Civil Liberties

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Two Court Cases Help Define Portland's Camping Ban

Airs at: Fri, 08/24/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0      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... Read more

Bill Smaldone: History of Social Democratic Party - Part 1

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick and Bill Smaldone start a two-part conversion about the German Social Democratic party in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Smaldone lays out the historical context of the consolidating and industrializing German state, then explains how the Social Democrats emer... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour August 20th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 On Today's Old Mole, Frann Michel hosts, and we hear about how German social democrats built a parallel society for working people, a movie review of a Bob Marley biopic, and from a worker at the Red and Black cafe about their cooperatively owned and collectively manage... Read more

Chris Toensing on the Arab Spring Part 2

Airs at: Mon, 08/13/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick concludes his interview with Chris Toensing about the Arab Spring and its implications for the West. You can find Part One here. In this audio, they briefly review their earlier conversation, and they discuss the destabilizing effects of competition for oil re... Read more

New Ads on San Francisco MUNI Buses Criticized as Islamophobic

Airs at: Thu, 08/16/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 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 th... Read more

Oregon Bar Bans Transgender Customers

Airs at: Wed, 08/15/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 The Oregon Board of Labor is currently investigating a North Portland bar after the owner asked two trans women to stop coming. According to Cassandra Lynn, she and her friends have been visiting the bar on Friday nights for two years. Lynn received a vo... Read more

Interviews with Gender/Trans Resources and Local Fun House

Airs at: Tue, 08/14/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Out Loud
On tonights show Out Loud's newest member and host Natalie Marie so-hosting with Kyle in his farewell segment spoke with Trenton, the owner and operator of the local perfomance space and bar the Funhouse Lounge! Trenton talked about a number of the fun activities going o... Read more

Oregon's Spy Center: The Urban Area Fusion Center

Airs at: Thu, 08/09/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  A Deeper Look
Fusion Centers,  Have you heard of them? No-o-o not a new type of food cart or a place to blend teas. But Oregon does have 2 of them. They are Secret Surveillance Centers started by the Department of Homeland Security, "Fusing" intelligence gathered by local state and fe... Read more

The KBOO Evening News

Airs at: Wed, 08/08/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Non-corporate, volunteer-powered, local, national, and international news: This is the KBOO Evening News. Click on the link below and enjoy! Read more

Well-read Red: Do They Owe Us A Living? 'Course they do, 'course they do!

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads Peter Frase's case against the assumption of wage-labor in both capitalism and market-socialist visions of a fucture economy. Frase argues for a universal basic income, explaining why it would more directly address the problems with wage-labor, make it ... Read more