Joe Clement hosts and we hear:
Laurie Mercier interviews Peter Hart about his writing on media
revisionism, scapegoating, and the Iraq War.
Bill Resnick and Arun Gupta discuss the $15 minimum wage in Seattle and its
implications for further class struggle.
Cla...
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Bill Resnick talks with Arun Gupta about how the $15 minimum wage ordinance
that was recently passed by the City Council in Seattle came to be. Arun
points out how people are agitated by the bank-bailouts, the role played by
Socialist Alternative and Kshama Sawant's elec...
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Tom Becker hosts this latest report from the Old Mole, and we hear about
threats to privatize our Postal Service; the contradiction between capitalism
and a survivable planet; a novel about coming of age in a small town; and the
music and radical politics of saxophonist ...
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Since the founding of the US, the postal service has delivered mail quickly
and securely from any place in the country to any other place in it, all for
a price anyone could afford. Now many corporations and members of congress
want to break up this birthright and hand ...
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Dr. Benjamin Chavis is a civil rights pioneer. He led the NAACP in the early
90s and he was the director of the Million Man March. He is involved in a
number of self empowerment initiatives including a collaboration with media
mogul Russell Simmons to use hip hop as a ...
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Joe Clement hosts this episode about neoliberal education in the Chinese
context, the latest season of Orange is the New Black, We Are BRAVE (a
reproductive rights & justice project aimed at serving women of color), and a
proposed Communist Party of Cascadia.
Bill R...
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Joe Clement speaks with two communist organizers, Stephanie Martin and Daniel
Frontino Elash, about their plans to hold a meeting at Central Library 801 SW
10th (and Yamhill) on Monday June 23rd from 6-7pm in the US Bank Room. They
are calling for local independent commu...
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Oregon Community Media - Independent community radio and media working in
collaboration to better serve Oregon. OCM is composed of over 20 local and
independent community broadcasters. All share a commitment to community
service and to keeping local voices alive on the ...
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On the one-year anniversary of first news reports based on the disclosures of
former defense contractor Edward Snowden, KBOO spoke with Norman Solomon, the
director of the Insitute for Public Accuracy, about the current state of
legal protection for whistleblowers in the...
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Clayton Morgareidge offers a commentary on the "left" and the limits and
failures of Capitalism, drawing on work by Marta Harnecker, Thomas Piketty,
Slavoj Zizek, and John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff in Monthly Review.
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