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Health Care Debate: What Next?

Airs at: Mon, 12/21/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
How should workers respond to the disappointing Senate debate over health care? Three of organized labor's leading single payer advocates---Cindy Young of the California School Employees Association, Matt Schlobohm of the Maine State AFL-CIO, and Tom Leedham of Teamsters L... Read more

Voices from the Edge: What's behind Oregon's domestic violence murders-suicides?

Airs at: Thu, 12/10/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Fourteen Oregonians died last month in five murder-suicides and one attempted murder suicide. Why this sudden outbreak now of men using guns to murder their spouses, ex-spouses and themselves when domestic violence homicides in Oregon have been on the decline? In 1997, 22 d... Read more

December 7 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Hosted by Denise Morris, this show discusses how to make jobs part of the economic recovery, the Afghanistan "surge," student protests against the tuition hikes in California, and how homophobia begins at home and what to do about it.  For information about our theme music... Read more

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 The Economic Policy Institute has a 5-point plan for making jobs part of the economic recovery, and a way to pay for it.  The EPI's Josh Bivins explains what it requires in this interview with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.  Bivins  is the author of Everybody Wins Except for... Read more

Million Worker March movement/ Colombia Human Rights

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Host Jamie Partridge talks with Clarence Thomas, co-chair of the Million Worker March movement, a leader of the African American Longshore Coalition, and former Secretary Treasurer of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Longshore and Warehouse Union – ILWU local 10 about taking wo... Read more

WTO - What It Really Costs

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The WTO works  to protect large corporations from having to bear the real costs of their production -- forcing the rest of us to pay with our health and the quality of our lives.  Magrete Strand of the Sierra Club and the Blue Green Alliance explains how it works in this co... Read more

Round Table Discussion

Airs at: Mon, 11/16/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Toby Greene of Laborers #483, Harry Olsen of PHOENIX Rising Transitions, and Michael Richards, an ex-convict who worked under a DOC contract, discussed some of the work done by convicts. Read more

November 23 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Do higher taxes make for fewer jobs -- or more?  Is Congress debating real healthcare reform -- or just another corporate bailout?  Is PTSD a good way to think about how people are  affected by violence?   This show takes on these questions, with host Tom Becker, Old Mole r... Read more

Taxes and Jobs

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Do higher taxes on businesses and wealthy individuals drive down investment and cost us jobs?  Not at all, according to Karen Kraut of United for a Fair Economy in this wide-ranging discussion with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.  In fact, higher taxes keep surplus wealth out... Read more

Wake Up and Smell The Boot Polish

Airs at: Tue, 11/10/2009 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris Today, Joe is by himself, and he opens the show with a reading of an article from August of 1993 that was printed in a small independent rag called PDXS.  The article was entitled "Wake Up And Smell The Boot Polish," and warned us of a pe... Read more