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It's election time, Portland. Fluoride is on the ballot, in case you haven't heard. Also, y'know, kids and water quality. Join Abe and Joe as they run down the ballot measures.

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Join me in a delightful conversation with Walter Mosley on Thursday May 16, 2013 from 800AM-8: 30AM to discuss his latest book Little Green and the return of Easy Rollins! Walter Mosley is a New York City-based author, whose 37+ book literary career goes back to 1990′s Devil in a Blue Dress. That novel kicked off a series revolving around detective Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins — a Black resident of the Watts section of Los Angeles, whose continuing story begins in 1948, and (with the May 2013 release of his 12th story, Little Green) has progressed to 1967. Mosley also created the character of ex-convict Socrates Fortlow, the modern-day protagonist of Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, and two other novels. Both Rawlins and Fortlow were adapted for the screen in the 1990s.

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If you have a child or know of a child that was born with Down Syndrome, please join me on Monday, 20 May, 2013 at 11:30am as I interview George Estreich, author of The Shape of the Eye. George is the winner of the 2012 Oregon Book Award for creative non-fiction in the telling of the story of raising a daughter with born with Down Syndrome. George’s memoir tells the story of how he, his wife and oldest daughter had their lives changed forever with the birth of Laura as the go from birth to diagnosis to … life. That’s Monday, May 20, 2013 at 11:30am…only on your community radio station KBOO-FM 90.7 

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In the last five years, new scientific studies show that the situation regarding wireless radiation pollution is far worse than thought in 2007.  As wireless devices have crept further into every day life, even for children, most people around the world now have far more daily exposure than five years ago. 

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Join Peter Cervantes-Gautschi, Executive Director of Enlace and I for an informative conversation regarding Enlace campaign on private prison divestment. Enlace is a strategic alliance of low-wage worker centers, unions, and community organizations in Mexico and in the U.S. We partner with our member organizations in international campaigns to motivate abusive multi-sector transnational corporations to treat workers and communities with dignity and respect. Enlace uses an integrated approach to organizing, creating unique campaign strategies while developing systems strengthening organizations internally. Our strategies often cross industrial and sector lines for reasons relating to both workforce development and campaign strategy.

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If you listen closely, you can hear the last rasping breaths of the New Deal as it lays down to die. For the first time in history, a sitting Democratic president has proposed cuts to Social Security -- the single most popular government program of all time, and a bedrock of the modern American social contract. Well played, sir.

Abe and Joe parse the semantics and the substance of this lamentable move.