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"Fight for $15 " Embraces #MeToo Movement in Striking McDonalds

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Annelise Orleck, Professor of History, Dartmouth College and author of  WE ARE ALL FAST-FOOD WORKERS NOW:  The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages" Emboldened by the #MeToo movement, McDonalds workers staged a one-day strike at restaurants in 10 cities to pressure manag... Read more

The Day to Day Fight to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Oregon

Airs at: Thu, 09/20/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  The State of Oregon is partnering with school districts and education service districts across the state to reduce chronic student absenteeism. Chronic Absenteeism is different from traditional concepts like truancy or delinquency, and aims to capture all absences from a... Read more

Worker Cooperatives

Airs at: Fri, 09/21/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  A deep dive into the worker cooperatives movement: a broad selection of organizations, activists, and cooperatively-structured workplaces that advocate for and embody workplace and economic democracy. The 21st century has seen an explosion in interest around worker coope... Read more

What Is the Feet to the Fire Campaign?

Airs at: Wed, 09/19/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    In the wake of the recent release of the autopsy report for Jason Washington, a 45-year-old man shot dead by PSU police officers in June, the seeming futility of seeking justice for police violence is again in Portland's public eye. The autopsy report comes just six d... Read more

Press**Watch: Eat the Rich

Produced for:  Presswatch
President Trump is going to be really hard to get rid of.  There's a good chance he will win again in 2020.  How, you may ask?  Well, he's a triple threat:   1. He represents the super-rich, and they are very happy with him.  He has destroyed banking regulations put in pl... Read more

Pipeline Protests Beyond Standing Rock

Airs at: Wed, 09/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Lisa Loving's guest is local multimedia journalist Christopher Francisco. He's also host of KBOO's show Human Beings With Five Fingers  https://kboo.fm/program/human-beings-5-fingers  . Christopher will talk about his work covering Standing Rock, and how the government s... Read more

Episode 7 - Ethics

Airs at: Fri, 09/14/2018 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
In episode 7, Devon asked Chris to go 'expert' on the subject of philosophical ethics. In the ensuing conversation, we talk Aristotle, Prajna, and how to include the full spectrum of human superpowers in order to turn the wheel of ethical action along the middle path. It's ... Read more

Episode 6 - Being Good

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2018 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
n this episode, Chris interviews Devon about what it is to be good. We consider questions such as, "What is it to be good and who are we being good for?" "Is there an opposite of being good?" Some of the ideas we discuss are being good as a type of performance, so as not to... Read more

The View from Base Camp

Airs at: Fri, 09/14/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    One Portland organization is using a little known environmental law to fight logging around Mt. Hood. Earlier this month, 175 volunteers with the non-profit Bark camped out in the newest proposed timber sale in Mt. Hood National Forest as part of their annual Summer B... Read more

Keynesian Vs. Marxian and Neoclassical Economics: Richard D. Wolff

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  This week's special edition of Economic Update deals with Keynesian economics as a theory that clashes with both the mainstream economics ("neoclassical") that celebrates private capitalism and with critical theories such as Marxian economics that are opposed to capitali... Read more