Economy

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Free Fare for TriMet - Drivers and Riders Unite !

Airs at: Mon, 11/25/2019 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
"Up with Riders !" is a campaign to stop fare hikes and win expansion of fareless, decriminalized public transportation.  Hear OPAL environmental justice organizer, Gabriela Saldana-Lopez, and former ATU 757 (TriMet drivers) representative, Andrew Riley, discuss the possibi... Read more

Bolivia Uprising

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  On November 10, weeks after a hotly contested election, Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, was forced to resign in what many observers have called a coup d'etat.  Since Morales was deposed, violent clashes have erupted around the country and and a right-w... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for November 18th, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Densie Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes: Bolivia Uprising: Dan Jaffee interviews Dr. Gisela Rodriguez, a Bolivian sociologist living in Portland, about the roots of the conflict in Bolivia, the record of Evo Morales and his MAS party, and what h... Read more

New Deal lessons for the Green New Deal

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick continues his conversation from last week with Marty Hart- Lansberg on the Green New Deal and the lessons of the Roosevelt New Deal that started, haltingly in the 1930s and never pulled the US out of the Great Depression, which only ended with the great mobi... Read more

11 TRIPP-P 3Nov2019

Airs at: Sun, 11/03/2019 at 11:15pm - Thu, 11/30/2023 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
TRIPP-P episode 11 features guest Ryan Haas.   Ryan is currently a News Content Manager at OPB & audio-host of the podcast "Bundyville." He has previously worked as Editor of The World newspaper in Coos Bay, Oregon and has freelanced in Florida and the Southern Oregon coa... Read more

A Song about Class

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement presents a song by Leon Rosselson, "Who Reaps The Profits, Who Pays The Price". It’s a working class indictment of the capitalist imperative to turn everything – our lives and the earth – into money. It’s a beautiful and powerful call to overthrow that system. H... Read more

Getting to a Green New Deal

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with economist Marty Hart-Landsberg about the Green New Deal and what can be learned from Roosevelt's New Deal that started, haltingly in the 1930s and gained steam after World War II.  This is the first part of a two-part interview; Part 2 will be on nex... Read more

Talking with Pauline Park, trans activist and writer.

Airs at: Tue, 10/29/2019 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
Pauline Park, activist and author, is one of our favorite people to talk with on Preference. We've chatted in the past about censorship and queer community; and about LGBTQ solidarity with Palestinians. This week, we look forward to talking with Pauline about being an adopt... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for October 28, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Old Mole, and we hear-- Bill Resnick talks with radical economist Marty Hart-Landsberg about what we need to learn from the "old" New Deal in order to fight for a Green New Deal; Clayton Morgareidge comments on importance of m... Read more

Burgerville Workers on Strike and Grocery Workers Settle

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2019 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Fast food and grocery workers have been engaged in intense organizing and bargaining lately.  Burgerville Workers Union launched a four-store strike last Wednesday trying to force the company to substantially raise wages.  Grocery Workers, represented by the United Food and... Read more