Police arrested 12 people at the University Station Post Office in downtown portland, yesterday.Nearly a hundred people were at the demonstration, protesting cuts to the United States Postal Service and calling for Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe’s resignation.Portland Police made the arrests at about 7:30, an hour and a half after the station was supposed to close.
These are the tools the Obama administration is using in Yemen. Are they stabilizing the transition to Democracy or an attempt to stop Yemen's Arab Spring before real democracy can take hold and assure a place for the US Military to expand on the Arab Peninsula? Join host Linda Olson-Osterlund and her guest, Yemeni American human rights activist Ibraham Qatabi. They discuss the role of the U.S. in Yemen, Al Qaeda on the Arab Penisula and more!
Day five of the Reynolds teachers strike was calm compared with earlier in the week. Teachers rallied for a few hours in the morning and waited for the results of a mediation/ negotiation session. Despite union agreement to the district's economic demands earlier in the week, the school board continues to insist on dramatic takeaways in working conditions and basic union rights. Labor reporter Jamie Partridge talks with strike organizer Emily Crumm, a kindergarten teacher at Alder Elementary School.
From Palestine to the Pacific Northwest - The Nakba, Dispossession and Our Neighbors' Memories of Lost Homes.
This week on One Land, Many Voices, we hear personal and family histories of the Nakba from Palestinians now living in Oregon. Joining Will and Wael are Chris Barghout, Mary Trolan, Frank Afranji and Abid Saadeh.
The Klamath Basin aquifer is about to show us what Cascadia will look like beyond water.There will be war and agribusiness has got the biggest guns.Fisherfolk and the rest of us, Take a number….Now, a federal study has concluded they have pumped more than the regional aquifer can sustain.
Pumping water for crops in the Klamath Project is relatively new. Irrigators dug wells throughout the Basin in 2001, when a severe drought left them without surface water.
Day 4 of the Reynolds teachers strike finds no talks scheduled between the union and the district. Despite the union agreement to the district's economic package, the school board has walked away from the table, for the second time since the strike began. Labor reporter Jamie Partridge talks wiith Frank Matthews, Reynolds Learning Academy teacher, Theresa Osborne, Reynolds High School teacher, and students Jose, Sandra, and Kirsten on the strike line at noon today.
There's the EPA, There's the 2008 FISA reloaded, There's the NDAA with bars on it...There's more out there than the Resistance even knows - or seems to want to know. There are only so many Fronts you can fight on, so why not fight on the Behind? Below the radar.
After Lo! these many years of the USA Patriot Act, Homeland Security, the War on Terror...isn't it time for a War on Fear?
