Responding to the rash of recent bike collisions and injuries Portland’s bike community stood in solidarity underneath the Hawthorne bridge this past Saturday.
KBOO’s Michael Ianello spoke with Jonathan Maus from Bike Portland.org about the rally and what Portlanders can do to increase respect on the cities roads.
On Saturday the United nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released it’s new report on Global Warming.
The UN panel, which shared the Nobel Peace prize with Al Gore , said there is no doubt, Global warming is happening andpeople all over the earth are feeling it’s effects.
Bill Resnick talks with Mark Weisbrot about the state of the economy, especially the debt crisis; with local activist Deborah Schwartz about making the City of Portland sweat-free; and with Norman Solomon about the politics of progressivism and his new book "Made Love, Got War." Tom Becker recalls the 1919 Centralia massacred, and Larry Bowlden reviews Ian McEwan's latest novel "On Chesil Beach."
Patricia Sweeney of Spiral of Life talks about the legalities and logistics of a home funeral, which like home birth is enjoying a kind of revival right now. Cynthia Beal of the Natural Burial Company discusses the multitude of options for green/natural burial. For more some intriguing facts discovered while working on this show as well as plenty of other information, please visit http://destinationdiy.org.
PROTESTERS GATHERED FOR THE SIXTEENTH WEEK IN A ROW IN FRONT OF REPRESENTATIVE EARL BLUMENAUER’S OFFICE THIS AFTERNOON.
THEY ARE CALLING ON BLUMENAUER TO SUPPORT THE IMPEACHMENT OF GEORGE W. BUSH AND DICK CHENEY. A RESOLUTION WAS INTRODUCED IN THE HOUSE THIS WEEK BY DENNIS KUCINICH.
KBOO’S CRYSTAL ELINSKI WAS THERE, AND INTERVIEWED ONE OF THE ORGANIZERS OF THE PROTEST: