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Political Perspectives on 11/14/12

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Scott Crow speaks in Portland
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Scott Crow, anarchist, author and co-founder of the Common Ground Collective in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, spoke in Portland on November 5th.

We will air his talk on KBOO for anyone who missed it.

Crow's new book is called Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective.

He was recently featured in an article about government surveillance of anarchists in the New York Times.

Political Perspectives on 10/31/12

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Wed, 10/31/2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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US Complicity and UN failings in Dealing with Israel’s Violations of International Law

Presentations from the NEW YORK SESSION of THE RUSSELL TRIBUNAL on PALESTINE
"US Complicity and UN failings in Dealing with Israel’s Violations of International Law Towards the Palestinian People," held in New York on October 6th & 7th 2012.

Jury Members: Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Cynthia McKinney, Mairead Maguire, Stephane Hessel, Ronnie Kasrils, John Dugard, Dennis Banks, Michael Mansfield QC, Judge Martin Pallin, Miguel Angel Estrella, Roger Waters.
 

Part 1 "The Role of the United Nations in the Obstruction of Palestinians’ right to Self Determination
Jeanne Mirer for Raji Sourani (visa withheld) : The Case of Gaza"

Political Perspectives on 10/24/12

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Wed, 10/24/2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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The Creation of Money, Banking and the Future of Public Banking
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Host Per Fagereng speaks with Ellen Brown author of Web of Debt and founder of the Public Banking Institute about where money really comes from, and who gets the benefits from its creation. Ellen Brown will talk with Per for the first part of the show. After she leaves Per will talk with local activist David Bean of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and take your calls on money, banking and a possible financial collapse.

Political Perspectives on 10/17/12

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Wed, 10/17/2012 - 9:30am - 10:00am
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Marjorie Kelly on "Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution"
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Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Marjorie Kelly about her new book, Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution. She explores many experiments with new forms of ownership, which she calls generative: aimed at creating the conditions for life for many generations to come. Kelly reports from all over the world, visiting a community-owned wind facility in Massachusetts, a lobster cooperative in Maine, a multibillion-dollar employee-owned department-store chain in London, a foundation-owned pharmaceutical in Denmark, a farmer-owned dairy in Wisconsin, and other places where a hopeful new economy is being built. Along the way, she finds the five essential patterns of ownership design that make these models work.

Political Perspectives on 10/17/12

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Dr. Joseph Romm on "Language Intelligence"
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Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher interviews author, blogger, physicis and climate expert Dr. Joseph Romm about his new book Language Intelligence: Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga.

"Joe Romm is one of the best communicators we have. This book is the essential hand-book for anyone who wants to be more effective or more persuasive."
- Bill McKibben, Founder, 350.org

Political Perspectives on 10/10/12

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Wed, 10/10/2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Investigative reporter James Steele on THE BETRAYAL OF THE AMERICAN DREAM.
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The guest is James Steele, co-author with Donald Barlett of the THE BETRAYAL OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. The New York Times calls the book "a fiercely-reported indictment of how the American middle class has been condemned to terminal decline, from the authors of America: What Went Wrong."

Political Perspectives on 10/03/12

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Wed, 10/03/2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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"Arctic Melt Down - Scientists Speak"

Radio EcoShock presents "Arctic Melt Down - Scientists Speak"

In 2012, the Arctic Sea Ice hit a stunning new record low. Rutgers scientist Jennifer Francis explains how this changes weather for billions of people in the Northern Hemisphere. Plus the Director of the Snow and Ice Data Center, Mark Serreze on record and what it means, and analysis from polar scientist Jennifer Bitz, U of Washington. In depth, direct from top scientists. 

Political Perspectives on 09/26/12

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Wed, 09/26/2012 - 9:30am - 10:00am
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Greg Palast on How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps
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The guest is investigative journalist Greg Palast, who reports for the BBC and The Guardian among others. Host Don Merrill speaks with Greg about his new book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps. They'll also preview Greg's talk at a benefit for KBOO tonight (9/26) at the Clinton Street Theater.

Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Armed Madhouse. He is best known in the US for uncovering Katherine Harris' purge of black voters from Florida's voter rolls in 2000. Palast's last book is Vultures' Picnic.

You can read his reports at GregPalast.com.

Political Perspectives on 09/26/12

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Challenging Metro’s urban and rural reserves plan
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Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Mary Kyle McCurdy, Policy Director and Staff Attorney with 1000 Friends of Oregon and Cherry Amabisca of Save Helvetia, a coalition of farmers, business owners, concerned citizens, neighbors, and residents of the greater Helvetia area who are working to protect the Helvetia community and its neighboring agricultural lands.

1000 Friends of Oregon is challenging Metro’s urban and rural reserves plan. The plan, designating over 28,000 acres as future urban land, was recently approved by the Land Conservation and Development Commission, bringing 1000 Friends to petition the Oregon Court of Appeals for judicial review on behalf of several local farmers.

Political Perspectives on 09/19/12

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Wed, 09/19/2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Money at Work
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Host Tessie Word speaks with economic sociologist Kevin Delaney about his book Money at Work: On the Job with Priests, Poker Players, and Hedge Fund Traders. Delaney is  interested in complex social and political issues that have a central economic component. They'll talk about how people in particular professions that have money as a central feature of their jobs (like hedge fund traders, fund raisers, debt counselors, poker players and religious clergy) learn to think about money within their professional training and day-to-day work lives.

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The Oregon Food Bank and Hunger in Oregon

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Wed, 06/30/2010
Host Kathleen Stephenson interviews Rachel Bristol, chief executive officer of the Oregon Food Bank, about hunger in Oregon at the present time. High unemployment and a tough economy has forced record numbers of people to seek emergency food. The Waterfront Blues Festival is the Food Bank's biggest fundraiser.
 
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H.P. Albarelli, author of "A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments"

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Wed, 06/23/2010

 Host Marianne Barisonek interviews H.P. Albarelli, author of A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments.  Albarelli writes about the mysterious death of biochemist Frank Olson, revealing the identities of his murderers in shocking detail. It offers a look into the backgrounds of many former CIA, FBI, and Federal Narcotics Bureau officials—including several who actually oversaw the CIA’s mind-control programs from the 1950s to the 1970s.   H. P. Albarelli Jr. is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in numerous publications and newspapers across the nation and is the author of the novel The Heap. He lives in Tampa, Florida.

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Matt Briggs on his documentary "Deep Green"

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Wed, 06/23/2010
Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher interviews local filmmaker Matt Briggs about his new documentary "Deep Green," which explores sustainability in 9 countries.  From the website: "Accompanied by an international team of award-winning cinematographers, filmmaker Matt Briggs takes us on a compelling journey to nine countries, including China, to uncover the best people with the best ideas, strategies and cutting-edge technologies that can get the job done… if we start now."
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Future of Boardman

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Wed, 06/16/2010
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Discussion on Israel's attack on Gaza aid flotilla

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Wed, 06/02/2010

KBOO speaks with Alison Weir of If Americans Knew, Peter Hart from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, and Gaza-based independent journalist Rami Almeghari on the Israeli attack Monday May 31st on a humanitarian aid flotilla on its way to the Gaza Strip.  Includes updates on the attack, discussion of US media coverage, and a description of the impacts of the three-year long siege on Gaza.

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Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim: "We are all water-babies."

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Wed, 05/19/2010

Stephanie Potter hosts a discussion of the Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers weaving a world that works. Her guests are Grandmother Agnes Baker-Pilgrim and Linda Neale of the Earth and Spirit Council.   Carol Hart's documentary on the 13 indigenous grandmothers "For the Next 7 Generations" is airing on Wednesday May 26th at the Hollywood Theater at 4122 NE Sandy Blvd.  (Doors open at 6pm, and the film starts at 6:30 pm.) Grandma Aggie is the descendant of tribal leaders, both political and spiritual, so she works hard to keep tradition alive and to renew it, as with the Sacred Salmon Ceremony that she has brought back to her homeland in the Rogue River Valley of southwest Oregon after 140 years.  Honored as a “Living Treasure” by her tribe, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz, and as a “Living Cultural Legend” by the Oregon Council of the Arts, Grandma Aggie is an exceptionally clear and strong speaker whose no-nonsense eloquence has touched people of many different cultures in the US and around the world. An Ambassador for our Mother Earth, she is a voice for the voiceless, seeking to prevent spiritual blindness by helping us to remember the ways of living that we all share as people of the Earth.  Agnes Pilgrim travels a lot of different lands being a “voice for the voiceless.” Agnes says alll things created need a voice and she is called to pray for the Bengal tigers, for animals in Africa, for wolves, for salmon, and for the Ganges River in India.

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Joseph Stiglitz:"Freefall: America, Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy"

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Wed, 05/12/2010

With host Stefan Kamph, Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about his latest book, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy.  Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor at Columbia, is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics. He was chair of the Council on Economic Advisors under Clinton. He also served as senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank. His efforts to move the bank in a more progressive direction got him fired.  He is the author of Globalization and Its Discontents, The Roaring Nineties, and Freefall.

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PDX Bike Ride 3/27 for Iraqi Refugees; and their fate in Iraq, the Middle East and the U.S.

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Wed, 03/24/2010
Host Tim Calvert interviews Zahra Alkabi, Director of Save Refugees about the Bike Ride for Iraq, a Benefit for Iraq Refugees and Protest Against the Iraqi People. They will also discuss the fate of Iraqi refugees in Iraq, the Middle East and the United States.
The Bike RIde for Iraq is Saturday, March 27th.
11am-2pm Gather at the foot of SE Salmon by the Vera Katz Statue
1:30pm-2pm Decorate BIkes with Iraqi Flags and signs
2pm-3pm-Ride South on the Springwater Corridor
3pm-"The Riders for Iraq" and others gather at the Sellwood Community Center, 1436 SE Spokane for information, fundraising and potluck.

Sponsored by Saverefugees.org and the Portland Iraq Solidarity Committee. 

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Economist Joseph Stiglitz: "Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy"

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Wed, 03/24/2010

 Host Stefan Kampf interviews Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz about his recent book, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, an account of the financial meltdown that criticizes the Obama Administration for 'muddling through' rather than pushing aggressively for change. Stiglitz is a University Professor at Columbia University in New York and Chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. He is also the co-founder and Executive Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia.

 
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13 Indigenous Grandmothers: "Mother Nature is angry. We must change. All of us."

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Wed, 03/10/2010

Stephanie Potter speaks with Carole Hart, director and producer of "For the Next 7 Generations," and Linda Neale, founder and board member of the Earth and Spirit Council. "For The Next 7 Generations," a documentary film chronicling the efforts of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers from the four directions to heal the earth & her inhabitants, will show at 4 pm on 3/14 at the Clinton Street Theater, 2522 Southeast Clinton Street, Portland 97202.

 

A fundraiser for the Earth & Spirit Council, the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers and The Oregon Food Bank. Tickets $8 in advance through Brown Paper Tickets or $10 at the door. Please bring non-perishable food item(s) for donation. For preview info go to http://www.youtube.com/carolehart.

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Hood River Development - Mr. Naito

Submitted by MarkLThron on Wed, 08/08/2012 - 10:58am.

Please ask Mr. Naito if his love of democracy extends to his business.   Would he be willing to turn his development firm into a employee run cooperative corporation, giving ownership and organizational rights to employees.   Mr. Naito's concern for democracy probably ends at doors to his corporation.   Mr. Naito looks at this battle to develop the Hood River riverfront property as a public realtions battle.   He will promise the community jobs and the city council financial support, and the council will eye the property tax revenue as a benefit to the community.   If he is successful,  once again we will be selling our responsibility to the land and the river for a short term gain.  Mr. Naito cares little for the community, but operates on greed.  If the environmental laws and regulations were not in place he would not be concerned at all with the impact of his development on the river, the wild life, and the ability of people to enjoy what nature have given us for free.

Bravo for having this debate, though.  And controlling the civility of the debate.

 

 

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