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Charlie Brown Xmas Politics

Airs at: Mon, 12/21/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement and special guest Dennis Gravy review the classic Christmas-time cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas. They consider anti-commercialism, alienation, cultural appropriation, white supremacy, and why the "workers revolution" that seems to promise an answer to Charli... Read more

KBOO Noon News 112715

Airs at: Fri, 11/27/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Tune in every weekday at five for more local, national and international news produced by volunteer reporters in our Portland studios. Read more

Oregon AFL-CIO Convention, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 10/26/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Oregon's largest union federation, the AFL-CIO, representing over 100,000 workers, held a convention in Seaside the weekend of Oct. 23 - 25.  Labor Radio co-host Jamie Partridge, a delegate for the letter carriers union, interviews fellow delegates Amanda Hill of the nurses... Read more

Black Union Leader Addresses Oregon Labor

Airs at: Sun, 11/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Fred Redmond, a national leader of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and the A. Philip Randolph Institute, talks with Tina Turner-Morfitt, President of the Oregon chapter of the CBTU about his message to Oregon labor and his work on a  new paper: A Future for Workers: ... Read more

Labor and the Climate

Airs at: Mon, 10/05/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Uehlein talks with Bill Resnick about building a labor-environmental movement to curb global warming and save the planet. Uehlein's music is featured in the full length version of this episode of the Old Mole. He will be speaking and playing his music this Saturday, Oct... Read more

Aerial Spraying violations: Applebee Aviation license suspended

Airs at: Mon, 10/05/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Regulators from two state agencies have fined an aerial spraying company a total of almost ten thousand dollars. Applebee Aviation has been fined by the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration eighty eight hundred dollars and the state Department of Agriculture... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 28, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode on documentaries, dictatorships, the Middle East, and Marx. These are the individual segments:  Bill Resnick talks with Ismael Hossein-zadeh about events in the Middle East. Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss the new documentary ... Read more

Fear of Marx

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from Why the US Press is Afraid of Marx (and Jeremy Corbyn) by Conor Lynch in Counterpunch.   In Marx’s analysis, widespread inequality and economic instability (and to a lesser degree environmental degradation) are inherent in the capitalist system, and... Read more

Blessing Workers & Rep. Keith Ellison on Free Trade in Colombia

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
A Multi-Faith Worker Blessing, sponsored by the Faith-Labor Committee of Portland Jobs with Justice, in commemoration of Pope Francis addressing the US Congress, features talks by low wage workers and faith leaders.  In the second half of the program, US Congressman Keith E... Read more

CALLING OUT FREE TRADE: REMARKS BY REP. KEITH ELLISON IN BUENAVENTURA, COLOMBIA

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Rep.Keith Ellison (D-MN), a member of the Congressional Monitoring Group on Labor Rights in Colombia, Co-Chair of the Progressive Caucus, and member of the Black Caucus, went to Colombia to see firsthand the effects of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement and the defects ... Read more