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Weathering the Economic Storm in Oregon

Airs at: Sun, 02/22/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

How can Oregon protect its neediest citizens as unemployment and home foreclosures increase and tax revenues fall? Michael Leachman of the Oregon Center for Public Policy talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how the state government can prevent drastic cuts in ser... Read more

Movie Moles: "The Wrestler"

Airs at: Sun, 02/15/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Our Movie Moles, Jan Haaken and Denise Morris, find metaphors for working class life in the drama of wrestling as portrayed in The Wrestler. Read more

Economic Crisis as a Response to Class Struggle

Airs at: Tue, 02/10/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

Radical scholars of political economy George Caffentzis & Silvia Federici of the Midnight Notes Collective join us live in-studio. How are the economic crisis and bailouts a response to class struggle? What does capital hope to achieve with this crisis? How does the cris... Read more

Interview with the creators of "We've Got Time To Help"

Airs at: Thu, 02/05/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Bread and Roses

Are you one of the estimated 400,000 people unemployed in Oregon who has some extra time on your hands? Bridget B. hosted another segment of Bread and Roses on KBOO 90.7FM Friday, February 6, 2009 at 6pmPST. She introduces you to the creators of We've Got Time To Help, a b... Read more

Racism and the Economic Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

People of color and especially immigrants have faced attempts to blame them for the economic crisis and to shift even more of the suffering onto their backs. Well-read Red Frann Michel exposes these attacks in this commentary. You can read it and find many links to her so... Read more

The Understimulating Stimulus Package

Airs at: Sun, 02/08/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

There is no way the stimulus package now being negotiated in congress is going to plug the leaks in the rapidly sinking economy. Economist Michael Perlman explains why in this coversation with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick. Perlman is the author of many books, most recently ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 2, 2009

Airs at: Sun, 02/01/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Hosted by labor historians Laurie Mercier and Norm Diamond, this Old Mole show focuses on the great Seattle General Strike of 1919. Norm and Laurie discuss this model of workers power, not just to shut a city down, but to run it without bosses. Bill Resnick talks with ... Read more

Seattle's General Strike, 1919

Airs at: Sun, 02/01/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

This is the 90th Anniversary of the Seattle General Strike in which workers closed down the city -- except for essential services which they ran themselves with no help from management. Labor Historians (and Old Moles)Laurie Mercier and Norm Diamond discuss those events ... Read more

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Airs at: Sun, 01/04/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Labor Radio

Join host Bill Zimmerman as he discusses the AUTO BAILOUT with MARK BRENNER Director of LaborNotes. Do auto workers make $70 per hour? Read more

KGW Journalists Complain of Dangerous Working Conditions

Airs at: Wed, 01/21/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

THE UNION REPRESENTING PHOTO-JOURNALISTS THAT WORK FOR KGW AND BELO-CORPORATION HAVE ISSUED A BULLETIN ALERTING THE PUBLIC TO THE DANGERS THAT PHOTO-JOURNALISTS FACE WHEN WORKING ON LIVE NEWS TRUCKS. Read more