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Power to the People! How we can overcome SCOTUS reversal of Campaign Finance Reform!

Airs at: Wed, 02/24/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Recovery Zone
Under the guise of enforcing the free speech rights of the First Amendment,  the Supreme Court has reversed decades of campaign finance reform.  In a clearly partisan move, a majority of five justices has allowed corporations to spend unlimited cash on political advertising... Read more

Slow Economic Recovery

Airs at: Wed, 02/10/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Evening News

Discrimination on the Farm in Oregon and the Nation

Airs at: Wed, 02/17/2010 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Food Show
Black History Month special: Minority farmers in Oregon; National Black Farmers Association's Fight Only 76 of Oregon's 38,553 farms are operated by African-Americans, according to the most recent Census of Agriculture. Why is that? Miriam interviews PSU black studies pr... Read more

Signs of Change

Airs at: Wed, 02/17/2010 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Circle A Radio
Tonight on Circle A Radio, we’ll take you on an audio tour through the art exhibition: Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now.  Hundreds of posters, photographs, video, and audio representing more than forty years of activism, political protest, and social  j... Read more

Will Aaron Campbell's death finally bring police accountability to Portland?

Airs at: Thu, 02/11/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
  Will Aaron Campbell's death finally bring police accountability to Portland?   A Multnomah County grand jury this week found no criminal wrongdoing by Portland police officer Ronald Frashour in the Jan. 28 fatal shooting of Aaron Campbell. The death of an unarmed young ... Read more

A recent Poll by the Daily Kos helps Conservatives paint themselves as Buffoons

Airs at: Tue, 02/16/2010 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor Reality, it seems, has a liberal bias. Abe looks at the results of a remarkable poll, and digs into the head of modern conservatives. A recent poll from Research 2000, commissioned by the Daily Kos, revealed some extraordinary insights into the cons... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 02/04/10

Airs at: Thu, 02/04/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
Haiti, Race and International Adoption The arrest of 10 American Baptists for attempting to take children out of Haiti without permission has rekindled the debate over international adoption. Many Americans believe the plight of Haitian children more than justifies removal ... Read more

Our Republic is broken. What is to be done? Let's call a Constitutional Convention and fix it.

Airs at: Tue, 02/09/2010 at 12:00am
 Our Republic is broken. What's to be done? With Joe on vacation, Abe tosses out a possible answer: a Constitutional Convention. Our Republic is broken. A lockstep minority, cloaked in arcane rules, can bring business to a complete halt. The influence of monied interests i... Read more

Entropy and Empire

Airs at: Thu, 02/04/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for Fight the Empire
Host Per Fagereng speaks with blogger Stoneleigh, who contributes to the website theautomaticearth.blogspot.com about entropy and empire. Kurt Liebezeit co-hosts. Read more

Supreme Stunner: Unlimited Campaign Spending Permitted for Corporate "Persons"

 An old friend of mine, Lynne Likens of Talent, Oregon, let me know that she was stunned by the recent Supreme Court decision to allow unlimited corporate spending in our elections, reversing decades of campaign finance laws and cementing the myth that corporations are "per... Read more