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Andrew Potter: "The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves"

Airs at: Mon, 10/10/2011 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for More Talk Radio
Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod Andrew Potter about his book, The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves. Andrew Potter is public affairs columnist with Maclean'smagazine, Canada's premier newsweekly, and a features editor with Canadian Business magazine... Read more

Labor Radio's IWW Special!

Airs at: Mon, 10/10/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Labor Radio
 Al Bradbury and Angela MacWhinnie bring you a Very Special Episode of Labor Radio, all about the IWW.  Wobbly guests include: Daniel Gross, IWW organizer, co-founder of the Starbucks Workers' Union, and author of the preface to the new edition of Rebel Voices: An IWW ... Read more

APA Compass, Coalition of Communities of Color Report, June Schumann

Airs at: Fri, 10/07/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for APA Compass
APA Compass's Andrew Yeh interviews June Arima Schumann, co-chair for APANO's (Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon)'s board of directors.  Ms. Schumann discusses the extensive research that's been done over the past few years on people of color in Multnomah County, Ore... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 10-06-11 Where vision meets on-the-ground action: A conversation with Eric Mann

Airs at: Thu, 10/06/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
Where vision meets on-the-ground action: A conversation with Eric Mann How does the vision of creating social justice get translated into concrete action for change? What are the roles and responsibilities of the organizer in making change happen? This week on Voices from t... Read more

Movie Moles: American Dream

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris and Laurie Mercier talk about "American Dream", which was an Academy award winning documentary about union meatpackers working in one of Hormel's plants. They consider the tension within the labor movement as the national union disagreed over the militant acti... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 3rd

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and we hear:     Bill Resnick talks with Mark Engler about the Wall Street Protests. Jan Haaken talks with Bob Joondepth about legislative reform in the Oregon State Hospital. Joe Clement talks with Ivy Knight of Occupy Portland... Read more

Occupy Portland!!! Bob Kelly talks about The Occupation

Airs at: Tue, 10/04/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris. Today's guest is Bob Kelly, the Communications Representative from Occupy Portland, in to talk about this week's Demonstration. Thursday, October 6, 2011 Noon O'Clock Tom McCall Waterfront Park Under the Burnside Bridge We will Meet at the Waterfront, Ge... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 09-29-11 The Fraying of Oregon's Middle Class

Airs at: Thu, 09/29/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
The Fraying of Oregon's Middle Class Good wages, benefits and a better life for your children were what most Americans expected in return for their hard day's work. But these pieces of the American dream are fast disappearing as living wage jobs disappear, hard-won benefit... Read more

labor protests in Longview, Wash., and dabble in Gen-X cultural milestones.

Airs at: Tue, 09/27/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris When the bottom fell out of the financial markets in 2008, lawmakers rushed to bail out the architects of the global crash. But this begs a question -- when will we decide to bail out the collapsed labor market? Abe and Joe examine the ... Read more

Class War and the Postal Service

Airs at: Mon, 09/26/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Politicians are threatening to squeeze the Postal Service to reduce competition for private delivery services and eliminating good jobs.  We hear audio from a video produced by the postal workers' unions which lays out the issues.   Read more