Legislation

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Conservatism: the gnawing fear that someone, somewhere, might be having a good time.

Airs at: Tue, 07/19/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is still on vacation.   In the 2010 elections, the GOP snatched up statehouses and state legislatures across the country. Predictably, an onslaught of regressive legislation has ensued -- againstwomen, against minorities, against the e... Read more

Illegal Drug Impact Areas aka Drug Free Zones

Airs at: Wed, 05/11/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Right To Survive
On 4-20-11, the city of Portland reinstituted the Drug Free Zones, amidst concerns about racial profiling, and misappropriation of funds.  Read more

As the Republic is delivered into the hands of the plutocrats, Abe surveys the wreckage.

Airs at: Tue, 07/12/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is off for the summer.   We truly have passed through the looking glass. With unemployment near 10 percentfor the third straight year, the patricians in Washington haggle over whether corporate jets deserve special tax consideration. In ... Read more

Winners and losers in 2011 Oregon legislative session

Airs at: Thu, 07/07/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Host Jo Ann Bowman conducts a review of the recent 2011 Oregon legislative session.  Tax payers are funding more for prisons, and less for just about everything else -- we can thank Kevin Mannix and the passage of his measure 57 for mandatory sentences. Also thank legisl... Read more

Out Loud celebrates Latino Gay Pride

Airs at: Tue, 07/05/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Out Loud
June is typically Pride Month, but our pride won't be contained to one month alone. Our queer community is so awesome, we have three different pride events! Tonight we focus on Latino Gay Pride and we welcome organizers of this festival, including David Martinez, Vaness... Read more

A Recap on the State of the Union after 235 Years... Wherefore Art Thou, Liberty?

Airs at: Tue, 07/05/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor; Joe Uris is *still* on vacation... Today, Abe looks at Liberty, or what's left of it, in light of the Independence Day celebrations.     Read more

Food-Stamps: an effective program that we can't afford to cut

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe talks with Jessica Chanay of Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon about the food-stamps program, its importance for recipients and society at large, and what it would mean if we applied 1996 Welfare Reform type cuts to it, as current legislators want to.   Read more

Jane Collins: welfare and the working-poor

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill and Jane talk about the relationship between welfare and the working-poor, paying special attention to working-mothers in Jane's research. Jane says she and her colleagues have wanted to know how the relationship between government, families and business has change... Read more

South Asian Americans Leading Together: Deepa Iyer and Afshan Khoja

Airs at: Fri, 07/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
In light of the death of Osama Bin Laden, the world has been reflecting on the upcoming ten-year anniversary of September 11lth. While Sarika Mehta was visiting Washington, DC, she sat down with Deepa Iyer and Afshan Khoja from the community activist organization, South ... Read more

Gentrification in Northeast Portland

Airs at: Wed, 06/29/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Host Lisa Loving’s guests are Imani Muhammad of the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, and The Oregonian's Nikole Hannah-Jones, talking about a special event: Just the Facts, featuring Oregonian reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones in a community conversation on her research... Read more