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Updated: May 1, 2011 added protest videos
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PeoplesVideo on Apr 30, 2011
Press Conference for May Day 2011 Union Square + Protest videos
Day: April 30, 2011
Portland’s Neighborhood Tool Sharing Libraries
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peakmoment on Apr 30, 2011
Peak Moment 194: Need a tool for a few days? Don’t have it? Neighbor doesn’t have it? Borrow it from your neighborhood tool library! No tool library? Check out Portland, where several neighborhoods have started successful tool libraries just in the last few years. Organizers Tom Thompson, Karen Tarnow and Stephen Couche discuss how they got started, stories of community generosity, and the enthusiastic response of all who stop by. In these neighborhoods, there’s no reason not to grab the tools you need and do that project! [www.neptl.org, http://www.septl.org]
Ralph Nader: Seniors: The Great Human Resource of Our Country
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PensionRightsCenter on Apr 26, 2011
Karen Ferguson introduces long-time consumer advocate Ralph Nader who presents the 2011 Helen Quirini Activist Award to Ewa Bielski, Paul Edwards, C. William Jones, and Janice Winston.
The Haymarket Riot: “It is a subterranean fire” by Elizabeth Schulte
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by Elizabeth Schulte
SocialistWorker.org
April 29, 2011
ON MAY 1, 1886–125 years ago this month–hundreds of thousands of workers were taking the streets of cities around the U.S. to demand an eight-hour day.
The epicenter of this great labor struggle was Chicago, where the eight-hour movement inspired defiant protests and strikes–and inspired fear and repression from bosses and their loyal servants in law enforcement.
Chris Hedges: Empires Die, but Kendra is Dancing With the Stars
with Chris Hedges
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April 29, 2011
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Ring of Fire Radio on Apr 29, 2011
Our democracy has been hijacked. Not just by greedy Republicans or by spineless democrats, but by the corporations who are pulling their strings from behind the scenes. And we have a mainstream media system in America that has remained complacent and almost welcoming to these corporate elite who control the country. But all hope is not lost — if we continue to fight, if we continue to expose the truth, then there is a good chance that we can make changes to this corrupt system, and Mike Papantonio recently spoke with author Chris Hedges about some of the problems facing our democratic system.
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