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Mon, 07/04/2016 - 9:00am to 10:00am
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Joe Clement hosts this 4th of July episode and we hear:
- Bill resnick talks with Patricia Smith, former union organizer and lobbyist, about the plight of school-workers who make less than $15 and their importance in our educational communties.
- We hear a short documentary about Karl Marx's views on capitalism, alienated labor, ideology, exploitation, and economic security.
- Larry Bowlden reviews a non-fiction book, "The Sixth Exinction: an unnatural history", by Elizabeth Kolbert.
- On the fourth of July, Frann Michel comments on Black political oratory -- from Frederick Douglass's comments on the ironies of a slave nation celebrating a declaration of liberty and equality in "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" (1852) to Jesse Williams's excoriation of oppression and exhortation to action at the BET awards last month.
- Bill returns to talk with Jim Cook about the Just Transition project and forum coming to Portland.
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