Civil Liberties

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Trauma Informed Equity Work: Healing through Reconnection

Airs at: Thu, 04/13/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  from Training for Transformation: "The polarization of law enforcement and community members deepens as our nation continues  to erupt into national protests and states of emergency in Ferguson, Baltimore, New York, Cleveland, South Carolina, Florida and Chicago after a... Read more

Raising The Age

Airs at: Mon, 04/17/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Over the last decade, half the states where 16-or-17-year-olds (or both) were under adult court jurisdiction “raised the age” so that justice system involved young people are served by the juvenile justice system, cutting the number of youth in the adult system by about hal... Read more

William Pepper on the Assassination of MLK

Airs at: Wed, 04/12/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  With the 49th anniversary of the MLK assassination recently past, Mickey Huff and guest co-host Kenn Burrows welcome attorney and author William Pepper to the program. Pepper discusses his latest book, "The Plot to Kill King," much of it based on evidence unavailable at ... Read more

Transpositive PDX

Airs at: Tue, 04/11/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Transpositive PDX
Tuesday, April 11 6pm 90.7FM KBOO Community Radio online at kboo.fm or transpositive.wordpress.com. This week on Transpositive co-host Jean Bryant and the collective will continue our Trans Family and Friends series with a look at the experiences of the parents of a 19 year... Read more

The Fight for Free Speech on Campus: Geoffrey Stone

Airs at: Tue, 04/11/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The political landscape is increasingly intolerant of opposing views. Campuses are sometimes a battleground. Author Charles Murray was shouted down and prevented from speaking at Middlebury. Condoleezza Rice declined to speak at Rutgers because of protests. Ex-Breitbart ... Read more

Court Case Tackles Infiltration of Activists in WA

Airs at: Thu, 04/06/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
In the case of Panagacos v Towery, US Army Force Protection Division employees at Fort Lewis in Washington State have appealed a state order. The order denies motions to dismiss 1st and 4th Amendment claims brought against them by Olympia-area activists. The activists say ... Read more

Non-Violent Protest Under Attack

Airs at: Mon, 04/10/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcome Alycee Lane from The Article 20 Network to KBOO.   Alycee is an Oakland, California-based writer and author of Coming in From the Cold, a blog exploring political issues through the prism of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence. ... Read more

The Plot to Kill King

Airs at: Thu, 04/06/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested on June 8, 1968, in London at Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States, and charged with the crime. On March 10, 1969, Ray entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the... Read more

Gandhian Nonviolence Today

Airs at: Tue, 04/04/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  As protests and demonstrations continue around the world, once again the relevance of the strategies and tactics of civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance arise. What are we to do when faced with injustice? Look away? Or resist? Are sit-ins, blockades and boycotts ... Read more

And the winner is . . .

"Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday! After all Sixty-Four songs (culled from nearly 300) duked it out tournament style over the past few weeks, last night we crowned her signature song which so bravely illuminated the horrors of lynchings, our SAD, SAD Champion, the Ultimate... Read more