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Steelworkers protest hazardous imports

program: 
Evening News
program date: 
Wed, 01/16/2008

 

On Wednesday, January 16, the local branch of the steelworkers union led a coalition of groups that marched on  Senator Gordon Smith’s Portland office.

The protestors called on the Senator to take action on the problem of imports that are hazardous to our health. 

 

3:46 minutes (3.45 MB)
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Steelworkers protest hazardous imports

program: 
Evening News
program date: 
Wed, 01/16/2008

 

On Wednesday, January 16, the local branch of the steelworkers union led a coalition of groups that marched on  Senator Gordon Smith’s Portland office.

The protestors called on the Senator to take action on the problem of imports that are hazardous to our health. 

 

3:46 minutes (3.45 MB)
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Interview with UNITE HERE Member and Hilton Hotel Worker

program: 
Evening News
program date: 
Wed, 01/16/2008

 

Workers at the Portland Hilton continue to urge local groups and companies to boycott the hotel until their union reaches a settlement with management.

KBOO's Jenka Soderberg spoke with Bruce Palamountain, a banquet server at the hotel and a member of the UNITE HERE Hotel workers union

 

3:53 minutes (3.56 MB)
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0116 Our Backyard

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program date: 
Tue, 01/15/2008

The latest edition of Our Backyard, the locally produced environmental series by Edison Carder. This addition: Owens Corning's plan to manufacture rigid foam insulation in Gresham.

4:08 minutes (3.8 MB)
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BLM-Bush "Whopper" would Whack our Woods

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program: 
Radiozine
program date: 
Tue, 01/15/2008

On Wednesday, January 9, Stephanie Potter spoke with Sean Stevens of Oregon Wild about Bush's "compromise" with the timber industry:  The Western Oregon Plan Revision or "Whopper."  Stevens describes how this plan would decimate old growth forests and salmon habitat on BLM lands, and offers common sense solutions.  (More info at www.oregonwild.org )

27:41 minutes (11.09 MB)
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Sound Recording of Iran-US Strait of Hormuz Vessels: Pentagon Sound Bites Included

program: 
Evening News
program date: 
Tue, 01/15/2008

 

The latest on last week's 'incident' between Iranian and US naval vessels is that senior Pentagon officials apparently used an off-the-record Pentagon briefing to create a sensational media campaign around what was a relatively minor event.

The initial press stories on the incident can all be traced to one press briefing, made by the Deputy assistant secretary of defense for public Affairs.

But the information released at that briefing has since been repudiated by the Navy itself.

3:54 minutes (3.57 MB)
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Is Dam Removal or Restoration Better:Saving Jobs, Salmon and the Klamath River

program: 
Evening News
program date: 
Tue, 01/15/2008

 

     A plan for the removal of four dams on the klamath River was announced on Tuesday. 

This plan follows two years of closed-door negotiations between farmers, Indian tribes, fishermen, conservation groups and government agencies battling over scarce water and fish protected by the Endangered Species Act.

Kit Brazier brings us the story.

 

3:56 minutes (3.6 MB)
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20,000 Comments on Logging Plan: Carbon Gas and Fantasy Profits

program: 
Evening News
program date: 
Tue, 01/15/2008

 

The Bureau of Land Management in Oregon has been swamped with more than 20,000 public comments about its “Western Oregon Plan Revision”, or 'Whopper - W-O-P-R.

The plan would allow logging on all of the Bureau of Land Management's land holdings in Oregon.

Although the public comment period ended on Friday, the plan is far from being finalized.

1:22 minutes (1.26 MB)
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