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Movie Preview: "Pride"

Airs at: Mon, 11/12/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Denise Morris previews for us a 2014 film called “Pride” that will be featured at an upcoming DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) event. It’s the summer of 1984. Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-base... Read more

Towards Radical Reconstruction

Airs at: Mon, 11/12/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Diane Feeley, coordinator of National Organization for Women, who has devoted her life to working in the labor movement and many of the social movements for democratic socialist revolution.  They discuss how to work in movements -- like Medicare f... Read more

The Renegotiated NAFTA

Airs at: Mon, 11/05/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Dan Jaffee talks with Russell Lum about Trump's recent renegotiation of NAFTA--the 24-year old North American Free Trade Agreement--and what it means for capital, labor, and the environment. Russell Lum is Trade Justice Coordinator of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, a... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 29, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 10/29/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode, which includes: Steve Early on Police Reform: Bill Resnick talks with union activist Steve Early about reforming the police in Richmond, California. Hope, the Gender-variant Chicken: music from Bicycle Face's album, "Wonders of Female St... Read more

The University of NIKE: How Corporate Cash Bought Higher Education

Airs at: Wed, 10/24/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  The RadioActivist
This week on The RadioActivist, Joshua Hunt on his book The University of NIKE: How Corporate America Bought American Higher Education. Hosts Lisa Loving and Suzanne LaGrande will be taking your calls, the number is 503-231-8187. And we have a few activist events coming ... Read more

Unions – You Don’t Want to be Without Them Part 2

Airs at: Fri, 10/26/2018 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Valley Views
Join Host Dale Holiday for Part 2 of her conversation with Carlos Lopez.  Carlos is a City of Corvallis Employee and President of AFSCME Local 2975.  AFSCME stands for American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees – the nation’s largest and fastest growing ... Read more

Organizer Secrets & Socialist Job Fair

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Two exciting labor events coming up on Oct. 27 & Nov. 7 are a "Secrets of a Successful Organizer" training, featuring Mark Brenner, co-author of the book by the same name and past director of Labor Notes (on Oct. 27) & a Socialist Job Fair sponsored by Portland DSA (Demo... Read more

The Return of Public Ownership in the US

Airs at: Mon, 10/08/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier interviews Thomas Hanna, Research Director of the Democracy Collaborative, about democratic ownership and public banking. Hanna is author of the new book Our common wealth: The return of public ownership in the United States; a recent piece “We Need Public... Read more

Movie Review: "Killer of Sheep"

Airs at: Mon, 10/08/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Movie Moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel review the film Killer of Sheep. It’s about African-American life in Watts in the early 1970s, and one of the "100 Essential Films" of all time according to the National Society of Film Critics. The film is available at Movie Ma... Read more

The Economics of Funding Public Education

Airs at: Mon, 10/08/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Join us as we speak with Mary King of the Oregon Center for Public Policy.  Mary is a labor economist and Professor Emerita of Economics at Portland State University. She served as Chair of the PSU Economics Department, President of the PSU Chapter of the American Associ... Read more