Labor Radio Collective
 

 Information for KBOO Guide:  KBOO Labor Radio: 
“The only program of its kind in the Pacific Northwest:
   For the Working Class by the Working Class”

The Labor Radio Collective –
 Al Bradbury, Kevin Card, Tim Flanagan, Jamie Partridge, Lane Poncy,
Deborah Schwartz, Peter Shapiro, John Walsh, & Bill Zimmerman
(Includes input from Barbara Byrd, Michael Morrow, Don McIntosh, et al)

February programs:

1^st – Bill Z. – Anne Feeney 

2^nd – Al & Deb – Barbara Byrd on Climate Change Conf & Brian Miller of United for a Fair Economy on the State of the Dream (update on Laurelhurst village)

3^rd – Kevin – VOZ action against wage theft & JWJ Faith Labor committee/ breakfast
                       Portland Teachers Union Struggle… and Promotion for upcoming events:
         Thursday, February 18, 2010  /  7:00 p.m.  At 4312 SE Stark Street, Portland, OR 97215
          Wage Theft in America: An evening with Kim Bobo
          and Friday, February 19, 2010 / 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm / at SEIU  6401 SE Foster Road, PDX, OR 97206

 4^th – Peter & Al – Gloria Bettancourt / 80’s Strike History: Watsonville & Hormel

 

March programs

1^st – Bill Z -- ?    Labor Radio as an organizing tool?  Organizing for jobs, jobs, & more jobs…
         Possible Update on Portland's  March 4th National Day of Action to Defend Education
           Portland State University Smith Building, Parkway North Room (Near Cafeteria)

2^nd – Deborah & Al - ?  As ranks of the homeless increase, PDX police attitudes may need
         adjustment.  (citizens beaten to death and shot, homeless shuffled from block to block)
         Too many working people are a paycheck or two from being homeless.                                        

3^rd – Kevin – ? May discuss returning vets and jobs creation:  Corporate Welfare vs
        Investment in job creation (Possible resource: Mary King)  update on Faith Labor Breakfast 

4^th – Peter & Jamie – Labor for Single Payer Conf & PPS Teachers struggle/ JWJ updates          
        Pondering immigration, healthcare, faith/labor breakfast, Northwest Workers Justice Center

5^th – Lane & Tim – We have an interview with a noted local writer, S.L. Stoner on March29th. She is native of the Pacific Northwest who has worked as a citizen change agent and as a labor union & civil rights attorney for many years. Her recent work to be discussed is Timber Beast  (www.yamhillpress.com) For 10 years, union attorney Susan Stoner has had a secret: In between arbitrations and grievance-handling, she’s been moonlighting as mystery novelist S.L. Stoner.
http://www.nwlaborpress.org/2009/1106/11-6-09ATU.html

 Also a History segment on Salem Labor Museum 
And Updates on Labor-Sponsored Demonstration in Washington
for Jobs, Peace and Justice and An Activism Update for PDX 

April programs

1^st – John & Jamie (filling in for Bill Z) -- Kim Bobo and/or NW Worker's Justice Project

2^nd – Deb & Al – Si Kahn  Labor Rights Under Attack, and How Two Groups Are Standing Up and Fighting Back  The two interviews:

 - one of the fired reporters and union activists from the Santa Barbara News Press

- a leader of the 2008 sugar cane cutters strike in Colombia

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