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Steelworkers Organize in Salem & Albany

Airs at: Mon, 01/28/2019 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Steelworkers at the Albany ATI Cast Products, metal fabrication plant are organizing a union FOR THE SEVENTH TIME !  After hundreds of Albany ATI Steelworkers at a different plant were locked out for over a year, killing the last Cast Products union drive, workers at thi... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 28, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 01/28/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel hosts this episode, which features these segments: 1. Dan Jaffee speaks with Alejandro Queral, Executive Director of the Oregon Center for Public Policy, about the legacy of fiscal austerity in Oregon, and the possibilities for raising substantial new corp... Read more

Ep 78. It Takes A Village To Organize A TED Talk ft.TEDxPortlandStateUniversity

Airs at: Tue, 01/22/2019 at 12:00am - Thu, 01/31/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Village Vibes Podcast
ICYMI— our very own Bae of Life Brittain will be delivering the talks to end all Tedx Talks! So this week, we had Sasheen, Abi, and Ethan from Portland State come thru the studio to tell us more about the event and #movingforward. Listen for laughs and to hear more infor... Read more

Rent speculation and the selling (off) of Portland

Airs at: Wed, 01/23/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Looking at Portland’s economy as a microcosm of speculative capitalism is a great way to examine the extractive mechanisms of the real estate market. The most recent boom/bust cycle has completely divorced land value from land taxes and rental rates, and the rich s... Read more

Movie Moles: Roma

Airs at: Mon, 01/21/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris and new Movie Mole, Victoria Saucedo review Roma. Directed by Alfonso Cuaron, Roma has been at the center of much discussion and debate for it's fictionalized portrayal of Cuaron's middle class childhood with his mother and nanny at the center of the films ... Read more

Green New Deal: a Green Party vision

Airs at: Mon, 01/21/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Howie Hawkins, New York gubinatorial candidate for the Green party, about the renewed political agitation for a Green New Deal within and without the party. Read more

White Supremacy and Capitalism: twin evils

Airs at: Mon, 01/21/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared the trifecta of racism, militarism and capitalism as the great problem facing humanity. Old Mole Clayton Morgareidge considers two of those, capitalism and racism, and how as dominant power structures they came to be through each ... Read more

Capital Abandons Ship

Airs at: Mon, 01/14/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
What if much of what we now call ‘neo-liberalism’ – deregulation, inequality, and massive transfers of wealth to the wealthy—is  really the result of the corporate elites having fully accepted the reality of catastrophic climate decades ago? Clayton Morgareidge explores ... Read more

The Dream of Revolution: Robin Kelley

Airs at: Tue, 01/15/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  In some ways Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered twice. First by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis and then by killing his revolutionary message. Today, King is largely remembered with special holiday sales. His vision of radical revolution muted. He posed a specia... Read more

Climate Change and System Change

Airs at: Mon, 12/31/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Joe Clement reflects on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report saying we have a little over a decade to dramatically change every part of society to constrain global warming to 1.5 degrees Centigrade. Will a Green New Deal make a difference? Only, Joe ar... Read more