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Cutting Corporate Taxes: Richard Wolff

Airs at: Tue, 02/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Corporations are riding high in the saddle. With their friends in Washington they are raking it in. That certainly is the case with the tax law passed by Congress in late 2017. If you look at the details it is warmed over trickle-down economics. While most workers will g... Read more

Poor People's Campaign Brings Call for Morality and Justice to Salem

Airs at: Fri, 02/02/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This coming Monday, February 5th, a number of Oregonians will deliver a letter to the state capitol in Salem, as part of the nationwide Poor People’s Campaign. The campaign describes itself as "A National Call for Moral Revival," and is inspired by, though far from an exact... Read more

Protest Planned for Pro-Gun Event with Rep. Greg Walden

Airs at: Fri, 02/02/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Today, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden asked the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the US Treasury Department for documents that relate to alleged Russian efforts to funnel money to the Trump campaign. This is one week after the McClatchy news service reported that the FBI is i... Read more

ICE Raids in Northern California

Airs at: Fri, 02/02/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
In the last three days of January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents launched a massive immigration sweep in Northern California. It is the largest localized action of its kind since Trump took office. Businesses in San Francisco, Sacramento, and San Jose were serv... Read more

Commentary: Children as Pawns

Airs at: Fri, 02/02/2018 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    One of the less obvious takeaways from Tuesday’s State of The Union Address, was the willingness to look at children as political pawns, rather than the future of the country. KBOO’s Ray Bodwell has these thoughts: Read more

Passengers in Malheur Occupier Lavoy Finicum's Truck Sue State and Federal Officials

Airs at: Fri, 02/02/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Three passengers riding in Robert ‘LaVoy’ Finicum’s truck when he was shot and killed by Oregon State Troopers have filed suit against several parties, including Governor Kate Brown, Harney county officials, and FBI agents. Finicum was a spokesman for the Malheur Wildlife ... Read more

The Justice System’s War on Kids: Cara Drinan

Airs at: Tue, 01/30/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The juvenile justice system is off the rails. It is in urgent need of reform. The U.S. incarcerates roughly 2 million children every year, even though 95 percent of them have not been convicted of a violent crime. Too many of them are held in adult facilities. The system... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 29th 2018

Airs at: Mon, 01/29/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole  Greenwashing and Global Climate Justice: Bill Resnick talks to John Foran about corporate greenwashing and what must and can be done to save the planet.  John Foran is professor of sociology at the University of Califo... Read more

Kids at NORCOR Regional Jail

Airs at: Mon, 02/05/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Karen James interviews Sarah Radcliffe, an attorney with Disability Rights Oregon, about her investigative report “Don’t Look Around”: A Window into Inhumane Conditions for Youth at NORCOR, that found that kids held at the Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facility (NOR... Read more

Veteran's Affairs Police Shoot Man at Southern Oregon Facility

Airs at: Fri, 01/26/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  A veteran who may have been suffering from mental distress was shot by police at the Department of Veteran's Affairs' Southern Oregon Rehabilitation Center in White City yesterday. At this time, little is known beyond the information released by the Jackson County Sherri... Read more