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Our year-end wrap-up show. Plus: predictions for 2012

Airs at: Tue, 12/27/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris  It's a grab bag of topics on Abe and Joe's end-of-the-year show. Plus: predictions for 2012.   Read more

Music for the Working-Class turns One Year Old

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Joe Clement, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, talks with three other Wobblies - Noah, Tomás & Ash - about Music for the Working-Class, a labor-themed music event with scheduled performances and sing-alongs. It happens every last Wednesday of the month at th... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour December 26th

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts and we hear:  Bill Resnick interviews Angela McWinney and Terren Connolly. Well Read Read Clayton Morgareidge reads an essay about the new people power. Joe Clement interviews three members of the IWW about Music for the Working-Class at... Read more

Presswatch for 12-15-2011

Airs at: Thu, 12/15/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Topics include the situation in Iraq, the Jazz timber sale in the Bull Run Watershed, a letter from port truck drivers andf listener calls. Read more

OCCUPY THE POST OFFICE D19

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
The Postmaster General has announced the imminent closure of 41 rural post offices in Oregon.  The PMG claims the postal service must shrink due to its financial crisis, but he is restricted by law from closing post offices for "economic reasons".  The Rural Organizing Proj... Read more

Kevin Card talks about the crisis facing the U.S. Postal Service.

Airs at: Tue, 12/20/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris Kevin Card, president of the Oregon State Association of Letter Carriers, joins Abe and Joe to discuss the crisis facing the U.S. Postal Service. Also, Joe fills us in on the history of labor in the United States and the state of organiz... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this Old Mole episode which surveys the Occupy movement; the differences between the US and the UK labor movements; workers' struggles in our  broken food industry; and an implausible story about a poisoned husband.   For information about our them... Read more

Working in the Food Industry

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The system that puts food on our tables is broken and corrupt.  The Food Chain Workers’ Alliance is a coalition of worker-based organizations whose members plant, harvest, process, pack, transport, prepare, serve, and sell food.  In this conversation with director Joann Lo,... Read more

Labor Action: US v UK

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 A few weeks ago, British public employees mounted the biggest general strike  since the 1920s.  Why have we seen nothing like that from unions in the US?  Joe Clement introduces and then comments on what labor journalist Mike Elk had to say about this question.  Read more

How GM Kicks Occupationally Disabled Workers to the Curb in Colombia

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
GM assembly workers in Colombia suffer occupational disabilities resulting from outdated equipment and production methods, then the company forces them out of their jobs.  The workers and their families fight back by occupying a spot right across the street from the US emba... Read more