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Voices from the Edge on 09-23-2010

Airs at: Thu, 09/23/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
#cg_msg_content div { margin: 0px; } Insecure in our homes - insecure on the streets: A look at the growing foreclosure crisis and at the upcoming rally for police accountability A growing number of Oregonians face foreclosure as the housing crisis continues to unfold. ... Read more

THE US & YEMEN; DESTROYING LIVES IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY

Airs at: Thu, 09/23/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  A Deeper Look
The well known Yemeni activist and journalist, Tawakkol Karman joins host, Linda Olson-Osterlund to talk about the government repression being carrried out in Yemen in the name of the "War on Terror" and about the ongoing struggle for freedom of the expression, including th... Read more

Lisa Dobson and The Moral Underground: How Ordinary People Subvert an Unfair Economy

Airs at: Wed, 09/22/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Host Lisa Loving speaks with Lisa Dodson, a public sociologist at Boston College whose research interests include poverty, public policy, and low-income work and family life. She also specializes in collaborative research methods, conducting inquiry that includes the thinki... Read more

John Perkins, the Economic Hit Man, talks about how to fix our broken Global Economy

Airs at: Tue, 09/21/2010 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris Author John Perkins joins Abe and Joe to explain why the global economy tanked and how we can fix it John Perkins, a self-confessed former "economic hit man" and author of "Hoodwinked" and "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" returns t... Read more

"Look at us." John Trudell

  At times they were kind, they were polite in their sophistication, smiling but never too loudly acting in a civilized manner an illusion of gentleness always fighting to get their way. while the people see, the people know, the people wait, the people say the closing o... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 09/16/2010

Airs at: Thu, 09/16/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
div { margin: 0px; } Who should be Multnomah County's next District 2 Commissioner? A candidate debate with Karol Collymore and Loretta Smith Providing essential social services in a time of growing demand, replacing the Sellwood Bridge, competing with Portland for scar... Read more

The Story Behind Shark's Fin Soup; Grand Central Bakery's Piper Davis

Airs at: Wed, 09/15/2010 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
  The Food Show is back after our summer hiatus!   First, we look at the local (and international) controversy over shark's fin soup. Researchers estimate that as many as 73 million sharks are slaughtered each year for their fins. We have two in-studio guests. Portland ... Read more

The D - US Social Forum 2010

Airs at: Wed, 07/21/2010 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
This June, the US Social Forum took place in Detroit, Michigan.  Circle A Radio brings you audio from this massive convergence of movement elders, social justice activists, and community organizers from all over the United States and the World! This program features Sophia... Read more

Left and the Law: Violence, Drugs and Mexico

Airs at: Wed, 09/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Jan Haaken talks with Mike Snedecker, an appellate lawyer, in another installment of the Left and the Law. Today they discuss violence near the Mexican border and portrayals of this violence in the United States as simply a Mexican problem. Fueling the violence are U.S. fo... Read more

Well Read Red: Economic Growth Does Not Mitigate Poverty or Inequality

Airs at: Wed, 09/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Well Read Red, Tom Becker, draws on two articles* to connect the ideology of economic growth with growing poverty/unemployment and growing concentration of wealth. *Dave Lindorf's "Obama's Rose-Colored Glasses: Growth Has Little To Do With Jobs or Reducing Poverty" *David ... Read more