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Joe Clement hosts this special Earth Day Old Mole and we hear:

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The Fluoride Diaries: Part XVI. Aquatic ecology expert Howard Jay Patterson joins Abe and Joe to talk about the proposed fluoridation of Portland's drinking water supply.

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Bitcoin is in the news recently as the world's first online, decentralized currency.  What is it? How does it work?  What are the possibilities and pitfalls? Host Stephanie Potter speaks with local bitcoin and alternative currency experts who are rethinking the concept of money.

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Clayton Morgareidge hosts this action packed show covering the situation in Syria, the Pacific Northwest Labor History Conference coming up in Portland, getting over and beyond consumerism as the basis for social life, and gun violence and gun legislation.  

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Joe Clement hosts a special May Day Political Perspectives hour about the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a union for all workers with the revolutionary aspiration of abolishing the wage-system. They've been known as "the singing union", "the wobblies", and what Hunter S. Thompson once called "the last human concept in American politics". Notable founding members include Mother Jones, Emma Goldman, and Eugene Debs. A few members of the Portland Branch of the IWW appear as guests.

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The Move To Amend coalition is hosting a Democracy Convergence in Portland May 3-5 at Portland Community College.  Join David Cobbs and I in this conversation tomorrow from the Move To Amend Coalition and learn about the coalition and their Convergence this weekend.

As you may remember on January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions.

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Voters have received the Voters pamphlet and will get their ballots in the next few days. One of the biggest issues facing voters on May 21, 2013 is the issue of fluoridating water. Measure 26-151-ask voters ”Shall Portlanders fluoridate its drinking water supply”. Both sides of this debate were invited to participate in this conversation, unfortunately the pro-side didn’t respond. I will talk with Kellie Barnes, a local small business owner and a volunteer with Clean Water Portland on the No on 26-151 campaign. Have you decided? What questions do you have about fluoridation? Is it safe for food and pets? What questions do you have for the pro side? Let us know your thoughts! Join Kellie and I tomorrow morning from 8:30AM-9:00AM and join the conversation on Voices from the Edge.

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Host Per Fagereng speaks with Michael Klare, who offers a hair-raising look at how two trends on the planet -- growing resource scarcity and climate change -- are creating a formula for future disruption, social unrest, state collapse, and in the long run cataclysm.  

According to TomDispatch Media Alert:  “Resource shock” is a new term in our lexicon, but you’re going to become familiar with it soon enough on a planet that will be in increasing disarray -- Michael T. Klare, “Entering a Resource-Shock World, How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion.”

http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175690/

Thomas Linzey - Corporations, Communities & the Environment (lecture)

Jeffrey Clements: Who Owns Our Government?

Live broadcast of the final talk in the 2013 Illahee Lecture Series.

AN ATTORNEY AND AUTHOR, Clements is the co-founder of Free Speech for People, a national, non-partisan campaign challenge the creation of Constitutional rights for corporations, overturn Citizens United v. FEC, and strengthen American democracy and self-government. Clements is the author of Corporations Are Not People (2012).

Links to the past 2013 Illahee lectures broadcast on KBOO

http://illahee.org/