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Program:
Special Programming: Public Affairs
Air date:
Fri, 02/10/2012 - 8:00am - 6:00pm
Short Description:
Challenging corporate power Challenging Corporate Power: an all-day special on KBOO Community Radio
Friday February 10th from 8 am to 6 pm
As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to the next stage of
building alternative economic structures, pushing for a constitutional
amendment to end corporate personhood, and engaging in challenges to
corporate power from the local to the international level, KBOO Radio
has decided to devote a full day of programming to bring attention to
this growing movement.
In our all-day special on Challenging Corporate Power, we will
bring you the voices of the Occupy Wall Street movement from Portland to
New York to Washington DC, with updates from around the country on
organizing efforts and successes.
At 8, we’ll have a call-in show with members of Occupy Portland who are planning a day of action on February 29th to Occupy the Corporations
Then we’ll look at a history of Corporate Personhood in the US,
from Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad in 1886, which gave
corporations the right of personhood under the 14th
Amendment, to ‘Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,’ which
allows unlimited corporate contributions to political campaigns. We’ll
also hear about the current status of the Oklahoma challenge to that
decision, in which the state supreme court overruled the 'Citizens
United' decision that may now go to the Supreme Court.
At 11, KBOO’s Joe Meyer and Ross Freeman-Levin interview Jeffrey Clements, the author of Corporations Are Not People , which just made the Bill Moyers top ten “Must-Read Money-In-Politics Books” list – he’ll be in Portland on Saturday Feb. 11th for a talk and book signing.
At noon, Carlos Chavez takes a look at the role of immigrant labor
in the US economy – and the contributions these workers make to the
social security system while receiving nothing in return.
--Did
you realize that undocumented workers contribute significantly to
Oregon's economy? Not only do Oregonians benefit from the hard work and
goods purchased by undocumented immigrants on a regular basis, but
undocumented workers pay taxes too.Join Carlos Chavez on KBOO Community Radio's "Challenging Corporate
Power" special this Friday, February 10th at noon. His guest will be
Juan Carlos Ordonez of the Oregon Center for Public Policy. They'll
discuss their recent report titled, Undocumented Workers Are Taxpayers, Too.
More info at Oregon Center for Public Policy
Throughout the afternoon, we will examine the ways in which
corporate power dominates our political and economic process, and what
people are doing to fight this power.
12:30 pm - Linda Olson-Osterlund speaks with Ben Gotschall on resistance to the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline
1:00 pm – the worldwide takeover of the global food market by companies like Monsanto (and how people are fighting it!)
2:00 pm – Heidi Garrett-Peltier talks to KBOO host Bill Resnick on the military industry that profits off of war
2:30 pm - a vision for transforming society from a culture of
consumerism and debt to one that values community, care and mutual aid.
3:00 pm – What is ALEC and why you should stand up against it!
5:00 - reports and updates from the Occupy Wall Street bus tour and national organizing efforts
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