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OHSU Animal rights protest

Airs at: Mon, 06/28/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Evening News
Around fifty people protested outside of an OHSU facility in Hillsboro today, drawing attention the center’s use of primates in drug research. The center has been criticized for several citations it received for violating the animal welfare act. Read more

Portland Blues Festival is this weekend

Airs at: Mon, 06/28/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Evening News
Normal 0 Normal 0 The Oregon Food Bank network is hosting its twenty-third annual Waterfront Blues Festival here in Portland. This year’s goal is to receive at least six hundred thousand dollars in cash and canned goods to meet the record demands for emerge... Read more

UN Include Disabilities in Development Agenda

Airs at: Mon, 06/28/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Evening News
Normal 0  This week’s high-level ministerial meeting at the United Nations will discuss development assistance for the rights and needs of women with disabilities. KBOO Radio’s Sarika Mehta spoke with Shantha Rau Barriga from Human Rights Watch. Read more

OHSU Animal Rights Protest

Airs at: Mon, 06/28/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Evening News
Normal 0 Around fifty people protested outside of an O-H-S-U facility in Hillsboro today, drawing attention the center’s use of primates in drug research. The center has been criticized for several citations it received for violating the animal welfare act.    KBOO’s Ev... Read more

Supreme Court orders petition-signers names must be public

Airs at: Fri, 06/25/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Evening News
In a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that people who sign political petitions in an attempt to change public laws do not have a preemptive right to keep their identity secret.   KBOO spoke with David Ammon, communications director for the Washington S... Read more

Northwest Service Academy

Airs at: Thu, 06/24/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Evening News
Normal 0 The Northwest Service Academy has just been informed that they had their funding cut for the first time after sixteen years of funding. Without funding from AmeriCorps, NWSA will not be able to provide support to critical environmental work in western Oreg... Read more

Northwest Service Academy's Funding Cut

Airs at: Thu, 06/24/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Evening News
The Northwest Service Academy has just been informed that they had their funding cut for the first time after sixteen years of funding. Without funding from AmeriCorps, N-W-S-A will not be ablet o provide support to critical environmental work in western Oregon and Southwes... Read more

Portland Police say they do not racially profile

Airs at: Wed, 06/23/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Evening News
Portland Mayor Sam Adams and members of the Portland Police Gang Enforcement Team held a press conference yesterday on recent shootings in the area that they say are gang-related. Four people have been shot in the last week, two of them killed, in what police claim is gang-... Read more

Africa Bridge assists vulnerable children in Tanzania

Airs at: Wed, 06/23/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Evening News
Africa Bridge is a rural economic development organization with an emphasis on assisting vulnerable children and their families in Tanzania by bridging the gap between African culture and western culture. KBOO’s James Dixon brings us the story… Read more

KBOO Reports from US Social Forum in Detroit

Airs at: Tue, 06/22/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Evening News
The United States Social Forum kicked off today in Detroit, Michigan. The theme of the forum is "Another world is possible, another US is necessary, and another Detroit is underway."  Tens of thousands of participants arrived from all over the world to take part in the large... Read more