Economy

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David Graeber, professor and activist and author of "Debt: The First 5,000 Years"

Airs at: Wed, 10/19/2011 at 12:00am
The Greed Special Hosted by Per Fagereng and Joe Clement Per and Joe interview David Graeber, professor, activist, and author of "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" Read more

Occupy Wall Street Rediscovers the Radical Imagination

Airs at: Mon, 10/17/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Joe Clement reads an essay titled "Occupy Wall Street Rediscovers The Radical Imagination" by David Graeber, a noted anthropologist-activist involved with Occupy Wall Street. He argues that if anything the occupation movement breaks a decades old consensus about the inesca... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 17th

Airs at: Mon, 10/17/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
        Bill Resnick hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill interview Harvey Wasserman about the relationship between our democratic energy future and Occupy Wall Street. Joe Clement reads an essay by David Graeber about the Radical Imagination set loose by the Wal... Read more

Occupy Portland, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy The World!!!

Airs at: Tue, 10/18/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris. Joe reports on the popular Occupy Portland encampment, including phone calls from Sandy Polishuk, one of our Elder Activists working on-site in whatever capacity seems appropriate at the time, and from Jimmy, one of the Volunteer Coordinators. There is ... Read more

Pursuing Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High Finance Carnivores: A conversation with Greg Palast

Airs at: Mon, 10/17/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
 Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast blew the lid off voter fraud in 2000 and 2004 that threw the presidential elections into doubt. Greg has picked up the money trail again, following it to a corrupt link between Big Oil and High Finance that has produced re... Read more

KBOO Radio @Occupy Portland Encampment 2011

  Click here for the Occupy Portland Radio show, airing on 90.7 FM every 3rd and 5th Wednesday of the month from 6 -7 pm  From on-the-scene reporting, in-depth interviews, on-air broadcasts of needs during the encampment, music, and much more...KBOO was there, is there, a... Read more

True Wealth: How & Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, Hi-Satisfaction Economy

Airs at: Fri, 10/07/2011 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher interviews Juliet Schor about her recent book: True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy    Publisher Comments: A groundbreaking statement about ecol... Read more

"The Economics of Happiness," an interview with Helena Norberg Hodge

Airs at: Tue, 10/11/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Kathleen Stephenson interviews Helena Norberg-Hodge, the internationally renowned environmentalist and leading critic of conventional notions of growth and development. She is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the alternative Nobel Prize. S... Read more

Occupy Wall Street comes to Portland -- and it's the real deal.

Airs at: Tue, 10/11/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   The Occupy Wall Street movement has come to Portland. Much has been made aboutwhat the movement is, what the occupiers want, and what their message is. It's really pretty simple -- it's about economic injustice. And it's the real dea... Read more

Movie Moles: American Dream

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris and Laurie Mercier talk about "American Dream", which was an Academy award winning documentary about union meatpackers working in one of Hormel's plants. They consider the tension within the labor movement as the national union disagreed over the militant acti... Read more