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Munk's Musings:  Rede evidently didn't know or didn't ask West whether he's sticking to his campaign promise to become Obama's "fiercest critic" if he was elected.

Why Are We Still at War?  Tuesday 03 February 2009   by: Norman Solomon, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
 "The United States began its war in Afghanistan 88 months ago. "The war on terror" has no sunset clause. As a perpetual emotion machine, it offers to avenge what can never heal and to fix grief that is irreparable."

Human Rights Watch: Employee Free Choice Is a Human Right

The religious right is now in considerable disarray, though by no means disabled. What better time, and what better way, for religious progressives to help spur a big turn in our politics than to lend some help right now in restoring the central role of a progressive labor movement in advancing social justice?
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Did FDR "Act like a Republican?
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KBOO Fifth Monday LABOR RADIO HOUR 

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    Lane Poncy & Tim Flanagan  Host Fifth Monday Labor Radio: 
Lane is with the Oregon Alliance for Retired Americans, CWA Local 7901  - Communications Workers of America Local 7901 in Portland. and Tim is with Portland Community College FacultyFederation / AFT-Oregon / & Oregon AFL-CIO -- Oregon's labor federation /  Local 2277

Working People deserve Free Choice and Healthcare!

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

Labor Radio Collective

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