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    Evening Headlines California Supreme Courts Hears Prop 8 Oregon Postal Worker Talks About Possible Shutdown Hands Across Bridge Event Raises Awareness This is volunteer powered and produced radio! Please click the link below to enjoy the newscast. Contri... Read more

U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe claims that the postal service is on the brink of Default. A mandated five and a half billion dollar payment to the U.S. Treasury will cause the Post Office to DEFAULT on that payment, unless Congress takes action by September 30th... Read more

  Hundreds of Oregon and Washington residents gathered yesterday on the Columbia River Crossing Bridge between Portland and Vancouver to kick off National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Month. The tenth annual Hands Across the Bridge event included ceremonies and native drum... Read more

Normal 0 Several labor and social justice groups held a rally in North East Portland Yesterday to bring attention to continued unemployment.  Oregon Action, Jobs with Justice, SEIU and US Uncut were among the sponsors of a “Jobs not Cuts” rally at Carousel Park. This r... Read more

Normal 0 President Obama asked the Environmental Protection Agency to cease consideration of new laws for smog standards.   In a statement, Obama announced that he had asked the EPA’s administrator Lisa Jackson to withdraw the draft of the Ozone National Ambient Air Q... Read more

Normal 0 Two Oregon nonprofit groups have combined their efforts to launch a campaign intended to bridge the gap between Oregon’s Latino and Queer communities.  The campaign, titled “Our Families,” hopes to spark conversations in Oregon’s Latino community regarding iss... Read more

Headlines for tonight's newscast Normal 0 A police officer in Elgin, Oregon involved last month’s shooting death is cleared of any wrongdoing.  Citing economic concerns, President Obama stops the EPA from introducing new smog standards.  Newly... Read more

    Evening Headlines Cargill Human Rights Violations U.S. CEO's and Tax Dodging Protest Against Tar Sands This is volunteer powered and produced radio! Please click below to enjoy the newscast. Contributors: Joe Lino, Zoe Carpenter, Frances Fagen, and Angel... Read more

  The Rainforest Action Network has recently discovered human rights violations in the Indonesian island of Sumatra that can be linked to the agricultural giant Cargill. Cargill and its affiliates are in the area to extract palm oil, of which the U.S. has increased its l... Read more

  Over eight hundred activists have been arrested outside the White House opposing the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline is planned to go between Alberta Canada and the U-S Gulf Coast to transport tar sands to convert into oil. At least six activists were from Portland.... Read more