The Abe and Joe Talk Radio Show

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Abe, Joe Uris
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Every Tuesday from 8:00am to 9:00am. Retired October 2020

 

Call-in talk radio covering politics, history, and the state of the zeitgeist, with a liberal dose of listener comments.

 

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Race, LGBTQ, Police, Youth, Legislation, War/Peace, Women, Law/Court/Crime, Corporations, Economy, Education, Energy/Natural Resources, Community Building, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Civil Liberties, Activism, Environment/Climate, Humor, Housing/Homelessness, History, Immigration, Labor, Health, Government/Politics, Food, Global Affairs, Gender, Faith/Religion/Spirituality
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Retired

Occupy Wall Street comes to Portland -- and it's the real deal.

Airs at: Tue, 10/11/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   The Occupy Wall Street movement has come to Portland. Much has been made aboutwhat the movement is, what the occupiers want, and what their message is. It's really pretty simple -- it's about economic injustice. And it's the real dea... 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

labor protests in Longview, Wash., and dabble in Gen-X cultural milestones.

Airs at: Tue, 09/27/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris When the bottom fell out of the financial markets in 2008, lawmakers rushed to bail out the architects of the global crash. But this begs a question -- when will we decide to bail out the collapsed labor market? Abe and Joe examine the ... Read more

Has the Republican Party become the God Party? What do we DO about it?

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris.  Abe Proctor is on Vacation. Joe has noticed that all of the Republican Hopefulls for the 2012 Presidential Elections have Platforms draped in prayer flags, but not much else.  They all seem to be highly religious, and defer all talk of actual political... Read more

The Abe and Joe Talk Radio Show on 09/13/11

Airs at: Tue, 09/13/2011 at 8:00am - 9:00am
The Shock Doctrine: Author Naomi Klein's explanation of capitalism's use of disasters -- and the numb shock that accompanies them -- to carry out radical "free market" revisions. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Guantanamo to the PATRIOT Act, from Katrina to the financial cri... Read more

The Shock Decade: Abe and Joe look at the 10 years of post-Sept. 11 chaos and exploitation.

Airs at: Tue, 09/13/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris The Shock Doctrine: Author Naomi Klein's explanation of capitalism's use of disasters -- and the numb shock that accompanies them -- to carry out radical "free market" revisions. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Guantanamo to the PATRIOT Ac... Read more

Joe talks about Labor, the History of Labor, and the Decimation of Labor today.

Airs at: Tue, 09/06/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris.  Abe Proctor is off this week. Joe talks about Labor History in the United States, and the State of Labor today. ...And...  For your listening pleasure... ...And...  For your Reading Pleasure...       Read more

Joe Returns with a discussion on Who Really Controls America... And, What will we DO about it?

Airs at: Tue, 08/30/2011 at 12:00am
 Joe Uris Returns from his Summer Haitus, and Abe takes a week off. Today's discussion revolves around Who Really Runs da Joint...  Who?  Capital, that's who, certainly not We The People.  The top One Tenth of One Percent of Americans control that vast majority of wealth in ... Read more

Abe surveys the economic, social and political wreckage of the new age of austerity

Airs at: Tue, 08/23/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is still on vacation.   The current austerity fetish was never a good idea, and now we know it's bad politics, too. The austerity kick in Washington is exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time. At a time of enormous economic duress, ... Read more

Here's an idea, Mr. President: try governing the way you campaigned.

Airs at: Tue, 08/16/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor   What's a progressive to do these days? A federal court has declared the "individual mandate" provision of the health care bill to be unconstitutional, making it nearly inevitable that the case will find its way to the Supreme Court. Hmm, what sort... Read more