Economy

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A Peace Worker Talks About the Crisis in Burundi

Airs at: Thu, 06/04/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  News In Depth
Yesterday in Burundi, the government announced that presidential and parliamentary elections planned for this Friday will be indefinitely postponed.           The announcement follows more than a month of unrest as protesters and police have clashed in the capital of Bujumb... Read more

Debt as Art

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Cassie Thornton about her use of debt for the last 7 years as a subject for her art-work. She describes how she's sought to concretize debt, explore debt through hypnotherapeutic visualization exercises with others, and in the end how she's gotten inv... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 1, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Joe Clement hosts! We hear music from Blind Boy Paxon and Blue Scholars! The show includes... Bill Resnick talks with Al Bradbury, a former KBOO Labor Radio host, who now works for the monthly labor magazine, Labor Notes. Larry Bowlden reviews "Intrusions", by ... Read more

Richard Rothstein Interview

Airs at: Wed, 05/27/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Richard Rothstein is a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute.  He has written extensively on the effect of inequitable education on black and minority children in the US.  His latest piece for the EPI, focuses on the complicity of the Federal government in c... Read more

Warrior Capitalism: Middle class? What middle class?

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker shares Jack Smith's article from Counterpunch.  It's about the disappearance of class terms, i.e., ruling class, upper class, working class, in political discussion by both politicians and journalists and the political consequences of that. Now the author contend... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 11, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 05/11/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick hosts this membership-drive special (and hence the shorter length of the show) and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Malik Miah about the Black Lives Matter movement Frann Michel and Hyung Nam discuss Everyday Rebellion, a cross-media documentary of ... Read more

Fight For $15 NOW

Airs at: Mon, 05/11/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Justin Kertson-Norton about the Fight for $15 movement. They consider the progress they've made in the national and local conversation around the minimum wage, and Bill wonders whether a more radical vision of worker control on the job and in the eco... Read more

Everyday Rebellion

Airs at: Mon, 05/11/2015 at 12:00am
Hyung Nam and Frann Michel discuss Everyday Rebellion, a "cross-media documentary about creative forms of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience worldwide."  They find the film lacking in a strong analysis of power and short on strategy and long-term vision but useful on... Read more

Malik Miah on Black Lives Matter

Airs at: Mon, 05/11/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Malik Miah about the Black Lives Matter movement, its origins and direction. Malik argues that race makes for different working-class experiences of capitalist oppression, that we cannot simply rally under "class", and for how rebellious movements un... Read more

Oregon Public Employee Retirement System

Airs at: Tue, 05/12/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
The Oregon Supreme Court recently overturned the efforts of the Oregon Legislature to correct some of the funding problems as they affect PERS.  I interviewed more than a half-dozen legislators in 2014 about what they thought about the PERS funding issue and how they would ... Read more