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This week's show has some really great funk instrumentals starting with Ramsey Lewis covering "Living For the City". Stevie Wonder follows with the original, Herbie Hancock "Gentle Thoughts". Bobbi Humphrey "Jasper Country Man" off of Blacks and Blues. Gene Harris "HIgga Boom!", Ripple with "Funky Song", Al Green "Stay Together with Little Beaver following up. And some Steve Miller "Fly like and Eagle". Thanks for tuning in and supporting KCR. Peace.

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TAXES, WE DON’T PAY NO STINKIN' TAXES SAYS VERIZON, AS THE 99% CRIES FOUL! With The Tax Dodgers, OWS Occupy the Boardroom, United NY, Make the Road NY, Strong Economy for All, NY Communities for Change, Vocal New York, C.W.A., 99% NY, and other members of the 99% Verizon Communications has been identified as one of the country’s worst tax dodgers. Between 2008 - 2010, Verizon actually received $951 million net in federal tax refunds, our public dollars, making their effective federal tax rate average to 3% or less. So, an outraged coalition decided to “occupy” Verizon headquarters to call attention to the fact that corporations like Verizon, GE, Bank of America, and others are not paying their fair share of taxes, juxtaposed with a time when the minimum wage is too low to permit people to pay their bills and feed their families. The occupiers came to say corporate ‘tax dodgers’ like Verizon, that made over $25 billion in pre-tax US income, and paid $173 million in compensation to their top five executives, with $56 million going to their CEO alone – and spending $52 million for lobbying was obscene while at the same time, since 2008 laying off 20,000 employees. Meanwhile, in the midst of the occupation, a new sports franchise, the “Tax Dodgers” had the audacity to show up. One of the players, claiming to be former Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg introduced the “Tax Dodgers,” who he explained symbolized the lobbyists and other groups who likely received a portion of the money that Verizon saved in taxes, while the occupiers cried foul. Tune in to hear the response of the 99%ers to Verizon and to the Tax Dodgers, who demonstrated their agility at stealing bases!

TAXES, WE DON’T PAY NO STINKIN' TAXES SAYS VERIZON, AS THE 99% CRIES FOUL! With The Tax Dodgers, OWS Occupy the Boardroom, United NY, Make the Road NY, Strong Economy for All, NY Communities for Change, Vocal New York, C.W.A., 99% NY, and other members of the 99% Verizon Communications has been identified as one of the country’s worst tax dodgers. Between 2008 - 2010, Verizon actually received $951 million net in federal tax refunds, our public dollars, making their effective federal tax rate average to 3% or less. So, an outraged coalition decided to “occupy” Verizon headquarters to call attention to the fact that corporations like Verizon, GE, Bank of America, and others are not paying their fair share of taxes, juxtaposed with a time when the minimum wage is too low to permit people to pay their bills and feed their families. The occupiers came to say corporate ‘tax dodgers’ like Verizon, that made over $25 billion in pre-tax US income, and paid $173 million in compensation to their top five executives, with $56 million going to their CEO alone – and spending $52 million for lobbying was obscene while at the same time, since 2008 laying off 20,000 employees. Meanwhile, in the midst of the occupation, a new sports franchise, the “Tax Dodgers” had the audacity to show up. One of the players, claiming to be former Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg introduced the “Tax Dodgers,” who he explained symbolized the lobbyists and other groups who likely received a portion of the money that Verizon saved in taxes, while the occupiers cried foul. Tune in to hear the response of the 99%ers to Verizon and to the Tax Dodgers, who demonstrated their agility at stealing bases!

GM assembly workers in Colombia suffer occupational disabilities resulting from outdated equipment and production methods, then the company forces them out of their jobs. The workers and their families fight back by occupying a spot right across the street from the US embassy. In November they spoke with a Witness for Peace delegation about their struggle for justice.

Tonight's show features the current struggles of workers in two ports. First we speak with Dan Coffman, President of ILWU Local 21, about the Longview workers' courageous fight against the transnational corporation EGT, and how their community has mobilized and braved police brutality to stand up for good local jobs. Then we hear John Walsh's interview with longshore workers of Unión Portuaria in Buenaventura, Colombia, talking about the conditions in which they live and work, and their own workplace struggles.

The Unión Portuaria, the Colombian union of port workers, takes members of a Witness for Peace delegation on a tour of the modern Pacific coast port of Buenaventura, and then of the impoverished barrio in which the workers live.

Two progressive advocacy groups, OSPIRG, the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group, and Environment Oregon, are experiencing labor strife. Today, outside the call center for the Fund for the Public Interest, at the Portland Telephone Outreach Project, where telephone workers fundraise for these two groups, union activists staged an informational picket. KBOO labor reporter Jamie Partridge has the story.

The Interntional Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) local 21 in Longview, Washington has put out the call to all working class people to come to Longview for an historic protest. EGT, a giant multi-natiional corporation which controls one-third of the world's grain trade, is trying to bust the ILWU, one of America's most progressive and powerful unions. EGT's first grain ship will be docking soon, escorted by the U.S. Coast Guard. Host Jamie Partridge interviews Meredith Reese from the Labor Solidarity Committee of OCCUPY Portland about organizing for this pivotal battle of the 99% vs the 1%.

Longshore workers in Longview, Washington are fighting an historic battle to save their union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) local 21. EGT, a huge multinational grain trading corporation, is trying to load the first ship at their new high tech terminal with non-ILWU scab labor. Host Jamie Partridge interviews OCCUPY Portland spokesperson, Kari Koch, about the massive caravan now being organized in response to the call from local 21 for solidarity.

A two-hour dance party to get my local listeners warmed up for WRIR's 7th anniversary party: Balkan, Brazilian, reggae and Latin sounds

Participants in the Movement of Victims of Crimes of the State describe extrajudicial executions, also known as "false positives," in which the US-funded Colombian armed forces murdered civilians - often young men looking for work - in order to present their bodies as evidence of military success in the internal armed conflict. One of the speakers lost her brother, another her son, to such killings.

Kris Humbird and his coworkers at the Fund for the Public Interest call center -- which raises funds for OSPIRG and Environment Oregon -- formed a union with CWA Local 7901 this past October. Kris joined us in studio to talk about the job he loves, the trouble with fundraising quotas, and the ugly union-busting side of these beloved progressive organizations. If Kris and his coworkers are taking one step towards a voice in their workplace, John Langley and his coworkers at the Red and Black Cafe have taken it a step farther: They own and run the restaurant themselves, as a worker-owned cooperative. John joined us by phone to talk about life without a boss.