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Bill Fletcher is a long-time racial justice, labor, and international activist, scholar, and author.  He has served in leadership positions with many prominent union and labor organizations, including the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union.  Fletcher is the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum and is the coauthor, with Fernando Gapasin (heard here introducing Bill Fletcher), of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice.  Fletcher was in Northeast Portland, speaking at an event sponsored by the International Socialist Organization on May 18th, 2013 as part of a tour promoting his new book: "They're Bankrupting Us" and Twenty Other Myths about Unions.

Portland citizens voted in the Arts Tax last November, but since then the proposed tax has met with numerous issues, and still has not gone into affect.

Forty years of making music hasn’t made The Manhattan Transfer any less daring. 　Their latest project, "The Living Room Sessions" expose the quartet and how they make their music even more. Don Merrill has the chance to talk with founding member Alan Paul about the group, the return of group member Sharon Bentyne after her bout with cancer and his feelings about the failings of some of today’s music making.

Speech by Gloria Martin, one of the founders of Radical Women given at the 1983 Seattle International Women's Day's Forum on "Racism in the Women's Movement".

Recorded on Reel tape in 1983

Produced by LC Earnest

In this long-lost episode of the original 1960's TV series Star Trek, the crew of the USS Enterprise must stop a bad robot named Jay Jabrams from making any more movies based on their lives. On their way to track down this bad robot, they encounter a couple of Orion twin sisters who find it is quite easy being green.

Cast: Jason, Kristin, Nicholas, Kirsten, Drew & Noah

Writer: Noah Madrano

This is the first half of April's episode. Includes the intro, letters, Random Moments and this month's installment of Memoirs From the Psych Ward.

Cast: Jason, Kristin, Kirsten & Noah

Writer: Liden-Madrano

Director: Noah Madrano