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Worker Cooperatives: Left Perspectives from Norm Diamond and Bill Resnick

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick and Norm Diamond discuss worker-cooperative businesses and their significance for the left. Do they prefigure the democratic production of socialism and empower participants? Or are they fragile small businesses that either become as cutthroat as other capitali... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 7 2014

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Laurie Mercier interviews Peter Hart about his writing on media revisionism, scapegoating, and the Iraq War. Bill Resnick and Arun Gupta discuss the $15 minimum wage in Seattle and its implications for further class struggle. Clayt... Read more

The $15 Minimum Wage And The Fight Beyond

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Arun Gupta about how the $15 minimum wage ordinance that was recently passed by the City Council in Seattle came to be. Arun points out how people are agitated by the bank-bailouts, the role played by Socialist Alternative and Kshama Sawant's electio... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 30, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 06/30/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this latest report from the Old Mole, and we hear about threats to privatize our Postal Service; the contradiction between capitalism and a survivable planet; a novel about coming of age in a small town; and the music and radical politics of saxophonist Fre... Read more

Saving Our Postal Service

Airs at: Mon, 06/30/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Since the founding of the US, the postal service has delivered mail quickly and securely from any place in the country to any other place in it, all for a price anyone could afford.  Now many corporations and members of congress want to break up this birthright and hand it ... Read more

Benjamin Chavis Interview

Airs at: Mon, 06/30/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Dr. Benjamin Chavis is a civil rights pioneer. He led the NAACP in the early 90s and he was the director of the Million Man March. He is involved in a number of self empowerment initiatives including a collaboration with media mogul Russell Simmons to use hip hop as a way... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour June 23 2014

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode about neoliberal education in the Chinese context, the latest season of Orange is the New Black, We Are BRAVE (a reproductive rights & justice project aimed at serving women of color), and a proposed Communist Party of Cascadia. Bill Resn... Read more

Communist Party of Cascadia

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement speaks with two communist organizers, Stephanie Martin and Daniel Frontino Elash, about their plans to hold a meeting at Central Library 801 SW 10th (and Yamhill) on Monday June 23rd from 6-7pm in the US Bank Room. They are calling for local independent communis... Read more

Oregon Community Media: Genetically Modified Foods

Airs at: Fri, 06/27/2014 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Oregon Community Media
Oregon Community Media - Independent community radio and media working in collaboration to better serve Oregon. OCM is composed of over 20 local and independent community broadcasters. All share a commitment to community service and to keeping  local voices alive on the rad... Read more

In Depth: Norman Solomon on ExposeFacts.org and Whistleblower Protections

Airs at: Thu, 06/05/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
On the one-year anniversary of first news reports based on the disclosures of former defense contractor Edward Snowden, KBOO spoke with Norman Solomon, the director of the Insitute for Public Accuracy, about the current state of legal protection for whistleblowers in the de... Read more