THE POLITICS OF AUSTERITY
Governments around the world have characterized spending as reckless
wastefulness that has made the economy worse. They have advanced a policy of
draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis.
But the global turn to austerity, o...
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What is the right human population? The current seven billion? More? Less?
Zero? Alan Weisman is the author of the best-selling The World Without Us, an
examination of what would happen to the natural and built environments if
people suddenly disappeared. Now, in his new...
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A special program hosted by Joann Hardesty with elders of Portland's civil
rights movement, talking about the 50th anniversary of the March on
Washington.The Albina Ministerial Alliance, along with community partners
such as the Urban League of Portland, the NAACP of Por...
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Part 2 of a special program hosted by Joann Hardesty with elders of
Portland's civil rights movement, talking about the 50th anniversary of the
March on Washington.
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Part 3 of a special program hosted by Joann Hardesty with elders of
Portland's civil rights movement, talking about the 50th anniversary of the
March on Washington.
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Tonight we are pleased to present the second collaborative project of Oregon
Community Media, Independent Community Radio and Media working in
collaboration to better serve Oregon. OCM is a new collaboration composed of
more than twenty local and independent community br...
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At 4 pm we shift gears again and move westward to South America. We'll begin
with an interview with Eduardo Galeano, author of Open Veins of Latin
America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, which set a new
standard for historical scholarship of Latin America ...
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At Noon, we'll shift focus to sub-equatorial Africa:12:00 - interview
with Fred Pearce, author and environmental journalist based in London, about
his latest book The Land Grabbers: The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth.
Then it's our first musical interlude, featuring a...
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At 8am, we'll begin our tour in Oceania / Australia / Antarctica focusing on
topics related to global warming and climate change, including a call from
Palmer Station on Antarctica's peninsula (map). We'll air this week's talk
by noted environmental activist, author and ...
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