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Spanish Immersion School Program's funds are being cut in Portland! Hear from mother and community organizer Savannah Paz about the actions parents are taking to save their children's education on Bread and Roses Friday May 25th at 6pm.

Back in February the city of Philadelphia's school system announced the closing of 40 public school to be replaced by privately owned charter schools. This announcement received very little to no coverage by the local or national media. It appears that this pattern is not new and is repeating itself all over the nation. Here in Portland, Atkinson elementary school and its students and families are protesting Portland Public School's budget cuts. You can hear all about it on your community radio station KBOO!

MILES DAVIS BIRTHDAY MARATHON Once again it's that time of year to celebrate Miles' birthday. Nothing set in stone yet, we don't even know how long it wll go on. So keep checking back for updates. We do know that it will be happening, and we'll be play some rare recordings. So, set your recorder and tune in.

Talk Radio is off today. Instead for Memorial Day we hear a talk by Chris Hedges on War as an Addiction. This powerful talk was recorded in Portland in 2003.

WHY THE O&C TRUST ACT CAN'T SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES?

For the past year Oregon news has been filled with stories of timber-dependent counties on the brink of bankruptcy. Since 1937 these 18 western Oregon counties have enjoyed fiscal benefits from federal timber recepits, primarily from cutting old growth forests on western BLM lands—the so-called "O&C" lands granted to the Oregon and California Railroad in 1866 and taken back by the government in 1916 for violating terms of the land grant. The unsustainable clearcutting of old-growth forests, and the receipts they generated, plummeted in the early 1990s when the threat to salmon, wildlife, clean water and watersheds could no longer be ignored.

You may have seen a monkey riding a unicycle, but have you ever seen a lion riding a bicycle?

Mark Mansell, superintendent of the La Center Public Schools is a member of Lions International. He plans to ride his bicycle from Portland OR to Portland ME in an effort to raise money for Leader Dogs for the Blind.

Follow him at www.cyclingforleaderdogs.org

The killing of four students on the campus of Kent State, Ohio, on May 4, 1970, during a demonstration against Nixon's expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia received new attention on April 23, 2012. The Obama administration's Justice Department decided not to re-open the case in spite of evidence that the guardsmen had been ordered to shoot. This reminded the public that the question of who ordered the shooting has never been resolved.

Instead of your regular scheduled PM Newscast, we bring you WBAI produced "Occupy Wall Street Radio." 

The initial Occupy Wall Street Radio aired on October 26, 2011. The show can be heard Monday through Friday from 6:30 to 7 PM on WBAI.   Here is an archive of past shows.  Hear the voices, the heart, the soul of this 99% growing and now global movement.

600 school teachers, represented by the Reynolds Education Association (REA) have been on strike for five days. Despite the union’s agreement to the district’s economic demands, the school board has continued to insist on severe attacks on teachers’ working conditions. Co-host Jamie Partridge talks with some of the hundreds of teachers who have been out on the picketline every day.

In the second half of the show, co-host John Walsh recorded a Colombian GM worker, Jorge Parra, speaking with UAW staff at Solidarity House in Detroit about the fightback against dangerous working conditions and a cruel company.

A special episode of Plugged In on KBOO with guest DJs Trevor Vichas and Art Of Hot! Don't miss this one!

10pm - 12am on Friday, June 1st on 90.7 FM in Portland, OR and streaming online via http://kboo.fm/

2 hours of fresh House music in the mix!

More on Trevor Vichas @ http://www.facebook.com/djtrevorvichas

More on Art Of Hot @ http://www.facebook.com/pages/ART-OF-HOT/75104312613

Gretchen Reynolds, the author of the New York Times column "Phys Ed," has been writing about the science of health and fitness for a more than a decade.  Host David Naimon talks with Reynolds about her new book "The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer."

Learn why Reynolds, after writing this book, started to exercise less, the difference between being fit and being skinny, the downsides of stretching and sit-ups, and the health benefits of standing.