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Out Loud wraps up 2011

Airs at: Tue, 12/27/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Out Loud
Normal 0 Tonight we focus on 2011 by welcoming back to the studio Heather Perkins and Laura Calvo. Heather shares some music samples from her year-long 365.52.12 project. Laura covers some of the political high lights and low life stories from 2011. Our first music break... Read more

Our year-end wrap-up show. Plus: predictions for 2012

Airs at: Tue, 12/27/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris  It's a grab bag of topics on Abe and Joe's end-of-the-year show. Plus: predictions for 2012.   Read more

Presswatch for 12-22-201

Airs at: Thu, 12/22/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Topics include the National Defense Authorization Act, global warming releases greenhouse gasses, Mayan ruins in Georgia and listener calls. Read more

Debate over Congressional Measures to End Online Piracy Continues

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Oregon senator Ron Wyden is one of three lawmakers that introduced a bill today to protect the free and open internet while still enforcing copyright violations. The bill, known as the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade, or OPEN Act, provides an alternative ... Read more

Protesters Rally in Scappose to Prevent Post Office Shut Down

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The battle to keep Oregon’s rural post offices open continued today with a rally in Scappoose. Although Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley on Friday claimed credit for saving twenty of Oregon’s post offices from closure, twenty one more are still scheduled to be shut down by the e... Read more

Group Canvasses North Portland to Save US Postal Service

Airs at: Tue, 12/20/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
This week is the busiest week of the year for the US Postal Service. Despite all the business, the postal service is on the verge of bankruptcy because of a pre-funding mandate imposed by a lame-duck Congress in 2006.  Here in Portland, a door-to-door canvassing group calle... Read more

Kevin Card talks about the crisis facing the U.S. Postal Service.

Airs at: Tue, 12/20/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris Kevin Card, president of the Oregon State Association of Letter Carriers, joins Abe and Joe to discuss the crisis facing the U.S. Postal Service. Also, Joe fills us in on the history of labor in the United States and the state of organiz... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/12/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill Resnick is our host today with live coverage of the West Coast port shutdowns.  Bill talks with activists on the scene here in Portland and in Oakland.  Also on the show, the Movie Moles take us back in time to the politics of It's A Wonderful Life, Tom Becker reads a... Read more

Phony Crisis of the US Postal Service

Airs at: Mon, 12/12/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jim Cook is engaged in a struggle to save the U.S. Postal Service from a crisis that may bring it down and leave all our mail in the hands of private corporations.  Here he talks with Bill Resnick about why the crisis is a fake and what needs to be done about it.  Jim is Pr... Read more

10 Years that Shook San Francisco 1968-1978

Airs at: Wed, 12/07/2011 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78 is A collection of first-person and historical essays spans the people’s history of San Francisco in the tumultuous decade from 1968, the year of the San Francisco State College strike, to 1978 and the twin traumas of the... Read more