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Finance Smurf

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reviews Finance Smurf, the last of the original Smurf comics written by Pierre Gulliford (aka "Peyo"). Finance Smurf, written in 1992, is a sharp indictment of money, and shows the smurfs' world turned upside down when one of the smurfs institutes a human-like e... Read more

Voices from Anacortes Protests

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  In the first of a two-part series, this week Desiree Hellegers shares field recordings she made in Anacortes, WA where dozens of kayaktivists were arrested for protesting the Tesoro fossil fuel plant recently.  You can find her article about recent protests, "'Energy Wit... Read more

Burgerville Workers Union Fights Poverty

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2016 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Activists from the newly formed Burgerville Workers Union will share their stories and their demands for a $5 raise, affordable healthcare, fair scheduling and union recognition. Read more

Voting No Confidence

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2016 at 9:45am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
      Frann Michel reports on faculty votes of no confidence at the University of Wisconsin and many other places, and some of the issues to which these votes are responding.   Just as workers have risen up to demand fifteen dollars an hour and a union, just as resid... Read more

Radical Poet Steve Bloom

Airs at: Mon, 04/25/2016 at 9:00am - 9:15am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    On the Old Mole Variety Hour, Bill Resnick talks to Steve Bloom, a worker, a poet, a Marxist intellectual who never entered the academy. In his writings, Steve Bloom has been discussing the sea-change in U.S. political consciousness, such that people discuss the 99% a... Read more

KBOO and the Center for Intercultural Organizing Criminalization Podcast

The Center for Intercultural Organizing and KBOO Community Radio, with support from Oregon Humanities, has created a podcast that focuses on addressing the questions of how our communities define “crime” and “criminals”, the effects of labeling communities as “criminal”, an... Read more

Instafab Iron Workers On Strike Over a Year

Airs at: Mon, 04/25/2016 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Non union workers at the Instafab Company have been on strike since February 2015 for better working conditions, fair pay, and respectful treatment at work. Last week, the company was fined by the Washington State Bureau of Labor and Industry $30,000 for safety violations a... Read more

Well-read Red: Black Study, Black Struggle

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel points listeners to a forum in Boston Review on "Black Study, Black Struggle," featuring statements by Robin D.G. Kelley and responses by Keeanga Yamatta-Taylor and others. She recommends the conversation to anyone interested in student Black Lives Matter  acti... Read more

Women Workers at Lexmark's Juárez Maquila Fight for an Independent Union, Fair Wages,& Their Jobs

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
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Las Trabajadores de Lexmark en Ciudad Juárez Luchan para Sindicato, Salario, y Empleo

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
En Ciudad Juárez, las trabajadores mexicanas de la empresa estadounidense Lexmark luchan por un sindicato independiente, salarios dignos, y sus empleos - la empresa las despidieron por razón de su actividad en defensa de sus derechos laborales. Están en plantón frente a la ... Read more