In 1993, KBOO AM News Director Kathleen Stephenson interviewed Susan Dobrof about the Bread and Roses Collective and its creation in 1978.

Well-read Red, Frann Michel, reads an article from the website of Solidarity, a socialist-feminist-antiracist organization, and adds some comments at the end.  The article is about Assata Shakur and the government's recent campaign to smear her as a terrorist by naming her one of the FBI's most wanted. The situation bears an uncanny similarity to what Cara Dugas was saying just a couple weeks earlier about labeling environmentalists as eco-terrorists.

Bill Fletcher is a long-time racial justice, labor, and international activist, scholar, and author.  He has served in leadership positions with many prominent union and labor organizations, including the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union.  Fletcher is the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum and is the coauthor, with Fernando Gapasin (heard here introducing Bill Fletcher), of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice.  Fletcher was in Northeast Portland, speaking at an event sponsored by the International Socialist Organization on May 18th, 2013 as part of a tour promoting his new book: "They're Bankrupting Us" and Twenty Other Myths about Unions.

Portland citizens voted in the Arts Tax last November, but since then the proposed tax has met with numerous issues, and still has not gone into affect.