Evening News

 Last night the Restorative Listening Project held an open public forum on gentrification at the First AME Zion Church in north Portland.    The project attempts to address some of the effects of gentrification and development with open communication within neighborhoods.  Read more

 Malcolm Chaddock is a member with the Veterans for Peace chapter here in Portland. He went to Maryland last week to attend the Winter Soldier hearings that took place last weekend in Springwater, Maryland. KBOO’s Michael Ianello talked with him today about his experience... Read more

 KBOO Reporter Anna Soderberg was also at the peace rally Saturday, and asked participants about a world without war: Those were participants in Saturday's peace rally in Portland, describing how they see a world without war.  Read more

 This past weekend saw hundreds of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans descend upon Silver Springs, Maryland. They were there for public hearings organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War. Iraq Veterans Speak: Winter Soldier Hearings aired on KBOO last Friday and to provid... Read more

 Up next is Civil Liberties Watch. In this edition reporter Linda Olson –Osterlund brings us stuning new infromation about the National Security Agency’s domestic spying program.  Read more

 s tax time approaches, and the spending on the Iraq war continuing to grow, many people have expressed concern about paying taxes to continue to fund the war. But one group of Portlanders have been refusing to pay war taxes for a long time.  They are part of a national mo... Read more

 Many events have been planned both locally and nationally to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.One of these events is the release of a documentary called "War Made Easy", in which the filmmakers attempt to decipher "how we got into this mess." KB... Read more

 Yesterday evening the League of Women Voters held a public forum on Police Accountability in Portland.  Representatives from the Independent Police Review Board, the Citizens Review Committee, Portland Copwatch and the Northwest Constitutional Rights Center presented their... Read more

  At a pretrial hearing scheduled to be held next month at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,  a former Pentagon Prosecutor is poised to testify for the defense.  KBOO's Eddie Greenly has details   Read more

 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today urged nations such as Venezuela to meet their U-N obligations by keeping so-called terrorists out of their territories, and not letting their borders to be used to protect them. Rice’s comments come a day after President Bush said ... Read more