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The Need to Work Less

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from an article by David Spencer, entitled “The Need to Work Less is a Matter of Life and Death,” about the impossible demands on workers’ time extracted by the capitalist economy. David Spencer is a Professor of Economics and Political Economy at  Unive... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 11, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 06/11/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel hosts this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour with segments on: From Asylum to Prison: Bill Resnick talks with Dr. Anne E. Parsons about her forthcoming work From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945. In... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for May 28, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode  of the Old Mole: Building a Healthy Neighborhood in Cully: Bill Resnick interviews Carolina Iraheta and Tony DeFalco of the organization Verde. Civilization and Our Discontents: Clayton Morgareidge comments about how the comforts of modern ... Read more

8 hours for what we will

Airs at: Tue, 05/08/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Dr. Eric Loomis joins Abe and Joe to discuss the past and future of organized labor in the U.S. During America’s earlier Gilded Age, the working classes faced formidable establishment opposition — including a conservative and pro-business Supreme Court. Abe and Joe are ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour April 9th, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 04/09/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This Episode of The Old Mole Variety Hour is hosted by Denise Morris and includes Bill Resnick talk with Chuck Collins is an author and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common... Read more

Educators in Oklahoma are rising up!

Airs at: Mon, 04/09/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
As educators enter their second week of  historic walkouts in Oklahoma, we talk with Matt Miller.  Matt is a 4th year teacher in Oklahoma and speaks with us about what it's been like to be a teacher leading up to and during the walkout. Read more

Be Your Own Tyrannical Boss

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Today’s form of capitalism diminishes and harms us in ways we may not even notice, as discussed by Meagan Day in her piece “Under Neoliberalism, You Can Be Your Own Tyrannical Boss.” Clayton Margareidge reads an edited version of her article, which is posted on the Jacob... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 2, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Old Mole, and we will hear: Israel's War Against Gaza: Why the Israelis are attacking Gaza again; Founding Myths—Founding Crimes: What might happen when a nation's founding myths turn into founding crimes Climate Change Acti... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 26, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier hosts this episode of the Old Mole and presents these pieces: Bill Resnick interviews Phyllis Bennis about U.S. entanglements with Saudi Arabia, Israel, Russia, and the proxy wars in the Middle East. Larry Bowlden reviews Rene Denfeld’s novel, The Child Fi... Read more

Pacific NW Labor History Conference 2018

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier speaks with Conor Casey, labor archivist at the University of Washington. They discuss the April 7 Pacific Northwest Labor History Association conference in Seattle, and how the Labor Archives attempts to preserve and share the region’s laboring and activi... Read more