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What is a Just Transition?

Airs at: Thu, 09/07/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  It’s a framework for looking at how environmental and climate justice can address longstanding economic inequality – bringing all movements for justice under a single unified frame. Oregon's Just Transition Assembly happens over Labor Day weekend with over 200 delega... Read more

UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: A Labor Day Special

Airs at: Mon, 09/04/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  A documentary on the idea of universal basic income: what is it, and what effect might it have on society? Using expert interviews, field recordings, street interviews, and lot's of great music.   What if you were paid just for being alive? Just imagine " you are given... Read more

Hurricane Irma Predicted to Go North, Up the East Coast

Airs at: Thu, 08/31/2017 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Hurricanes have recently been pounding the East Coast. Harvey has already destroyed countless lives, literally and figuratively. Recently however, NOAA has taken note of a newly formed hurricane that is already a dangerous Category 3 out in the Atlantic. They predict tha... Read more

Transgender Employment Discrimination

Airs at: Mon, 08/28/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Transgender activists Alyssa Pagan and Brooklynn Clark explain why they are demanding that the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries establish programs to correct the rampant employment discrimination against transgender workers. Read more

Community Rights US aims to protect rights of people & nature, end corporate rule

Airs at: Wed, 08/23/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
Corporate abuses against workers and the environment are enshrined in "corporate rights," but these are being challenged by the rapidly growing Community Rights movement. Gaining traction across the country, the community rights movement aims not just for reforms against... Read more

Ethnic Studies and Academic Freedom

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Join us as we discuss the struggle for educators to make their classes culturally relevant and empowering.  Today we are joined by Bryan Chu of the Portland Association of teachers and hear  recorded excerpts of an interview with Curtis Acosta, former Mexican American St... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 7, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 08/07/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this edition of the Mole and we hear these segments: 1. Professor and activist Kerry Taylor talks with Bill Resnick about the fight for dignity and a $15 minimum wage in the South 2. The Left and the Law takes on the Senate bill that would outlaw support... Read more

The Fight for Dignity and 15 in South Carolina

Airs at: Mon, 08/07/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Kerry Taylor talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how low wage workers in South Carolina are fighting for the $15 minimum wage and for justice and dignity. Kerry Taylor is an associate professor of history at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. He speciali... Read more

Sex, Sex Work, and the City; and the Prexy lashes out at trans people.

Airs at: Tue, 08/08/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
    This week, I'll be talking with local sex worker activist and frequent Preference guest Red. We'll discuss how sex, sex work, sociality, and safety play out in urban environments. The starting points for our conversation: our own experiences, and Samuel Delany's es... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 7, 2017

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill     Resnick hosts tomorrow’s show, and here are the headlines: Low wage workers across the South are fighting for the $15 minimum wage and for justice and dignity. Music plays a role in the struggle. U.S. Congress tries to outlaw support for the Boycott, Divestment ... Read more