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It Calls You Back

Airs at: Fri, 12/02/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Radiozine
Host Carlos Chavez interviews author, poet and activist Luis J Rodriguez. They discuss his new memoir, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing. Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Chicano writers in the country with f... Read more

Winning Paid Sick Leave in Seattle

Airs at: Mon, 11/28/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Labor Radio
Dave Freiboth, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Martin Luther King County Labor Council, discusses Seattle's new paid sick leave ordinance and what it took to win it. Read more

Black Women in the Trades

Airs at: Mon, 11/28/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Labor Radio
Fewer Black women are entering and staying in the building and construction trades than in the 1970s.  Portland State University Professor Roberta Hunte provides insights into institutional barriers and survival strategies for our sisters of color.  Jamie Partridge co-host... Read more

Colombian Port Workers Describe How They Live and Work

Airs at: Mon, 12/12/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Labor Radio
The Unión Portuaria, the Colombian union of port workers, takes members of a Witness for Peace delegation on a tour of the modern Pacific coast port of Buenaventura, and then of the impoverished barrio in which the workers live. Read more

This Thanksgiving, Abe and Joe give thanks for an awakened American people.

Airs at: Tue, 11/22/2011 at 12:00am
  This Thanksgiving, there is so much to be thankful for, even in this time of hungry ghosts. The American people have awakened, and a Movement is afoot. Abe and Joe give thanks for the Occupaction, and take your calls. A Listener recommended reading From Dictatorship to De... Read more

Capitalism and Its Discontents; and Cops for Labor?

Airs at: Mon, 11/14/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Labor Radio
We talk with author Sasha Lilley about her book Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult (Spectre), Occupy Oakland, and her activism as a shop steward at KPFA radio station in Oakland, California, where she co-produces and co-host... Read more

Positively Revolting on 11-18-11 Occupy Portland - an update on the actions of the last week, and plans for the future

Airs at: Fri, 11/18/2011 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Positively Revolting
Hosts Lyn Moelich and Ani have a conversation with three people who have been active with  Occupy Portland. On Saturday, November 12th, thousands of people came out in support of the Occupy encampment.  When it seemed that a peaceful resolution was had after a night of sta... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 11/14/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this show focusing on Occupations, especially here in Portland.  We hear extensive interviews with participants in the local Occupation, an indictment of the "Party of Wall Street," and aboutfactory occupations in Argentina. For information about our theme ... Read more

Occupying Argentina: "The Take"

Airs at: Mon, 11/14/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Workers occupied and operated factories being closed by their owners in Argentina during a time of financial collapse.  Jan Haaken and Nancy Hollander discuss the documentary film about those events, The Take.  Read more

KBOO’s month long experiment in ‘embedded journalism’ at Occupy Portland

When the Occupy Portland encampment began on October 6th, we at KBOO knew that we would be very involved in reporting on the movement – the issues, the constituency involved, and the bottom-up civic activism displayed by the camp’s ad-hoc organizers all spoke directly to KB... Read more