Dan Jaffee speaks with Alejandro Queral, Executive Director of the Oregon
Center for Public Policy, about the legacy of fiscal austerity in Oregon, and
the possibilities for raising substantial new corporate tax revenue in the
2019 state legislative session.
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Bill Resnick talks with labor lawyer Jay Youngdahl about his article on
"Bolstering Retirement Security" in the Fall 2018 issue of New Labor Forum.
They discuss the loss of defined benefit pensions and the need to keep
defending Social Security.
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Frann Michel hosts this New Year's Eve episode.
Bill Resnick offers the first part of a three-part interview with Kristian
Williams about how to keep police from supporting the far right. Part One
focuses on the modern history of police strategies to suppress left insurg...
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Joe Clement reflects on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report
saying we have a little over a decade to dramatically change every part of
society to constrain global warming to 1.5 degrees Centigrade. Will a Green
New Deal make a difference? Only, Joe argue...
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Bill Resnick offers the first part of a three-part interview with Kristian
Williams about how to keep police from supporting the far right. Part One
focuses on the modern history of police strategies to suppress left insurgent
protest, demonstrations, and actions—includi...
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Desiree Hellegers talks with three of the four members of the Portland band
Heavy Nettle — Tara Hopebringer, Jordan Mac Intyre, and “Sweet Potato“
— about their organizing work and their songs on climate change, community
and resistance.
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Tom Becker reads from an articleby J.M. Opal, “Here's Why America's
Constitution Won't Save Us from Trump”; Opal, an Associate Professor of
History, McGill University, argues that both 18th century Britain and present
day America were/are plutocracies hidden beneath a pa...
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Dan Jaffee talks with Russell Lum about Trump's recent renegotiation of
NAFTA--the 24-year old North American Free Trade Agreement--and what it means
for capital, labor, and the environment. Russell Lum is Trade Justice
Coordinator of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, a co...
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Frann Michel hosts this episode, which features these segments:
Zoe Leonard reads “I Want a President”
Bill Resnick talks with Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies
about post-election prospects
Tom Becker reads from an article about why the US constitution ...
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