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500 Workers Vs. a Multinaltional Corporation: the ILWU takes on Rio Tinto in Boron, California

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Craig Merrilees of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union talks about fighting the Rio Tinto lockout in Boron, California. Read more

Union Democracy: Teamsters for a Democratic Union's longevity, and Winning One-Member, One-Vote in the BLET

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
At the TDU convention Ken Paff talks about that rank-and-file group's accomplishements over the years, and we hear from Hugh Sawyer and Ron Kaminkow about how members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen won one-member, one-vote elections to choose their ... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 11/11/10 - Susan Banyas and The Hillsboro Story

Airs at: Thu, 11/11/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
#cg_msg_content #cg_msg_content #cg_msg_content #cg_msg_content div { margin: 0px; } A celebration of civil rights: Susan Banyas and The Hillsboro Story Two months after the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision legally ending school segregation, the county engi... Read more

More Talk Radio on 11/08/10

Airs at: Mon, 11/08/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with labor organizer, writer and radical theorist John Cronan Jr. He will be speaking at Laughing Horse Books on Thursday, November 11th at 6PM with activist and student orgainzer Casey Asprooth-Jackson.  John Cronan is a restaur... Read more

Positively Revolting on 11-05-10: The Spirit of Rebellion

Airs at: Fri, 11/05/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Throughout November, Ani and Lyn will celebrate resistance to our current culture of corporate rule and dominator mentality.  Join us for a discussion about breaking through the dominator paradigm through joyous action.  If resistance isn’t fun, we aren’t doing it right. I... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 11-04-2010 What were voters thinking?

Airs at: Thu, 11/04/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
#cg_msg_content #cg_msg_content #cg_msg_content div { margin: 0px; } What were voters thinking? A look at midterm election results Voters were angry, distrustful of political insiders and worried about government spending - at least that's the narrative provided by the m... Read more

It's Election Day! Abe and Joe bring you the lowdown.

Airs at: Tue, 11/02/2010 at 12:00am
 It's Election Day! Abe and Joe bring you the lowdown. As the Republic lurches through the first Election Day of the post-Citizens United era, Abe and Joe run down the races and ballot measures in Portland and around the nation.   Read more

October 25 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 10/25/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Hosted by Bill Resnick, this program features the French national anthem La Marseillaise which celebrates the victory of the people over the aristocracy in the revolution of 1789.  Against this background, Bill interviews economist Richard Wolff about the class struggles g... Read more

Getting us All Back to Work

Airs at: Mon, 10/25/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Today's Well-read Red Joe Clement comments on and reads from a piece by Greg Moses, "A Public Option for Jobs."  There are needs to be met and people without work: why can't these two things fit together?  This piece appeared on Counterpunch. Read more

Class Struggles in France, 2010

Airs at: Mon, 10/25/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 The French working class has been in the news for massive protests of austerity moves to limit their pensions, but the issues are much more profound.  Economist Professor Richard Wolff has been studying France for many years, and he talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resn... Read more