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Community Runs Free Adult Health Clinic

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Thu, 02/21/2008

The North by Northeast Community Health Center opened in response to the medical needs of Hurricane Katrinia survivors and of the medically uninsured here in Portland. This audio features interviews with Dr. Jill Ginsberg, Pastor Mary Overstreet Smith, and Suzy Jeffreys a year and a half after the center's opening. They describe the North by Northeast Community Health Center and its roots in taking action in the face of injustice.

17:04 minutes (15.63 MB)

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Poet Activist Sunni Patterson on V-Day in New Orleans

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Bread and Roses

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Fri, 04/11/2008

Activist, poet and healer Sunni Patterson speaks with Bread & Roses from the Tenth Annual V-Day celebration in New Orleans. The annual V-Day event is an international celebration of ending violence against women and girls, and this year honors the women of New Orleans and the Gulf South. Ms. Patterson, a native of New Orleans, was part of a panel that presented at the V-Day events on April 11. This audio includes a poem and interview.

For more information about Sunni Patterson, you can log onto her website: www.sunnipatterson.com

20:57 minutes (19.18 MB)

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Bread & Roses: UNITE HERE Local 9 on the Portland Hilton boycott

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Bread and Roses

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Thu, 05/08/2008

Becca Griggs and Eryn Slack, members of UNITE HERE Local 9 spoke with Bread & Roses on May 9, 2008 about the ongoing boycott of the Portland Hilton. In this short interview, Becca and Eryn talk about hotel work experiences, the union's demand for a fair contract and actions the public can take to support these workers.

For more information about UNITE HERE go to their website: unitehere.org

6:02 minutes (5.53 MB)

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American Human Development Project

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Bread and Roses

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Thu, 08/14/2008

Interview with New York based writer and researcher Kristen Lewis, co-director of the American Human Development Project. The project is a non-partisan, non-profit initiative to apply a well established international approach to measuring human well-being in the US.

46:45 minutes (42.8 MB)

The Persistent Power of Socialist Feminism, Part I

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Bread and Roses

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Thu, 08/21/2008

Interviews with Nellie Wong and Laura Mannen on The Persistent Power of Socialist Feminism, the upcoming Radical Women Conference to be held October 3-6 in San Francisco.

Part I: Nellie Wong, a long time revolutionary feminist activist and poet, will be a keynote speaker at the conference. She talks about the critical need for this conference now and a how she came to revolutionary feminism. (30 min.)

29:54 minutes (27.38 MB)

The Persistent Power of Socialist Feminism, Part 2

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Bread and Roses

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Wed, 09/03/2008

Interviews with Nellie Wong and Laura Mannen on The Persistent Power of Socialist Feminism, the upcoming Radical Women Conference to be held October 3-6 in San Francisco.