Economy

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What you don't know can't hurt the Oregonian; We'll look at the paper's new online partnership

Airs at: Tue, 05/31/2011 at 12:00am
Like newspapers everywhere, the Oregonian is struggling to find a place in the new world of digital media. Its new online Oregon News Network pairs it with a set of independent partners to generate locally-based reporting -- including the Cascade Policy Institute, a liberta... Read more

Social Security: Beyond the Doom and Gloom

Airs at: Thu, 05/26/2011 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Host Celeste Carey interviews Max Richtman, Executive VP/Acting CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. Richtman says, “It’s important that Americans understand the [just-released] 2011 Trustees Report which confirms that Social Security and ... Read more

Will Oregon be first to end prohibition of cannabis?

Airs at: Wed, 05/25/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
 Host Stephanie Potter speaks Paul Stanford and Jennifer Alexander who are working to put the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 2012 on the November, 2012 ballot. If passed this initiative would legalize the purchase of marijuana (through state licensed stores), license Oregon farmer... Read more

The 11th annual Village Building Convergence!

Airs at: Tue, 05/24/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   The City Repair Projects's Mark Lakeman joins Abe and Joe to discuss the upcoming 11th annual Village Building Convergence, set for May 27-June 5 at more than 40 sites throughout the city. Portlanders will come together to create benc... Read more

Rural Organizing Project in Bend

Airs at: Wed, 05/18/2011 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
The Rural Organizing Project held its annual rural caucus on May 7th, in Bend Oregon.  On ths episode of Circle A Radio, we will listen to speeches from the event, hear participants in the march on Representative Greg Walden’s office, and talk to individual members of Rural... Read more

Free-For-All in the kabuki theater that passes for American political discourse

Airs at: Tue, 05/17/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris and Abe Proctor   It might seem hard to believe, but the kabuki theater that passes for the American political discourse has been even stranger of late than it usually is. Abe and Joe survey the absurd state of the empire, while Joe shares a laundry li... Read more

Voices from the Edge 05-12-11 Richard Wolff

Airs at: Thu, 05/12/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Hosts Jo Ann Bowman and Dave Mazza speak with professor and author Richard Wolff. Wolff just wrote the piece "The Threats of Business and the Business of Threats," which states: "More and more we hear that nothing can be done to tax major corporations because of the threat... Read more

A Common Sense Alternative to the Columbia River Crossing

Airs at: Tue, 05/10/2011 at 12:00am
Hosted by Joe Uris, with Abe Proctor in absentia. It's the spring membership drive! Joe discusses the latest iteration in the long-running debate on a new bridge over the Columbia River. But really, it's all about the ducats. C'mon, now. If you're not yet a member of KBOO, ... Read more

Afrocolombians and the Free Trade Agreement

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Marino Córdoba, an Afrocolombian activist displaced from his hometown and now in exile in the U.S., talks about the situation of Afrocolombian and indigenous communities in the shadow of free trade. Read more

Colombian Unionist Speaks Out Against the Free Trade Agreement

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Gerardo Cajamarca, of the Colombian union Sinaltrainal, talks about the proposed free trade agreement.  This is an edited translation of the interview in Spanish also posted here. Read more