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Robin Ryan hosts a preview of the Troublemakers School. On Saturday, April 13th, labor advocacy groups and unions will host a daylong conference with workshops and panels.

Special guests include Mark Brenner, director of Labor Notes, and Stephanie Luce, professor of labor studies and Occupy Wall Street enthusiast.

Course highlights include how to overcome apathy, reviving the strike and building winnable campaigns to fight austerity.

http://www.jwjpdx.org/jwjevents/event-1360283204.23

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The guest is Cathy Breen, who has volunteered with Voices for Creative Nonviolence for many years. She first went to Iraq in Fall of 2002 with Voices in the Wilderness as part of the Iraq Peace Team. She returned about eight months into the occupation and then again last October. Over the last six years she has also spent periods of time in both Jordan and Syria alongside of Iraqi refugees, to witness to their reality and advocate for their resettlement when desired.
Kathleen Stephenson interviews her about her experiences and the lives of the Iraqi people and Iraqi refugees.

David Suzuki on A Radical Environmental Paradigm 

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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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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Robert Bullard, the Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University. Robert Bullard is often described as the father of environmental justice. He is the author of seventeen books that address sustainable development, environmental racism, urban land use, industrial facility siting, community reinvestment, housing, transportation, climate justice, emergency response, smart growth, and regional equity. He'll discuss his most recent book "The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities."  

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Host Chris Andreae welcomes local activist Mark Lakeman of City Repair for this Earth Day Special.  They'll talk about the Hunter/Gatherer path and where it might have lead us to at this point in time and what that might look like.

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Earth Day special programming continues with an interview with Adam Rome, author of "The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-in Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation." 

Rome explaines how Senator Gaylord Nelson’s simple idea for a nationwide teach-in about the environment grew into “an educational experience as well as a political demonstration.” Manifesting in the form of over 12,000 local events, the teach-in catalyzed a limited effort by disparate environmental groups into a powerful movement that engaged politicians, youth, the media, the educational system, and everyday people in an explosion of interest and activity around protecting the Earth

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Paul Roland interviews John Stauber, long-time activist, investigative reporter and author. They discuss Stauber's beginnings and history as an activist, from protesting the Viet Nam war and organizing a teach-in at his high school on the first Earth Day in 1970, to fighting herbicide spraying in the National Forests and against genetically modified growth hormones for cows, to exposing government and industry propaganda.