Economy

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No Steel Today

Airs at: Sat, 08/31/2019 at 6:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Swing 'n' Country
  Steel is the material that makes infrastructure, construction and transportation possible. Without steel, we'd have no cars, bikes, buses, trains or planes to move us around. More importantly, we'd have no steel guitar. This instrument has long been synonymous with Count... Read more

Kaiser Ready to Strike & Pop Mob Fools Fascists

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2019 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Kaiser healthcare workers, Jennifer Forrester and Liz Arndt, speak from the picketline about their fight for safe staffing and possible strike. Then Alyssa Pariah discusses the Popular Mobilization's SPECTACLE to fool Proud Boys and other fascist forces on August 17th. Read more

Gay Shame: Fighting Techies and YIMBYs in the Bay Area; 3rd Wednesday w/ Portland Assembly

Airs at: Wed, 08/21/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Hyper-gentrification and the displacement that goes along with it aren’t just a Portland phenomenon; the same people and companies are driving it in cities across the country. Today Sara and Jonathan from Portland Assembly will talk to Ralowe Ampu and Toshio Meronek f... Read more

Capitalism as Organized Narcissism

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2019 at 9:00am - Mon, 08/12/2019 at 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge explains the narcissism of capital and how capitalism produces narcissists to be in charge.  You can read this piece by going here. Read more

One Gun

Airs at: Tue, 08/06/2019 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  Vinyl Pajama Party
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The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 5, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Mole and we will hear these segment Bill Resnick interviews Catherine Sameh about political life in Iran today, and we learn how different it is from the media portrayal of a "terrorist" state. Jan Haaken talks with Ameli Bo... Read more

The Heather McCoy Show

Airs at: Thu, 07/25/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  The Heather McCoy Show
Heather talks to John Vilanova and Kyle Cassidy authors of the study: I'm Not the Drummer's Girlfriend, published in the June 2019 edition of Journal of Popular Music Studies.  I'm Not the Drummer's Girlfriend takes a look into the world of the touring bands' "Merch Girl," ... Read more

False Narratives About Housing Economics

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with MK, local socialist and housing rights data activist sometimes heard on Wednesday Talk Radio, about artificial scarcity, capitalist over-production, market myths, and other false narratives regarding the housing system. What will it take for us to see... Read more

Yellow Vests: A New French Revolution?

Airs at: Mon, 07/15/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick reports on the yellow vest movement in France -- who they are, their politics and demands, their significance, and what might be borrowed for a similar uprising here.  Photo by Thomas Bresson Read more

More than "Just the Facts"

Airs at: Mon, 07/15/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge shows how some philosophers reduce the world to the totality of facts and regard all feelings as subjective with nothing to say about reality. Capital goes even further, reducing all value to the value of money.  You can read this commentary here. Howev... Read more