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It's election time, Portland. Fluoride is on the ballot, in case you haven't heard. Also, y'know, kids and water quality. Join Abe and Joe as they run down the ballot measures.

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Three-Year #1 New York Times bestselling author Rory Freedman comes to Portland to speak at Powell's Books and on KBOO about her new book Beg: A Radical New Way of Regarding Animals. Freedman's Skinny Bitch was a "diet" book about veganism. In Beg Freedman exposes hard truths behind the use of animals in research, and in the entertainment, fashion and food industries; and she challenges pet lovers to seek humane treatment for all animals. Hosted by Stephanie Potter. 

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Join me in a delightful conversation with Walter Mosley on Thursday May 16, 2013 from 800AM-8: 30AM to discuss his latest book Little Green and the return of Easy Rollins! Walter Mosley is a New York City-based author, whose 37+ book literary career goes back to 1990′s Devil in a Blue Dress. That novel kicked off a series revolving around detective Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins — a Black resident of the Watts section of Los Angeles, whose continuing story begins in 1948, and (with the May 2013 release of his 12th story, Little Green) has progressed to 1967. Mosley also created the character of ex-convict Socrates Fortlow, the modern-day protagonist of Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, and two other novels. Both Rawlins and Fortlow were adapted for the screen in the 1990s.

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Resistance Ecology, a new organization and a new movement intent on bringing together activists and organizations from both Animal Rights and Social Justice to form an adaptive and resilient movement capable of responding to the government's ever changing modes of suppression. The First Annual Resistance Ecology Conference is this May 31^st at PSU. Join me Linda Olson Osterlund and organizer Justin Kay to talk about resistance ecology and the upcoming conference.

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Leaky pipelines, Canadian oil, and a whole lotta money. Also -- it's KBOO's Spring Membership Drive! Give us your filthy lucre! Hella ducats, bro!

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What is it to be "human" or "wild?" What do we mean by "sustainability" or "civilization?" Miles Olson questions our basic assumptions, and shares practical information for surviving an uncertain future in his unconventional survival guide, Unlearn, Rewild: Earth skills, ideas and inspiration for the future primitive.  He has spent the last decade learning and practicing earth skills, and deepening his connection to nature.

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Biotech's Brave New Beasts. Glowing cats, pigs with Cystic Fibrosis & robot rats. Have you heard about them? What about goats modified with human genes to make milk that stops diarrhea. Join Host, Linda Olson Osterlund for a membership drive special. Author Emily Anthes will talk about her new book Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling up to Biotechs Brave New Beasts. If you care about animals and our planets future, this is the show for you.

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Host Stephanie Potter interviews Jayne Miller, rancher and head of the Oregon Cougar Action Team, about two bills currently being discussed in the Oregon Legislature that would relax the ban on using hound dogs to kill cougar. In 1994 Oregon passed Ballot Measure 18 which bans hunting bears with bait or cougars with dogs. 

Now two cougar-related bills before the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. House Bill 2624 would exempt counties from the statewide prohibition on using dogs to hunt cougars and black bears, if county voters approve. It also would allow the use of bait to hunt bears. 

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The Move To Amend coalition is hosting a Democracy Convergence in Portland May 3-5 at Portland Community College.  Join David Cobbs and I in this conversation tomorrow from the Move To Amend Coalition and learn about the coalition and their Convergence this weekend.

As you may remember on January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions.