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A conversation with activist and author Jerry Mander about his latest book The Capitalism Crisis: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System.

In the 1960s, Mander was president of a major San Francisco advertising company before turning his talents to environmental campaigns. Mander worked with the noted environmentalist, David Brower, managing the Sierra Club's advertising campaigns to prevent the construction of dams in the Grand Canyon, to establish Redwood National Park, and to stop the U.S. Supersonic Transport (SST) project. In 1971 he founded the first non-profit advertising agency in the United States, Public Interest Communications.

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Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher speaks with Sam Pizzigati about his book The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900–1970. 

Polls now show that two-thirds of Americans believe that the nation's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." But almost as many Americans—well over half—feel that protests against inequality will ultimately have "little impact." The rich, millions of us believe, always get their way.

Except they don't.

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Granito is an expression of the indigenous people of Guatemala...none of us can do it alone, each must put in their granito, their tiny grain of sand.  Direct descendants of the ancient Maya, the indigenous of Guatemala make up 40% of the population.  With the help of the U.S. government, as many of 200,000 of them and their supporters, the future leaders of Guatemala, were masacred in the early 1980s. Documentary filmaker Pamela Yates witnessed the genocide and found she had her own granito, evidence to help nail a dictator.

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Iven Hale hosts this episode and we hear:

• Movie Moles review the new Jackie Robinson biopic, 42. For those too young to remember, Robinson was a pioneering black baseball player for the Dogers, a member of the Republican Party, and collaborater with HUAC in the 1950s.
• Well-read Red, Alan Wieder commerates the 20th Anniversiary of the assassination of South African freedom fighter and communist Chris Hani.
• The Left and the Law discuss Oregon prisons and punitive laws in response to budget crises.
• Bill Resnick talks about attacks on social security.

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Mark Brenner, director of Labor Notes, a national organizing center and sponsor of Troublemakers' Schools throughout the country, speaks to the 200+ labor activists at Portland's TMS on April 13, 2013 on New Directions for the Labor Movement.

We hear an excerpt from Economic Update with host economist Richard Wolff. His topics include the assault on social security, Maggie Thatcher, and "job creation." And he interviews Chris Hedges on deepening social crisis, divisions, and turmoil coming.

http://www.democracyatwork.info/radio/

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Occupy Portland Radio for April 17, 2013.

In this episode: we will explore our ongoing series about money/Federal Reserve System, corporate command and control, and what we can do about it. We spoke with Dr. Tom Potiowsky last month about the current banking system. This month we are talking with William K. Black about the structures whereby corporate inlfuence is exercised (think off-shore banking). The final piece in the series will discuss what we can do about it (hint: can you say redistribute the wealth?)

Shocking ! we know ! tune in to find out how we can be so bold!

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Join host Jo Ann Hardesty on Thursday April 18th 2013 from 8-9AM as she speaks with Common Ground‘s two Jeff’s regarding Oregon taxes and innovative legislation that will bring fairness to our tax structure.

Jeff Strang is the President of the local chapter of Common Ground and Jeff Smith is the Outreach Coordinator (and Website Manager).

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Host Per Fagereng speaks with former Reagan administration budget director David Stockman about his new book "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America." 

David Stockman was the architect of the so-called Reagan Revolution. In "The Great Deformation" he argues that the working of free markets and democracy has long been under threat in America, and provides a nonpartisan list of the corrupters and defenders.