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Get Ready for Occupy Portland

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Ivy Knight of the Occupy Portland rally about what it is, the organization involved, and how people can get involved. There are many items - food, rain-repelling supplies, musical instruments, etc. - that they need and which you can find solicited on... Read more

What The Wall Street Protests Get Right

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Mark Engler about the Wall Street protests, contexualizing them in terms of the economic crisis and global protests, as well as underscoring what they're doing right. Mark Engler is a writer and analyst at Foreign Policy. His website is www.democr... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 3rd

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and we hear:     Bill Resnick talks with Mark Engler about the Wall Street Protests. Jan Haaken talks with Bob Joondepth about legislative reform in the Oregon State Hospital. Joe Clement talks with Ivy Knight of Occupy Portland... Read more

Occupy Portland!!! Bob Kelly talks about The Occupation

Airs at: Tue, 10/04/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris. Today's guest is Bob Kelly, the Communications Representative from Occupy Portland, in to talk about this week's Demonstration. Thursday, October 6, 2011 Noon O'Clock Tom McCall Waterfront Park Under the Burnside Bridge We will Meet at the Waterfront, Ge... Read more

KBOO Evening News: Monday October 3, 2011

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
  Top headlines on tonight's newscast:   Three hundred thousand gallons of raw sewage spill into the Willamette River when a generator malfunctions at a West Linn water treatment facility.   A KBOO reporter talks with a prison advocate about Pelican Bay state penitentiary’s ... Read more

Report from Wall Street protest

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The “Occupy Wall Street’ protests in New York continue for the third straight week, despite over seven hundred arrests.  Protesters say they are confronting the corrupt financial system.   Despite the ongoing police crackdown, hundreds more people joined today’s marches, an... Read more

Libya: Qaddafi, the neighborhood bully? NATO, the mafia?

Airs at: Thu, 09/15/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
 Per Fagering connecting history with the latest world events focusses on Libya, and ponders "Who's worse, the local thug or a shadowy organization with tentacles everywhere?"  He starts out with an article from Afro: "Walter Fauntroy, Feared Dead in Libya, Returns Home—Gue... Read more

Michael Hudson looks at lender fraud, corruption

Airs at: Thu, 09/15/2011 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
Host Per Fagereng interviews Michael Hudson, Staff Writer at iWatch News about the legacy of corruption that still plagues Bank of America and a pattern of fraud at Countrywide Financial Corp., once the nation’s largest mortgage lender. Michael Hudson covers business and ... Read more

Democracy Movement comes to U.S.

Airs at: Thu, 09/15/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Theresa Mitchell with the "news you're not supposed to know." New tar balls in Gulf. BP now "the boss" there.  Media under-reports severity of Fukushima--nuclear disaster is ongoing. We need to take measures to take care of ourselves. U.S. records highest poverty rate ever.... Read more

Occupy Wall Street! Occupy Portland! Do Something!

Airs at: Thu, 09/29/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Theresa Mitchell with the news you're not supposed to know.  This week Theresa is inspired by "Occupy Wall Street!"   Also, new oil sheen in Gulf of Mexico -- oil leaking from giant cracks from BP disaster? Read more