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Old Mole Variety Hour for December 29, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 12/29/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken hosts this episode and we hear: In addition to music and spoken word pieces, Jan Haaken comments on the relationship between Kwanzaa's values and socialist struggle in Africa Bill Resnick talks Karen Connelly and Terra O'Neill about the progressive case f... Read more

Sleep Dealer and Work Without Workers

Airs at: Mon, 12/29/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads from Jason Read's review of Sleep Dealer, which he wrote for The Portland Phoenix. Sleep Dealer is a recent sci-fi dystopia in Spanish about a near future where robots are operated from afar by desperate Mexican workers. Jason writes about how he got to ta... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 22, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 12/22/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this show dealing with several struggles for freedom and respect against forces of repression and exploitation.  To hear the whole show, click on the play button below. For individual segments, follow these links: 1. Walmart worker and organizer Martha Sell... Read more

Inside Walmart

Airs at: Mon, 12/22/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Since 2003, Martha Sellers has worked at the Walmart store in Paramount, a working class suburb east of Los Angeles. She the lead Our Walmart organizer in her store, has been twice arrested in protests. Here she talks with Bill Resnick about Walmart’s responses to the prote... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 1, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 12/01/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this week's episode of The Old Mole Variety Hour which includes these segments: • Bill Resnick interviews PCUN co-founder Larry Kleinman about immigration politics. • Frann Michel reads an article by Robin D.G. Kelley • Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker ta... Read more

Move over Keynes, Make Room for Marx

Airs at: Mon, 12/01/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads an article by Carl Finamore,"Move over Keynes, Make Room for Marx: Radical Ideas for Radical Times." [Image from http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Karl_Marx.jpg] Read more

Larry Kleinman on Immigration

Airs at: Mon, 12/01/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Larry Kleinman. Kleinman is co-founder of the Oregon Farm Workers union PCUN and is now working nationally on the immigrants rights struggle and preparing for changes in the law. They talk about Obama's recent very controversial Executive Order as we... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 24, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 11/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker leads us through today's variety of left analysis and commentary. Here's the line-up: 1.  Journalist Dawn Paley reveals the underlying motives for the so-called drug war in Latin America. 2.  How consumerism created by advertising dumbs us down. 3.  How working... Read more

Consumerism And the 9 to 5 Job

Airs at: Mon, 11/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
"The culture of the eight-hour workday is big business’ most powerful tool for keeping people in this same dissatisfied state where the answer to every problem is to buy something," according to David Cain's blog post.  Clayton Morgareidge reads and adds further commentary.... Read more

LABOR RIGHTS VERSUS FREE TRADE: DOCKWORKERS' STRUGGLE IN BUENAVENTURA, COLOMBIA

Airs at: Mon, 11/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
AN INTERVIEW WITH JHON JAIRO CASTRO, PRESIDENT OF THE BUENAVENTURA CHAPTER OF THE UNIÓN PORTUARIA OF COLOMBIA. THE PREDOMINANTLY AFRO-COLOMBIA CITY OF BUENAVENTURA, COLOMBIA'S LARGEST PORT, SUFFERS CRUSHING POVERTY AND VIOLENCE DESPITE THE WEALTH FLOWING ACROSS THE DOCKS. E... Read more