Economy

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Old Mole Variety Hour 3 March 2014

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear about recent events in Venezuela, a 2009 documentary about pharmeceutical profits and female sexual dissatisfaction, a discussion of the meanings of work beyond waged labor, and an upcoming performance about young women negotiat... Read more

Mark Weisbrot on Venezuela

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Mark Weisbrot about recent upheavals in Ukraine and especially in Venezuela, where the right-wing protesters lack the leverage to oust the recently elected government.   Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Centre for Economic and Policy Research i... Read more

Survey Analyzes Possibilities for "Co-Existence" Between GMO and Non-GMO Crops

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
 The USDA Committee on 21st Century Biotechnology has released policy recommendations for what they call the “co-existence” of genetically modified (GMO) and non-GMO crops.  The policies were necessitated by a lack of data regarding GMO crop contamination and its effect ... Read more

US Job Growth Subsidies Favor Corporate Tax Breaks Over Small Businesses

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
A new report on job growth in the U-S suggests that the bulk of subsidies being granted to business to spur job growth go to large corporate tax breaks, rather than small, local businesses. Leigh McIlvane is a research analyst with Good Jobs First, who issued the report.... Read more

Portland Student Union activist, Kate Barnes, on PPS/PAT struggle

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill talks with Kate Barnes, a student at Cleveland High School and activist with the Portland Student Union. They talk about what's ailing Portland's schools from the student perspective (something the mainstream media does not cover) and how they are struggling alongsi... Read more

Elizabeth Thiel, PPS Teacher and Parent, on PAT/PPS contract struggle

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Elizabeth Thiel, a Portland Public School teacher and parent, about recent contract struggles. They talk about why they wanted to go on strike. She says teachers want to maintain and increase their ability to their job well. This means smaller cla... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 24 2014

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole and we hear a double report from Portland Public School teachers and student activists, a review of the fiction of Anita Brookner, as well as a discussion about the politics of Pete Seeger and his music. Bill Resnick talks with Eliz... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 17 2014

Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick hosts this membership-drive special and we hear: Bill talk with Barbara Garson about how the 99% experience capitalism today.  Movie Moles, Joe Clement & Jan Haaken, review the PBS documentary "Pete Seeger: the power of song". Well-read Red Fran... Read more

Well-read Red: Neoliberalism and Education, Portland State Edition

Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Well-read Red Frann Michel reads from Henry Giroux about neoliberalism, connecting the more unsustainable than usual mode of capitalist ideology and worldmaking to the defunding and alround attack on universities. In the latter half, she focuses on class struggle at Port... Read more

Barbara Garson: how the 99% live during the Great Recession

Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2014 at 12:00am
Bill Resnick talks with Barbara Garson about writing people's conscious and not so conscious experiences of exploitation, domination and precariousness in the 20th and 21st Centuries. She's the author of  "Down The Up Escalator: how the 99% live in the Great Recession", ... Read more