Labor

Reshaping the Economic World Order

Airs at: Sun, 11/16/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
What needs to be done to replace the current and collapsing economic global system with something that works for all of us?   John Cavanagh, director of the Institute for  Policy Studies, talks  with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how this crisis developed and what it wi... Read more

Workers' Resistance to Occupation and Empire

Airs at: Sun, 11/09/2008 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
An interview with Jana K. Lipman, Author, Guantanamo: A Working-Class History Between Empire and Revolution.   Guantánamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantánamo is more than a U.S. naval base and prison in Cuba, it is a town, and our... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 10O, 2008

Airs at: Sun, 11/09/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
This week the Moles pay tribute to the momentous  election of last Tuesday and assess what  it might and might not mean.   We also remember the late Studs Terkel.   To  hear the whole show, use the arrow above.  For  separate  pieces, follow the links below: 1.   Bill Resni... Read more

Remembering Studs Terkel

Airs at: Tue, 11/11/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Studs Terkel, writer and radio personality, always in support of working people, died at the age of 96 last week.   Tom Becker reads tributes to him published in The Nation.  You can find the texts here and here. Read more

Assessing Obama, Part 1

Airs at: Sun, 11/09/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Old Mole's Bill Resnick talks with Malik Miah, airline machinist and writer, about workers' responses to the Obama victory and what the next four years may hold for progressives.  Miah's work appears in Against the Current and  Green Left. Read more

Sex Workers, Risk Reduction, and 82nd Avenue

Airs at: Wed, 11/05/2008 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
Prostitution-free zones designated by the City Council under Chapter 14B.30. The zones were areas in  which police had probable cause to believe a person committed prostitution  as defined in Section 14B.30.030 of city code. Offenders could be banned from the zone for a  tw... Read more

Unions and Ballot Measures

Airs at: Sun, 11/02/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Two ballot measures in Oregon would have major impact on unions.  Denise Morris and Wesley Buchholz explain. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 27, 2008

Airs at: Sun, 10/26/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, this program features discussions of bank nationalization and student anti-war actions.  We also hear a  review of three recent novels by women writers.  To hear the whole show, including music by tenor sax player Don Byas, click on the arrow ... Read more

Nationalizing Banks

Airs at: Sun, 10/26/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Teacher and writer Dan La Botz writes on economic topics in the Monthly Review.   He talks with Bill Resnick about the close  relationship between banking and government, about when and where banks have been nationalized before, and the prospects for state ownership of bank... Read more

Bailing Towards Socialism?

Airs at: Sun, 10/26/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Philosopher David Schweickart is the author of  After Capitalism, a book which puts forward a practical vision of a kind of economic democracy, a form of market socialism, that seems  ideally suited for the current economic crisis.  Clayton Morgareidge reads edited exerpts ... Read more