Joe Uris leads an exploration of several key events from labor history.

He curses and breaks into song as the subject matter dictates.

This event was recorded at the human's Public Library in downtown Portland on or about February 21st 2012.

This program was originally broadcast over the air on KBOO.fm in Portland, Oregon on Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. It was part of the all-day public affairs fund drive special on challenging corporate power.

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This program was painstakingly researched but may contain information which is incomplete. There are likely inaccuracies herein which will be corrected based on reader feedback. Oversights and omissions can be corrected by YOUR research. Thank you for helping us get the facts on GMO products and their impacts on human health. (Skip to the end for food safety activist information).

#Keywords  under discussion in this program include #Agent_Orange, #glyphosate, #Roundup, #AquAdvantage_Salmon, #rBST, #rGBH, #dioxin, #uniformity, #Codex_Alimentarius, #PCB, #brinjal,
#Knockout_mouse, #Oncomouse, #Enviropig, #Knockout_rat, #MON_809, #MON_810, #MON_863, #Amflora, #Golden_rice, Roundup_Ready, #Vistive_Gold, #Fish_tomato, #Flavr_Savr, #Bt_cotton, #tobacco, #Arabidopsis, #Canola, #Rose, #Glofish, #Ice-minus, #Hepatitis_B, #Onyx-015, #Inserting_DNA, #Biolistics, #Agrobacteria, #Transfection, #Electroporation, #Microinjection, #Viral_transformation, #Lipofection, #Recombinant_DNA, #Transgenesis, #Cisgenesis, #Pharming, #Transgene, #GMO, #Genetic_pollution, #Reverse_transfection, #terminator_gene, #Gene_therapy, #Genetic_enhancement, #Gene_knockout, #Gene_knockdown, #Gene_targeting, #genetically_modified_organisms, #Synthetic_biology, #Cloning, #Stem_cell 

Get current Monsanto Chemical Company Details from Wikipedia or from the official Monsanto website

Current board of directors (February 2012) includes influential people like the president of South Dakota State University, and high-level executives from companies including McDonald’s, the Sara Lee Corporation, The Procter & Gamble Company, investment firm GenNx360 Capital Partners, Connected Energy Networks at Cisco Systems, the biotechnology firm MPI Research, and two executives from Health Technology Networks.

Explore the power, wealth and influence concentrated on Monsanto’s board of directors:

http://www.ranker.com/list/notable-monsanto-employees/reference

http://theyrule.net/ use this website to see the breadth of Monsanto’s corporate influence

Dekalb - GMO seed for corn, grain sorghum, alfalfa, spring and winter canola)

Genuity - GMO soybeans, cotton, canola and sugarbeets

Seminis - home garden seed brands

Asgrow - GMO soybeans

Deltapine - GMO cotton

WestBred - GMO Wheat

Brinjal - GMO eggplant

Celebrex - from the Pharmacia medical research division of Monsanto

Home Garden Products from Monsanto

herbicides and pesticides including RoundUP (glyphosate)

GMO seed

Petrochemicals and Petroleum Byproducts (historical)

polystyrene

polyurethane

elemental phosphorus (Idaho Soda Springs Plant)

glyphosate (RoundUp, other herbicides)

Agent Orange

Biosciences and Genetics

farm animals (GMO)

food crops (GMO seed)

agrifuel crops

rBGH (recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone)

Military

The Manhattan Project

Agent Orange

Historical Monsanto Products (Spinoffs, Subsidiaries, and Brands)

NutraSweet - artificial sweetener (formerly Aspartame from Serle)

Legislative and Political Initiatives by Monsanto

Lobbying Interests and Expenditures

patent law (including genetics)

farm policy (subsidies)

environmental regulation (groundwater contamination)

health care (biomedical research and development)

food labeling (GMO labeling)

United States Environmental Protection Agency

United States Department of Agriculture

United Nations

Codex Alimentarius

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

World Health Organization (WHO)

Controversies involving Monsanto

GMO - Genetically Modified Organisms (plant and animal genomic manipulation)

Terminator seeds

rBGH (recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone)

Environmental Pollution (i.e. PCB pollution in Anniston, Alabama)

Documentaries and Films about GMO Food (alphabetical)

Earthlings

Food, Inc.

Forks Over Knives

The Future of Food

Jimmy's GM Food Fight

King Corn

Meat the Truth

We Become Silent: The Last Days of Health Freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjd7b4lHRl8 (from youtube)

The World According to Monsanto

Youtube | site search for Monstanto

The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of Our Food Supply

First Fruit: The Creation of the Flavr Savr Tomato and the Birth of Genetically Engineered FoodsGenetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods

Got (Genetically Engineered) Milk? The Monsanto rBGH/BST Milk Wars Handbook

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating

Seeds of Destruction

Consumer’s Union | Consumers Union Calls on U.S. to Support Genetically Modified Organic Consumer’s Association | Millions Against Monsanto - site search: Monsanto

Union of Concerned Scientists | Eight Ways Monsanto Fails at Sustainable Agriculture

Greenpeace | Monsanto files patent for new invention: the pig

Vanity Fair | Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear

Beyond Toxics | Safe Public Spaces Project

LittleSis.org | search term: Monsanto

Living on Earth | Bare Shoulders: Herbicide Along the Highway

Michael Pollan | The High Price of Cheap Food Mealpolitik over lunch with Michael Pollan

Natural News | Genetically-modified salmon contaminated with infectious salmon anemia

OpenSecrets.org | search term: Monsanto

Common Dreams | Monsanto, Agent Orange Creator, Returns To Vietnam

Bill McKibben | Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

Vandana Shiva on GMOs |  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p32Iq6akmpo

PETA | Consumers Trust PETA More Than Factory Farmers

India Sues Monsanto Over Genetically-Modified Eggplant | Forbes

Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields | True Activist

NPR | Monsanto Accused In Suit Tied To Agent Orange

OPB (NPR) | Tests reveal herbicides in Oregonians’ urine

Grist - Clare Leschin-Hoar | Feds Help GMO Salmon Swim Upstream

http://earthfix.opb.org/communities/article/6-things-you-should-know-about-the-triangle-lake-p/

http://earthfix.opb.org/communities/article/residents-west-of-eugene-recieve-herbicide-test-re/

http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/users/Amy%20Merwin/

http://geke.us/MonsantoVenn.html

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/30

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/03-2

Educational and Activist Organizations

Consumer’s Union

Labeling Agreement

Forestland Dwellers | Western Oregon

Ocean Conservancy | GMO Salmon

Organic Consumers Association Millions Against Monsanto campaign

Pitchfork Rebellion | Western Oregon

Unions of Concerned Scientists

Combat Monsanto (U.K.)

links missing from this site are an oversight which can be addressed to the page publisher.

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KBOO’s Joe Meyer interviews Jeffrey Clements, the author of Corporations Are Not People  and Zac Brugman of Move to Amend and Alliance for Democracy.

They discuss corporate power in the United States with an empahsis on what you can do about it.

On a special combined version of Presswatch and Fight the Empire hosts Theresa Mitchell and Per Fagereng speak with author and professor Fred Magdoff about his book "

," co-authored with John Bellamy Foster.

A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment is a manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Environmental and economic scholars Magdoff and Foster contend that the struggle to reverse ecological degradation requires a firm grasp of economic reality. Going further, they argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power—no matter how “green”—are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.

What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism tackles the two largest issues of our time, the ecological crisis and the faltering capitalist economy, in a way that is thorough, accessible, and sure to provoke debate in the environmental movement.

Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. His most recent books include Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal (edited with Brian Tokar), The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know (with Michael Yates), and The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (with John Bellamy Foster). John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review. He is professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and author of The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet, The Great Financial Crisis (with Fred Magdoff), Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism Versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present (with Brett Clark and Richard York), Ecology Against Capitalism, Marx’s Ecology, and The Vulnerable Planet.