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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 a... Read more

Portland's Resistance: CHIEF CONCERN

Airs at: Mon, 08/07/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Guest host Linda Olson-Osterlund welcomes Greg McKelvey and James Ofsink of Portland's Resistance to discuss proposed policy changes within the Portland Police Bureau and renegotiating it's Federal settlement with the Justice Department. On July 30th Portland's Resistan... Read more

Citizens' Trade Policy

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks with Arthur Stamoulis, director of the national Citizens Trade Campaign, about trade policy. The Oregon Chapter will be holding a Town Hall on NAFTA on Thursday August 10  at 7:30pm at AFSCME Council 75 (6025 E Burnside St.).   Read more

Anthony Rogers-Wright talks about The Leap on 5th Monday Labor Radio

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
  Does it seem like the forces of “me,” personified by Trump, are increasingly powerful, while the forces of “we,” exemplified by the organized labor movement, are increasingly marginalized?  Naomi Klein believes so, and in addition to writing great books like The Shock Do... Read more

International Worker Solidarity & Anti-Nike Action

Airs at: Fri, 07/28/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Join ani and Lyn in a conversation about the conditions of workers at Nike factories and an action that's happening this Saturday to tell Nike that we will not accept the exploitation of workers. International action has been called for Saturday, July 29th- in Portland the ... Read more

An Interview with D Pei Wu

Airs at: Fri, 07/28/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
  Our interview with organizer D Pei Wu is finally here for your ears! D is an organizer and former head of Jobs with Justice in Portland. We talk to them to find out about their journey in organizing and find out why the labor movement is important to them.  Read more

Naomi Klein in conversation with Jo Ann Hardesty

Airs at: Thu, 07/27/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Naomi Klein joins Jo Ann Hardesty in a wide ranging and engaging discussion.  Recorded in Beaverton at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing. “This is one attempt to uncover how we got to this surreal political moment. It is also an attempt to predict how, under cover o... Read more

An Indigenous Economic Model: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Airs at: Tue, 07/25/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The existing economic system in most countries is a kind of state capitalism. It produces enormous inequalities. Its extraction practices are environmentally destructive. Perhaps indigenous models provide a viable alternative. Chief Seattle was a Susquamish chief in what... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 24, 2017

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  On this week’s Old Mole Variety Hour we continue to explore strategies for resistance in the age of Trump. First, we turn to history to understand how the far right has gained so much power and whether the past offers lessons for current and future struggles. Bill Res... Read more

Democrats Got Paid, Tenants Got Betrayed

Airs at: Mon, 07/24/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Sammy Black and Ethan Harrison, leaders of the Portland Tenants United, discuss the recent betrayal by the "Democratic Landlord Senators of Salem" (the title of a new song by David Rovick), who got paid big landlord lobbyist bucks, gutted House Bill 2004, then still refused... Read more