Economy

Old Mole Variety Hour October 29th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 10/29/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Iven Hale hosts this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with Marxist scholar Leo Panich about resisting global capitalism Joe Clement talks with Gina of the Portland Action Lab about November 3rd's planned anti-austerity protes... Read more

Movie Moles review Maquilapolis

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss the documentary Maquilapolis (2006), its collaborative production and innovative style, and its presentation of the struggles and modest triumphs of Tijuana factory workers and community environmental activists in the years since NA... Read more

Open Reservoirs: Rochester receives reprieve while Portland plows ahead.

Airs at: Fri, 10/19/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

Normal 0 The city of Rochester, New York recently received a ten-year reprieve from compliance with federal regulations requiring the covering of their open reservoirs. Rochester requested the delay from the EPA based on economic hardship, citing a forty four percent... Read more

Oh Noes! Stephanie Coontz on "the end of men hypothesis"

Airs at: Mon, 10/15/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Stephanie Coontz about the "end of men hypothesis" that she argues conflates two trends: greater equality and opportunity for women, on the one hand, and the all-around explosion of inequality in the USA that hits men particularly hard because o... Read more

NEWS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS DAY "A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: BEYOND ELECTORAL POLITICS"

7 am to 8 pm on Friday October 12th The best of KBOO’s news, talks and interviews: In this special day of programming KBOO presents authors, activists, analysts and idealists who look beyond the current political rhetoric to the real basics of what it will take to bu... Read more

WRR: Trans-Pacific Partnership

For the Old Mole Variety Hour, October 1, 2012 Oppose the TPP: http://stopthetrap.net/ http://www.publicknowledge.org/Tell-White-House-Ensure-OpennessTPP-IP-Chapter With the Presidential debates coming up, there are a few things we can remember are not going to be discu... Read more

If Sharks Were Men...

Airs at: Mon, 10/01/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

After an amusing reading of Bertolt Brecht's short-story "If Sharks Were Men", Joe Clement comments on the unfortunately enduring message it imparts about class-exploitation and imperial war. The original video from which the audio has been used can be found here. Read more

Michael Zweig: US Labor Against The War

Airs at: Mon, 10/01/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Laurie Mercier talks with Michael Zweig about US Labor Against The War, a reform-coalition of hundreds of unions, central labor councils and state federations who are united in opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are organizing workers to put pressure o... Read more

Consumer Rage: this is your labor movement under capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 10/01/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement reads "Consumer Rage: this is your labor movement under capitalism", an essay from PruningShears.us by MadTownAnnie. They criticize the appeal to lost consumer value made by those critical of the NFL's recent dispute with and lockout of its referees over reti... Read more

Well-read Red: Trans-Pacific Partnership

Airs at: Mon, 10/01/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Well-read Red, Frann Michel, points out that there are a lot of things that won't get discussed in the presidential debates because both of the major candidates actually agree on them. After a litany of silent pacts, including Iran, campaign contributions, ignoring globa... Read more