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Populist Dialogues - 13-11 Cooperative Governance

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Sun, 05/05/2013 - 3:54pm
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Guest Alex Linsker, an organizer with Tax & Conversation, asks "What happens when companies are democratically run?" Tax & Conversation is a cooperatively run tax reform effort which is striving to write an Oregon ballot initiative to reform Oregon's tax structure. Currently there are approximately 400 tax exceptions (loopholes). What would happen if individuals and corporations paid all their taxes without being able to exercise tax exceptions?

Populist Dialogues - 13-12 Campaign Finance Reform and Filibusters

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Sun, 05/05/2013 - 3:56pm
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Guest Dan Meek reviews the largely failed efforts of Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley to reform the US Senate filibuster rules. He also review how the filibuster rules have changed over the past 75 years. Then Dan talks about the failure of congress to make legal changes to overturn Citizens United or at least some of the effects. He notes that Oregon laws are "Citizens United on Steroids" and explains the reasons for that description and further notes that "Oregon is more loophole than law."

Populist Dialogues - 13-10 Ending Corporate Addiction

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Sun, 05/05/2013 - 3:51pm
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If one's best friend or a family member is addicted to drugs, what does one do? You intervene. That is the recourse Scott Silber, national director of National Intervention, suggests we must take to end the addictive behavior of corporate CEOs and other leaders as well as their political allies. Scott has written a book (soon to be released) titled, “True Recovery, Deep Democracy, The 12 Step Guide to Freedom From Addiction to Corporate Power and Money in Politics”

Populist Dialogues - 13-9 Gay Marriage - Neoliberal governance

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Sun, 05/05/2013 - 3:50pm
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Guest Jaye Cee Whitehead, Asst. Sociology Professor (Pacific University), discusses her views of gay marriage, looking at how the gay movement has come to embrace gay marriage as the signature issue for GLBTQ liberation. The 70s gay liberation movement rejected marriage but changed to embrace it in the 21st century. How and why did this change occur? That is what we discuss.

WIGO Shoot

Submitted by Jon Li on Wed, 03/20/2013 - 12:47pm
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Submitted by System Admin on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 1:31pm
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