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August 17, 2009 So, apparently public debate about health care is ... intimidating somehow, because more and more folks are showing up to town hall meetings with guns. From the Arizona Republic: A man, who decided not to give his name, was walking around the pro-health care... Read more

August 10 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Sun, 08/09/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker (pictured here) hosts this show dealing with racism, the WTO, anti-tax protests at healthcare reform meetings, and mountain top removal coal mining.   It features music from Woodstock as we approach the 40th anniversary of that historic festival.     For inform... Read more

Battle for Seattle Ten Years On

Airs at: Sun, 08/09/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Ten years after the Seattle anti-WTO protests, actions are being planned for this November and December.  Tom Becker reads David Korten's piece from Yes Magazine about the need for ongoing protests against Wall Street's strangle-hold on the Earth.  For more information on ... Read more

Dan Leahy at Forum on Building a People's Economy

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Roberta Hall, a member of Alternatives to War and the Rural Organizing Project (RPO), covers a presentation by Dan Leahy a friend of RPO and former professor at Evergreen College. Leahy talks about economic and progressive social issues at an RPO forum called "Building... Read more

Nury Turkel speaks on China's crackdown on Uighurs

Airs at: Sun, 08/02/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Rebiya Kadeer is the head of the World Uighur Congress. She’s emerging as a sort of Dalai Lama for the Uighurs, an exiled spokesperson who draws the ire of the Chinese government. They blamed her for instigating the riots in Urumqi earlier this month, and now they’re condemn... Read more

The Emergency We Face: Corporate Rule!

Airs at: Wed, 07/22/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Presswatch
     On the 7/23/09 Presswatch, Theresa Mitchell with "the news you're not supposed to know."  When the symptoms are war, propaganda, poverty, environmental collapse, overcrowded prisons, currency collapse, loss of civil liberties, give-aways to the super-rich, and more ---... Read more

Goldman Sachs lives high on the taxpayer dole

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2009 at 5:00pm
 Goldman Sachs lives high on the taxpayer dole  Hosted by: Abe Proctor  (Joe Uris is on vacation)   Abe digs in to a smokin' hot piece in Rolling Stone by Matt Taibbi, about how Goldman Sachs -- and a who's-who cast of Goldman alumni -- has for years engineered speculativ... Read more

Masters of the Universe, Redux

July 21, 2009 Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi gets to the heart of how one investment banking firm, Goldman Sachs, has engineered bubble after speculative bubble in the marketplace for years, always positioning itself to prosper in the wake of each disaster -- often at taxpayer... Read more

Portland Central American Solidarity Committee

Airs at: Tue, 07/14/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Locus Focus
 This morning on Guest Host Trillium Shannon speaks with members of the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC), about the history of solidarity work, current events and trends in Latin America, and how local communities are responding.  Live, in the studio w... Read more

Portlanders break the blockade on Cuba!

Airs at: Tue, 07/07/2009 at 5:00pm
For more than 40 years, the Cuban people have faced an economic, commercial and financial blockade by the government of the United States of America.   Cubans say this is one of the most cruel, inhuman and prolonged policies of hostility endured by any people in the history ... Read more