Tom Becker hosts this episode with segments featuring Jeremy Brecher on
Climate Insurgency, Denise & Joe on Housing Justice, and readings on the cost
of low wages and the radical promise of Reconstruction.
Bill talks with Jeremy Brecher about Climate Insurgency.
Tom reads ...
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Clayton Morgareidge reads from a piece by Alex Gourevitch in the current
issue of Jacobin "Our Forgotten Labor Revolution" arguing that the
Reconstruction of the South following the Civil War was ended because its
promise of freedom was threatening to go beyond the abolitio...
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Denise Morris and Joe Clement discuss housing as a human right, the broad
impact of rising housing costs, the Portland history of racism that has
contributed to the current housing crunch, the struggle for sustainable
solutions that go beyond isolated nuclear family homes, ...
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This week: Part one of our coverage of Seattle Hempfest, with audio from
attorney Doug Hiatt, New Jersey Weedman Ed Forchion, comedian Ngaio Bealum,
and Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
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Jan Haaken hosts this episode and we hear:
Bill Resnick interviews Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinehart on their new book
"A People's Curriculum for the Earth".
Jan Haaken talks with Katie Gentile about the controversy over
Planned Parenthood clinics and the sale of fetal...
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This week we talk with Cyd Maurer, the journalist who was recently fired from
her job as a TV news anchor in Eugene, Oregon, for testing positive for
marijuana; and with Kathleen Kane-Willis of the Illinois Consortium on Drug
Policy at Roosevelt University about their new r...
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Petitioners trying to recall state Senator Floyd Prozanski may have violated
Oregon election law.
The Oregon Democracy Fund filed a complaint with the Secretary of State’s
office yesterday. The complaint says that members of the campaign and
employees of gun stores did not ...
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This week we talk with Vivian McPeak, director of Seattle Hempfest, about
marijuana, Washington state medical and adult use marijuana laws, and about
Seattle Hempfest, which is August 14-16 this year.
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Individuals and families who live on boats in the Willamette River, some of
whom have done so for more than ten years, are facing new enforcement of
existing transient laws.
KBOO reporter Henry Leasia filed this report about their struggle to have
these laws changed.
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