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Power to the People! How we can overcome SCOTUS reversal of Campaign Finance Reform!

Airs at: Wed, 02/24/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Recovery Zone
Under the guise of enforcing the free speech rights of the First Amendment,  the Supreme Court has reversed decades of campaign finance reform.  In a clearly partisan move, a majority of five justices has allowed corporations to spend unlimited cash on political advertising... Read more

Second LNG Fast

Airs at: Tue, 02/09/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Evening News
Late last week, Senate Bill Ten Twenty, also known as the Liquified Natural Gas Fast-Track Bill has been stopped in its tracks. Read more

Voices from the Edge on 02/18/10

Airs at: Thu, 02/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
  What's next in the Aaron Campbell case? Also, an interview with Oregon Attorney General John Kroger   Tuesday night, Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke to over 1,000 Portlanders at Maranantha Church about the "execution" of Aaron Campbell, the most recent victim of a police shoo... Read more

Will Aaron Campbell's death finally bring police accountability to Portland?

Airs at: Thu, 02/11/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
  Will Aaron Campbell's death finally bring police accountability to Portland?   A Multnomah County grand jury this week found no criminal wrongdoing by Portland police officer Ronald Frashour in the Jan. 28 fatal shooting of Aaron Campbell. The death of an unarmed young ... Read more

February 15, 2010 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 02/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, this show begins with several  discussions of work: how its wages are stolen, why it can be called slavery, whether work is necessary, and the value of "real" work.  In the second half of the program, we hear from a human rights activist just... Read more

Wage Theft

Airs at: Mon, 02/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Employers often fail to pay the wages workers have earned: they commit wage theft, affecting millions of American workers.   Kim Bobo is the author of Wage Theft in America, and in this interview she talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick  about the many ways this happens,... Read more

Reverend Dr. Leroy Haines of the Albina Ministerial Alliance about the recent Portland police killing of Aaron Campbell

Airs at: Mon, 02/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for It Takes A Village
 License To KillShaheed Haamid interviews Reverend Dr. Leroy Haines of the Albina Ministerial Alliance about the recent Portland police killing of Aaron Campbell and the community response to that action.  Read more

Voices from the Edge on 02/04/10

Airs at: Thu, 02/04/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
Haiti, Race and International Adoption The arrest of 10 American Baptists for attempting to take children out of Haiti without permission has rekindled the debate over international adoption. Many Americans believe the plight of Haitian children more than justifies removal ... Read more

Our Republic is broken. What is to be done? Let's call a Constitutional Convention and fix it.

Airs at: Tue, 02/09/2010 at 12:00am
 Our Republic is broken. What's to be done? With Joe on vacation, Abe tosses out a possible answer: a Constitutional Convention. Our Republic is broken. A lockstep minority, cloaked in arcane rules, can bring business to a complete halt. The influence of monied interests i... Read more

Supreme Stunner: Unlimited Campaign Spending Permitted for Corporate "Persons"

 An old friend of mine, Lynne Likens of Talent, Oregon, let me know that she was stunned by the recent Supreme Court decision to allow unlimited corporate spending in our elections, reversing decades of campaign finance laws and cementing the myth that corporations are "per... Read more