on reparations, Palestinian rights, and o... Read more

Colombia Peace Process

Airs at: Wed, 07/24/2019 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies we get a briefing on the Colombia Peace Process from Mariela Kohon, Senior International Officer with the Trades Union Congress, and Kevin Callinan, Senior General Secretary of the labor union Forsa. Read more

Gender Equity for Grocery Workers

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2019 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
18,000 grocery workers in Oregon and SW Washington are taking strike authorization votes this summer.  Pay equity for women workers is the main battle front in this union contract campaign.  Tena Burch-Wolski and Sam Hughes, current and former Fred Meyer workers, and union ... Read more

Mindfulness As Political Factor

Airs at: Mon, 07/01/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with local activist and meditator, Guy Berliner*, about the use and abuse of mindfulness in corporate capitalist society. Does mindfulness promulgated by institutions that exploit and dominate create more attachment to the system that is driving considerab... Read more

Movie Mole: PBS "American Experience" Emma Goldman

Airs at: Mon, 07/01/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick reviews the PBS "American Experience" documentary about Emma Goldman. Drawing on the analysis of Candace Falk, of the Emma Goldman Archive Project at UC Berkeley, Bill criticizes the show's soft-pedaling of Emma's radical politics and the good sense she had for... Read more

Amazon Workers Unite

Airs at: Mon, 06/24/2019 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Two Amazon warehouse workers who are organizing for justice on the job speak with host Jamie Partridge.  Their voices are distorted to protect their identity. Read more