Portland City Council voted five-oh today to add fluoridating chemicals to our pristine Bull Run Water.

Council chambers were unusually rowdy during the session with shouts of ‘public water public vote’, in reference to the percieved lack of public process.

Several citizens were evicted from our council chambers.

KBOO’s Joe Meyer spoke with PhD Chemist and anti-fluoride activist Dr Paul Connett after the vote.

     Portland city council paid out forty thousand dollars earlier this week to settle a class action lawsuit that claimed the camping ban was unconstitutional.

Also this week, Vigil to end Homelessness instigator Kernel Moses was exonerated of ‘interfering with a police officer’ and won the right for folks on the street to upgrade from cardboard to wooden pallets.

KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg and Joe Meyer filed the report

In San Francisco, new ads on several MUNI buses, funded by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, read: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.  Support Israel, defeat Jihad."

The city has heard a public outcry to the ads, with citizens and advocacy groups deeming the ads inflammatory, Islamophobic, and racist.

KBOO's Jenn Chavez spoke with Zahra Billoo, the executive director of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, for more on this story.

An Israeli court is expected to issue a verdict in the case of the late Rachel Corrie next week.

Corrie was killed by a U-S-made Israeli armored bulldozer in 2003 when she stood in front of the bulldozer to protest the demolition of a Palestinian doctor’s home.

Her parents, Cindy and Craig Corrie, are on their way to Israel for the final court hearing in the lawsuit they filed against the Israeli government four years ago.

They spoke with KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg about the latest developments in the case

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