An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council will consider possible new sanctions against Kim Jong-un's regime tonight. This comes after sirens sounded in Japan as North Korea fired a missile over the country early this morning. Yahoo news reports Tokyo warned citizens in the north of the country to take cover. Japan's warning system kicked in, advising people to take precautions, as the missile headed towards land in an escalation of Kim Jong-un's military posturing. The missile broke into three pieces and landed in the sea. It flew for around 17 hundred miles. The Pentagon confirmed the launch. An envoy from Pyongyang later accused the U- S of driving the Korean peninsula towards "an extreme level of explosion." The launch also prompted a warning from China that tensions on the Korean peninsula had reached a "tipping point”.
A Salem woman was sentenced yesterday for strangling a nine-week old puppy in January of this year. 44-year-old Meagan Lafferty pleaded no contest in court on Monday and was sentenced to one year in jail, followed by two years and four months in prison, on charges of attempted harassment and first-degree animal abuse. On January 30th, Lafferty was invited to stay with a neighbor after her apartment suffered damage from a fire. While at her neighbor’s house, she inexplicably strangled the neighbor’s puppy. A psychiatric evaluation at the Oregon State Hospital determined Lafferty was unable to assist in her own defense and was a danger to herself and others. She is said to have become socially isolated and paranoid in the weeks prior to the puppy strangling incident.
Police nationwide will be armed with 4.3 billion dollars of military weaponry. Police arsenals are now being expanded the new editions include grenade launchers bayonets and heavily armed vehicles. After the overexertion of power in Ferguson back in 2014 the 10-33 program which allowed the department of defense to supply police officers with surplus military gear was restricted by Obama. However, on Monday Attorney General Jeff announced that the White house was planning to continue the 10-33 program. Now that the restrictions on the 10-33 program have been reversed the police will be more armed than they have ever been only time will speak for what the future has to offer.
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>>The time is now 5:01 pm. That means it's time for your Tuesday Evening News.
>>And now your daily volunteer produced community newscast, the KBOO Evening News.
>>An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Counsel will consider additional sanctions against North Korea after it fired a missile over Japan.
>>KBOO’s Al Kahn offers commentary on Trump as the puppet of our wealthy corporate overlords and urges us to awaken from our technology-enhanced stupor.
>>And we re-play recent audio recordings by the fabulous Revolution Choir, a local group of 20 singer-songwriters who perform original songs dealing with social justice issues.
>> Tony: Good evening, this is the KBOO Evening News for Tuesday, August 29, 2017. I’m Tony.
>>Kyle: And I’m Kyle.
A Salem woman was sentenced yesterday for strangling a nine-week old puppy in January of this year.
44-year-old Meagan Lafferty pleaded no contest in court on Monday and was sentenced to one year in jail, followed by two years and four months in prison, on charges of attempted harassment and first-degree animal abuse.
On January 30th, Lafferty was invited to stay with a neighbor after her apartment suffered damage from a fire. While at her neighbor’s house, she inexplicably strangled the neighbor’s puppy, stating as she did so, “I am God, and I am here to end his misery.” Police reportedly had to physically remove the woman’s fingers from around the puppy’s neck, as she refused to let go even after the animal was dead.
A psychiatric evaluation at the Oregon State Hospital determined Lafferty was unable to assist in her own defense and was a danger to herself and others. She is said to have become socially isolated and paranoid in the weeks prior to the puppy strangling incident.
>> Tony: With all the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey one might think that the people who are still suffering in the aftermath would have enough problems. With flooding, property damage, and injury, as well as the clean up to come, there is another problem to deal with, large rafts of fire ants.
When flood waters drive these fire ants from their colonies they form together by locking jaws with each other and grabbing with the sticky pads on their legs, this forms them into huge floating masses comprising of millions of insects.
These rafts will drift until they reach solid ground where the ants will set about establishing a new colony.
The problems arise when a person who may be wading thru the water unwittingly comes into contact with one of these rafts as the ants will swarm the individual, delivering venomous stings that affects the nervous system and can trigger allergic reactions or in some cases hallucinations.
The good news is they have an Achilles heel, dish soap will break up the surface tension on the water causing the ant rafts to slowly break apart and sink.
Normally the rafts can stay afloat from one to three weeks before eventually sinking.
Major dish soap brands have yet to capitolize on this unexpected new use of their products.
>> Kyle: Police nationwide will be armed with 4.3 billion dollars of military weaponry. Police arsenals are now being expanded. The new editions INCLUDE grenade launchers, bayonets and heavily armed vehicles. After the overexertion of power in Ferguson back in 2014 the 10-33 program which allowed the department of defense to supply police officers with surplus military gear was restricted by Obama. However, on Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the White house was planning to continue the 10-33 program. Now that the restrictions on the 10-33 program have been reversed the police will be more armed than they have ever been. Only time will speak for what the future has to offer.
>> Tony: A Colorado man who told police that a black man stabbed him in the hand because of his haircut has been found to be lying.
26 year old Joshua Witt, has been arrested on charges of falsifying a police report after admitting he lied to officers saying a black man stabbed him because his hair is cut is in a style favored by white supremacists.
Witt reported to police that his attacker came up to him as he was getting out of his car near a restaurant and accused him of being a neo-Nazi before attacking him with a knife.
Police found a homeless man nearby who matched the description Witt had given, however Witt failed to identify the man in a lineup.
Surveillance footage taken near the scene did not show anyone running away from the area.
When police re-interviewed him Witt admitted to making up the story after accidentally cutting himself with a knife he had purchased from a nearby shop minutes before.
If convicted he could receive a fine of up to 2,650 dollars and a year in jail.
>> Kyle: Next a lesson from Hurricane Andrew from our partners at Climate Connections.
>>I'm Doctor Anthony Leiserwitz and this is Climate Connections.
>>25 years ago, Hurricane Andrew destroyed a housing camp for migrant workers near Miami.
>>[audio recording]: In the day prior to Hurricane Andrew, Everglades Labor Camp had 400 trailers and approximately 300 residents. In the day after Hurricane Andrew, there were fewer than 6 trailers standing, surrounded by approximately 50 acres of bent and twisted metal.
>>Steven Kirk is president of Rural Neighborhoods. A non-profit that provides housing to migrant workers in South Florida. He says, 'Luckily everyone had been evacuated. But the disaster showed how important it is to protect migrant workers when hurricanes strike, but doing so can be a challenge.'
>>[audio recording]: Most do not speak English as a first language. Most do not subscribe to a newspaper.
>>So it can be hard warn them of approaching storms. And when a hurricane hits, migrant's legal status can be another barrier.
>>[audio recording]: They're fearful to even approach someone or go to a shelter.
>>Hurricanes are expected to get more intense as the climate warms. With nearly 200,000 migrant farm workers and their families coming to Florida each year, addressing barriers to evacuation is more important than ever.
>>Climate Connections is produced by the Yale Center for Environmental Communication. Learn more at yaleclimateconnections.org.
>> Tony: The United States’ Food and Drug Administration has made a breakthrough decision to allow the use of MDMA, the drug commonly known as Ecstasy, to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
A protocol has been established for Phase 3 clinical trials of the drug, with the goal of helping shell-shocked war veterans, victims of sexual assault and other forms of violence, to recover from psychological damage.
The trials, which will combine psychotherapy with pharmacological doses of Ecstasy, are expected to begin next year and wrap up by 2021.
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies announced the decision with a press release last Saturday.
Patients under the influence of MDMA are reportedly able to access painful memories and work through them more readily than they normally would.
The FDA decision seems to set the stage for a legalization of MDMA as a prescribable pharmaceutical.
>> Kyle: And now we hear the latest in worker related news from our friends at Labor Radio dot org:
>>You're listening to W.I.N., Workers Independent News. A diversified media enterprises production. I'm Doug Cunningham.
Tired of working for Mickey Mouse low wages, 30,000 union Disney World workers began negotiations Monday for living wages. Wages are the only topic at the bargaining table. These Disney workers average abount ten dollars an hour now and the unions want a path to a fifteen-dollar minimum wage. The unions got Disney to improve wages in a last contract and these talks are a scheduled wage re-opener to see further improvements for the living wage. Ed Chambers is president at UFCW Local 1625 and heads the Service Trades Council of 6 unions representing the approximately 38,000 workers.
>>[audio recording]: Disney's first offer was not a bad offer. I mean they came out suggesting 2% for the employees at the job at every level and during the scale, 2.5%. Our proposal was pretty significant wage increase across the board. We asked for labor grade, which would mean every position would be in a labor grade and there'd be a scale so that employees would be coming at one raid. At 90 days it would go to a raid. At one year they'd be one-two years, three years, four years to five years at a topout.
>>Chambers says Disney is bargaining. In good faith, he says other employers in the Hospitality Tourist Industry in Florida pretty much match Disney's payscale. So more union density in Florida would help all workers get living wages.
>>[audio recording]: At Disney World, everybody else just matches and it doesn't help the union situation. It doesn't help the overall economy. We need to get some more hotels and resorts and the Hospitality Industry covered by a collective bargaining so we get a little competition and then we can do the standards that we have in a lot of other places in the United States.
>>The small group of Target workers in Christiansberg, Virginia ended their 5-day strike yesterday. They've returned to work without retaliation from Target. Their actions got Target to investigate a manager of sexual and racial harrassment of workers. Workers are demanding the manager be fired. Adam is with the New River Workers Power, a small independent workers committee.
>>[audio recording]: We've already won in a way and we're just gonna keep up the pressure on them and make sure this guy gets kicked out and we want to keep our jobs and we want to build up this and start talking to workers who got mixed up.
>>Brinn Feral is a New Rivers Workers Power member.
>>[audio recording]: We're in a more rural area of southwest Virginia. There's nearby a university town, and the next town over is where this Target is. So there's a strong mix of red and blue but the reality is labor is not a red or a blue [inaudible] hue with the community issue.
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>> Tony: And Now Labor History in Two with Rick Smith.
>>I'm Rick Smith, and this is Labor History in Two.
On this day in labor history the year was 1941. That's the day 2500 steel workers at the Pressed Steel Car company near McKee’s Rock, Pennsylvania walked off the job. It was the second walkout in two weeks. Workers effectively shut down production of armor plate for the Navy, shelf forgings for the Army and railroad cars used to transport military material. The company had gone back on promises of holding a collective bargaining election.
Steel Workers Organizing Committee sub-regional director, Abe Martin told the Pittsburgh press that while the union had not called the strike, workers had quote, 'walked out themselves because they are fed up with the company's discrimination against them'.
Swak had been trying to organizing the plan for years but the company had engineered an election for a so-called 'independent union' 18 months earlier when the complex was only operating at half capacity. Workers walked out at the beginning of the month and ended their strike on the guarantee that negotiations for a new election would begin. But when they returned, they found that some were stripped of their seniority while others were forcefully transferred to new departments.
The day before, machine shop workers on the afternoon shift were fed up and dropped their tools. Word spread throughout the evening and by early morning, picket lines were solid and production had come to a complete standstill. When the company tried to force re-opening of the plant after labor day, 1500 workers formed picket lines at the gate to stop scabbing.
They returned to work ten days in compliance with a request by the National Defense Mediation Board. The NLRB rejected Swak's election petition two months later. But Swak persisted and won exclusive bargaining rights the following June.
>> Kyle: Now we hear from our colleagues at Native Voice One for the weekly headlines at National Native News.
>>Antonia: This is National Native News, I'm Antonia Gonzalez.
Community members in Fargo, North Dakota gathered Monday to remember Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind. The 22 year-old went missing for more than a week before her body was found Sunday in a river. She was 8 months pregnant when she disappeared. A newborn baby believed to be Greywind's was found alive last week.
The Grand Fork's Herald reports Monday's vigil included jingle dancers and a ceremony. Vigils were held Monday in tribal communities in North and South Dakota. Another public vigil is planned to take place at the North Dakota state capitol Wednesday as native communities across the country plan to hold services to honor Greywind and all missing and murdered indigenous women.
Meanwhile, officials held a press conference Monday saying, 'two people, William Hone and Brook Cruise face a number of charges in connection with Greywind's disappearance.'
In the town of Durham, New Hampshire a mural depicting a Native American has sparked controversy. Jason Moon from New Hampshire Public Radio reports.
>>Jason: ...that issue is one image in the mural that was donated by local residents in the 1950s. It shows a Native American crouched behind a bush eyeing a colonial cabin. He's carrying a bow and arrows and in one hand is a flaming torch. The image is titled 'Cruel Adversity'. Some town residents and people of Native American heritage find the image derogatory. Kathleen Blake, a member of the New Hampshire Commission on Native American Affairs says, 'the image ignores the many acts of aggression committed by European settlers'.
>>[audio recording]: I mean, it could the other way around. The cruel adversity could be the settlers in the garrison house rather than the native people who already lived here.
>>Jason: Blake wants the image removed or covered. But others, including town counselor for Rose [unintelligible] says the image is nothing residents should be ashamed of.
>>[audio recording]: We should be taking pride in the [unintelligible], we should be taking pride in our local history. And I don't think white means of anything [inaudible].
>>Jason: The Postal Service says it's against policy to remove artwork in post offices. They have offered to install interpretive text to accompany the mural. For now the issue is on hold while the Commission on Native American Affairs decides whether they want to weigh in on the interpretive text or keep fighting for the mural's removal. For National Native News, I'm Jason Moon.
>>Antonia: A South Dakota school has announced the naming of two locations on its campus in honor of Native Americans. As Jim Kent reports, Blackhill State University will recognize the well-known Lakota educators in a ceremony this fall.
>>Jim: Blackhill State University will designate the Jace DeCory Center for American Indians Studies in recognition of the recent or retired professor's research in the areas of American Indian women, elder, art and traditional healing. The line at [inaudible] DIL Library is named in recognition of the educator's academic and personal achievements.
Bordoe has served as president of Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation since 1973. And is a 1964 graduate of the HSU. Blackhill State University president, Tom Jackson Jr. says, 'the school’s location lends to its association with Native American cultures.'
>>[audio recording]: We feel a natural connection to the spirituality of the hills and we believe that the institutions will be caretakers-the institutional caretaker for the Blackhills. So having a connection to the natives loved this region is just a natural extension of who we are as a university.
>>Jim: With the highest detention rate of native students in South Dakota, Jackson knows the travel members who attend BHSU stand a very positive chance of attaining their degrees. 5% of the student population at BHSU is native and includes travel members from South Dakota as well as Wyoming and Montana. For National Native News, I'm Jim Kent.
>>Antonia: And I'm Antonia Gonzalez.
>>Tony: You are listening to the KBOO Evening News. Stay tuned after this newscast for an in-depth report on Local Musical Collective, the Revolution Choir.
At 6, on the Queer-Boo Corner, it’s Preference with Allen Silver.
That’s followed at 7pm by Hardknock Radio – News and views from a hip-hop perspective.
Tonight’s weather: Crystal clear with a low of 69 in Portland. A low of 62 in The Dalles and Hood River. Cloudy and a low of 52 along the coastline. Tomorrow’s weather will be partly cloudy with temperatures hovering around 81 degrees in the Portland metropolis. Mostly sunny with a high of 84 in The Dalles. And clouds and rain with a high of 62 near Lincoln City.
Today in history, the infamous Hurricane Katrina blew ashore in Louisiana back in 2005.
Our quote of the day is from black author Zora Neal Hursten's book, 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' "Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still in awe. It takes its shape from the shore it meets and it's different with every shore.
>>Kyle: An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council will consider possible new sanctions against Kim Jong-Un's regime tonight.
This comes after sirens sounded in Japan as North Korea fired a missile over the country early this morning.
The city of Tokyo warned citizens in the north of the country to take cover while the event occurred.
Japan's warning system kicked in, advising people to take precautions, as the missile headed towards land in an escalation of Kim Jong-Un's military posturing.
The missile broke into three pieces and landed in the sea. It flew for around 17 hundred miles. The Pentagon confirmed the launch.
An envoy from Pyongyang later accused the U.S. of driving the Korean peninsula towards "an extreme level of explosion."
The launch also prompted a warning from China that tensions on the Korean peninsula has reached a "tipping point”.
British Prime Minister Theresa May is among those saying she’s "outraged" by North Korea's "reckless provocation" in firing the missile over Japan. The Prime Minister says she strongly condemns, what she calls, “these illegal tests.”
She is still taking off for a three-day visit to Japan today. Mrs. May will arrive in Kyoto tomorrow from London and plans to join Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on a train to Tokyo, where they’ll discuss trade and defense.
>>Tony: Next we have a report in from the International Middle East Center and Palestine Today.
>>Welcome to Palestine Today a service of International Middle East Media Center at www.imemc.org. For Wednesday [inaudible].
Israeli air attacks leave several injured civilians in Gaza as troops in various [inaudible] communities and injured [inaudible] civilians. These stories and more coming up. Stay tuned.
Israeli Air Force fired missiles on Wednesday at dawn into several areas west of Gaza City and Jabalia and the northern part of the bezieged and [inaudible] Gaza Strip, wounding at least seven Palestinians, including one who suffered a serious injury. Medical sources said that soldiers injured seven Palestinians including one who suffered life-threatening wounds after the army fired missiles into two areas northwest of the Gaza Strip.
The attack also led to excessive damage to several homes and structures near the targeted sites. The sources added that all wounded Palestinians were moved to a Shifa medical center west of Gaza City and that one of the injured remained in critical condition. In addition the Israeli Air Force fired missiles into our side, north of Bethlehem, the northern part of the Gaza Strip causing excessive damage to buildings and several surrounding homes.
In a statement that Israel's Hamas said that the attacks came under response to a homemade shell which was fired from Gaza into the Chof Askelon Regional Council during the late-night [inaudible] but landed in an open area causing no damage or injuries.
Elsewhere, dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded Wednesday at dawn the Dheisheh refugee camps south of Bethelehem and abducted two young Palestinian men after shooting them. Media sources said that the soldiers fired dozens of live rounds during their invasion and abducted Abdul Aziz Arafeh and Raed Salhi after shooting and injuring them. The Israeli Army said that one of its soldiers was injured during the invasion after extended fire with Palestinian fighters. The Palestine [unintelligible] Society, PPS has reported that Israeli soldiers have abducted on Wednesday at dawn at least 25 Palestinians, including children during massive military invasions and violent searches of homes in different parts of the [unintelligible] at West Bank.
In other news, dozens of Israeli soldiers accompanied by [unintelligible] invaded on Wednesday morning Palestinian cultural lands in [unintelligible] southwest of Bethlehem and occupied West Bank and [inaudible].
[music plays]
>>And that's all for today from [inaudible] news. This was the Wednesday, August 9th 2017 news run [inaudible] Palestinian territories. For more news and updates, please visit the website at www.imemc.org. Today's report has been brought to you by [inaudible].
>>Kyle: And now we have a commentary by KBOO’s Al Kahn.
>>Let's begin for a moment, talking Mr. Trump. But we're going to go much deeper. Trump as we all know wants us to think he's a billionaire. But in truth, he only plays one on TV. However, he is terrified of this being known. I suspect this is one of the many reasons that he won't release his tax information. The research I have done, while none of the information is absolute, leads me to believe that this man millions in debt with actually no personal wealth of his own. This makes him a very malleable person with the true rich.
The ones that George Carlin wants out they call, 'the owners of this country'. These are the people that decided we shouldn't have a good school system. The last thing these people want is a populous that are able to think for themselves. So they just teach you the test and pass them through. Now we wonder why there's a shortage of teachers in this country. And now what do the uneducated do? Not too many choices. A job at a fast-food restaurant, maybe a car wash. Or a few young men of color and you see the gang members selling drugs making thousands of dollars while your baby sister is starving. What choice are you going to make? And it's only a matter of time until you are another victim of a prison industrial complex. The other option is to enlist in the military to fight in our country's endless wars. And maybe die. And add to the fortune that someone could care less about you.
Trump is not the cancer that we face. He is merely a side effect. The owners have just finally decided that they cannot be stopped and found a perfect puppet to advance their agenda. These are the people to just name a few: The Koch brothers, the Waltons, who are the owners of Walmart, who are worth over 145 billion dollars. Yet the people that work for them still need to use food stamps to survive. And the Rothschilds who are in control in almost every bank in the world. And they claim to have a staggering fortune of 500 trillion dollars. These are the ones trying to divide us. Black, white, brown, Christian, Muslim, Jew. It's an age-old strategy, divide and conquer. Give people something to hate which will distract them from the real objective. This was the tactic of Hitler and Mussolini. Our government is controlled by these people; the biggest pharmaceutical companies, the big oil companies, the big energy companies, and these are also the cabinets controlled by the mainstream media. Only six companies really control the information the average person recieves.
Do you think the wars being fought in the United States are truly about our freedom? Or even about oil or other natural resources? No. These wars are all for profit. If there is no war, there is no need to keep making weapons. So there would no longer be a need to spend over 56% of the total United States budget on arms. Money which could be used to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure or to house the millions of homeless that we have in the supposedly richest country in the world. The country isn't rich. 1% is, while the rest must make some sort of a living and manages to barely keep a roof over our heads. God forbid a tragedy where a couple hundred dollars of the difference between the comfort of a place to live or the streets.
However it is now much easier to distract the populous. Everyone is so busy staring at their smartphones all the time that human interaction seems to be a thing of the past. Now's the time my friends to wake from a stupor that the ones who want to own us put us in and realize what these people really are.
To explain, as I see it, these people have a deep, dark hole inside them. They are terrified to look at it. The greed that has burrowed so deep inside them that their humanity is lost. No matter how much wealth they amass, no matter how much power, no matter how many possessions, that hole will never be filled. These people have sold their souls. And no amount of money will ever buy them back.
I'm Al Kahn, and I thank you for your attention.
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>>Kyle: And I’m Kyle. Coming up tomorrow on KBOO at 7, it's Democracy Now with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. At 8, it's Wednesday Talk Radio with Paul Roland. At 9 it's Political Perspectives and they take a look at the life Stokely Carmichael also known as Kwame Ture, who popularized a cry of black power and transformed from a civil rights activist to a Pan-African NSN socialist. At 10, it's Eric Cascadia, Headlines, Interviews and Commentary. At 10:15 it's flashpoints with Denise Berntstein. And at 11, Intersections Radio aims to connect communities through unique and unexpected stories. KBOO keeps you informed and involved and we need your help. Go kboo.fm and click on 'Donate' to become a member.
>>KBOO News In-Depth, where we take a deeper look at the top news stories impacting our community.
>>Tonight, we listen to a special replay of the Revolution Choir. A one-of-a-kind collective of musical individuals with a love of harmony and dedication to social change.
*>>Zelos: Welcome to another KBOO News In-Depth. This evening, we have special guests in the studio. Tonight, we are featuring the Revolution Choir. They are a group of 20 super-fun and energized choristers that sing original compositions about progressive, political topics that are on the pulse of our nation. They sing powerful songs in four-point harmony, about subjects such as equal pay for equal work, climate change, gerrymandering, income, inequality, money and politics, LGBTQ rights, Black Lives Matter, honoring women and many other important progressive values. They recently opened for Good in the Hood, they are founded and directed by Kevin Levy. Welcome Revolution Choir and Kevin.
[Choir Cheers Loudly]
>>Kevin: Hello!
>>Zelos: Hello! [laughs]
>>Kevin: It's so good to be here at KBOO. Thanks for having us.
>>Zelos: [laughs] Thank you for coming. So how long has Revolution Choir been around?
>>Kevin: You know, I think we're coming on five months.
>>Zelos: I'm really shocked about that.
>>Kevin: [laughs] Yeah.
>>Zelos: I feel like, I I - I think we've talked a little bit about this. I - I feel like there's gotta be several years under your belt so far.
>>Kevin: No, our - our singers here like they just sound amazing and they - they're just pulling it together and just
>>Zelos: [laughs]
>>Kevin: A lot of great friends of mine and they have great vocal chords.
>>Zelos: Awesome! You're making waves, 5 months!
>>Kevin: Tidal cord waves.
>>Zelos: Tidal cord waves. So, you're gonna sing us a song.
>>Kevin: Our first song we are gonna do is Overworked and Underpaid.
>>Zelos: Alright.
[Music Starts]
[Revolution Choir starts singing]
When I wake in the morning
I just lay in bed and close my eyes
Cuz my bones are so tired, are so tired
I can hardly stand?
Feed my kids
Rush them off to school
Pay for after care
Pay for nanny care
Cuz I know
I'll be gone all day
I'll be gone all night
Just to make ends meet
To make ends meet
I'm overworked and underpaid
Two full time jobs on not a livable wage
I'm busting my ass
I can barely pay rent
I'm a sick day away from living in a tent
I'm overworked and underpaid
Ahhhhh Ahhhh
*Piano and guitar play in Musical Interlude*
When I wake in the morning
I just lay in bed and close my eyes
Cuz my bones are so tired, I'm so tired
I can hardly think
The cost of life
Keeps on rising up, it keeps rising up
Every single year
But my wage, oh it hasn't changed
No it hasn't changed
I'm stuck with minimum wage
To make ends meet
I'm overworked and underpaid
Two full time jobs on not a livable wage
I'm busting my ass
I can barely pay rent
I'm a sick day away from living in a tent
I'm overworked and underpaid.
Ahhhhh Ahhhhh
I'm overworked and underpaid
Ahhhhhh Ahhhh
I'm overworked and underpaid
Ahhhhh Ahhhhh Ahhhhh
*Piano plays last keys*
>>Zelos: That was pretty fantastic! Uh, what's the next song? That was tasty.
>>Kevin: We can have a congress with a 12 percent approval rating and yet over a 90 percent re election rate. And it is rigged so bad that that is jerrymandering right there. A congressman can manipulate and draw those districts so, so evil that basically it makes it impossible to ever vote him out of office. So we must - if you live in a jerrymandering district and thankfully Portland does not. But somewhere out there you are listening to this. Vote for an independent commissioning district for free, equal, and balanced voting districts. We are gonna do Jerrymandering.
{Piano stars playing]
Ohhhh Ohhhh
Ohhhh Ohhhh
You've got elected legal thievary
Manipulating district boundaries
We never wanted your policies
But you're forcing us to drink your disease
Ohhhh Ohhhh
Ohhhh Ohhhh
Generals? and media
You need to come and film some failed politicians
Attacking and attacking
They only got elected because of
Jerrymandering!
Jerrymandering!
Jerrymandering!
Jerrymandering!
Jerrymandering!
Jerrymandering!
We'll let you go only if he loses?
*piano plays upbeat tune*
Person 1: Hey Congressman?
Person 2: What?!!!
Person 1: Try to get elected in my district.
Person 2: Yeah, easy!
Person 1: No, I mean without jerrymandering!
Person 2: Nooooo!
Person 1: Yeah I didn't think so!
They manipulated the districts
They redrew the boundaries
He manipulated the posts?
*piano plays upbeat tune*
They're not allowing the voters to choose them.
But instead he chose the voters!
Let us repeat that!
They're not allowing the voters to choose them.
But instead he chooses the voters!
That's so shady
That's so slimy
That's discrimination
If you live in these districts
You must confront your representatives
And ask them do you think
That you can get elected by the people
Without your
Jerrymandering!
Jerrymandering!
Jerrymandering!
Jerrymandering!
Jerrymandering!
Jerrymandering!
>>Zelos: Wow! That was really something! All of you are so powerful! Tell our audience about the performances that you've got coming up for the...
>>Kevin: On July 8th at the Laurelhurst Park, the Revolution Choir will be performing at 3 pm. And we would love for you all to come visit us. And you can actually get the - the invite if you just go to Revolution Choir dot com and there's a direct facebook invite. Or you could just go to facebook dot com slash Revolution Choir and find that invite! And we would love to see you there, it's gonna be so fun! There's gonna be an opening act going on before us, Resist Sing, comes on right at 3. And we are following them. And we would definetely love to see you. And you're getting just a little taste of what we are right now. And July 8th, Laurelhurst Park. If you know where that duck pond is and that uh little dog park where it's off leash... You could just go and check us out there.
>>Background voice: We'll be on a leash! [Choir laughter]
>>Zelos: I think our audience is dying to know whether there are Revolution Choir groupies at this point. I know it's early in the game.
>>Kevin: That's a great question. All of you listening right now...
[Background laughter]
>>Kevin: You are our very first groupies!
>>Background voice: May you all feel blessed.
>>Kevin: Thank you. Thank you.
[Background laughter]
>>Zelos: [laughs] That's wonderful. So, do you - are you writing all the material yourself? Is that right?
>>Kevin: Correct.
>>Zelos: Do you have think tank sessions where you get together and you're like "what awful thing happened in the news this time that we need to write a song about?"
>>Kevin: Um, it's a little bit of both. I - I love hearing feedback from certain choir members that just uh will give something off their heart.
>>Zelos: Aww.
>>Kevin: And then I kinda come home to my garage and late at night, pull up the guitar and start writing songs and -
>>Zelos: I love that picture you just painted.
[Background Laughter]
>>Zelos: Deep into the dark of the night, after political corruption has happened, Kevin Levey composes songs of resistance.
[Few laughs]
>>Kevin: That's right.
>>Zelos: That's wonderful. [laughs] Are there choral openings right now? Do you accept more chorusters or is it a special club? I dont know...
>>Kevin: We would - that's such a good question. If you are a first soprano,
[Choir erupts in laughter]
>>Kevin: Or if you are a deep bass
[Laughter]
>>Kevin: We would love for you to contact us. Kevin Levey, I'm the man, contact me.
>>Zelos: Ok. Well without further a due let's dive into another song.
>>Kevin: Our next one is Love Conquers Hate.
*Piano starts playing*
Don't you know
That Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter
Yes they do
*Verse continues with each verse overlapping the last one*
We've got your back
LGBT
LGBT
LGBT
We've got your back
Mexicans and
Latinos are lovely
Latinos are lovely
Latinos are lovely
Yes they are
Refugees
You're peaceful people
You're peaceful people
You're peaceful people
Refugees
Love Conquers Hate
Conquers Hate
Conquers Hate
It always does
Love Conquers Racism
Conquers Racism
Conquers Racism
That's all you need
That's all you need
That's all you need
All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love
Love is all you need
All you need is love
And affordable housing!
All you need is love
And the right to marry who you want!
All you need is love
Love love
Love is all you need
>>Zelos: I'm Zeloszelos Marchandt. You're listening to a special In-Depth featuring the Revolution Choir. Do you want to send us out on one final song?
>>Background voice: We'd love to!
[laugh]
Respect. Respect.
Equal pay for equal work.
Equal pay for equal work.
Equal pay for equal work.
Equal pay for equal work. Hallelujah!
Equal pay for equal work.
Equal pay for equal work.
Equal pay for equal work.
Equal pay for equal work. Hallelujah!
Women sweat equally – Women think equally –
Women work equally and they deserve equality.
Yeahhhhhhh!!!
Respect!
She is powerful, she is strength, show her full respect or get out of her damn way.
She is valuable, she is deserving, show her full respect or get out of her damn way.
Equal pay for equal work.
Equal pay for equal work.
Equal pay for equal work.
Equal pay for equal work. Hallelujah!
Equal pay for equal work.
Equal pay for equal work.
Equal pay for equal work.
Equal pay for equal work. Hallelujah!
Women sweat equally – Women think equally –
Women work equally and they deserve equality.
Yeahhhhhhh!!!
Men of quality don’t fear equality.
The future is female.
The future is female.
The future is female.
The future is female.
Hallelujah-Hallelujah-Hallelujah-Hallelujah!!
>>Zelos: For those just tuning in, we're wrapping up a very special In Depth featuring the Revolution Choir. They are performing July 8th at Laurelhurst Park. By the very beautiful scenic duck pond.
[Background laughter]
>>Zelos: Um and they have an opener who is...
>>Kevin: Resist Sing.
>>Zelos: Resist Sing. Thank you so much Kevin Levey and Revolution Choir for taking time to come in and sharing your songs of resistance with our community and our audience. Thank you!
[Choir Claps and Cheers]
>>Kevin: Thank you so much, thank you!
[what seems to be jazz plays for the rest of the recording]
(End of Transcription)
- KBOO