Civil Rights/Human Rights

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Retired...or ReWired? Episode 10: Intergenerational Issues

Airs at: Wed, 07/11/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Retired...or ReWired?
10.  Intergenerational Issues: Getting involved:  organizations and options. Since 1997 Donna Butts has been Executive Director of Generations United, She began her career in Oregon as a youth worker with the Salem YWCA. She’s held leadership positions with Covenant Hous... Read more

Retired?...or ReWired? Episode 7: Financial Issues

Airs at: Fri, 07/06/2018 at 12:30pm - 1:00pm
Produced for:  Retired...or ReWired?
7.  Financial Issues: How to plan for a low-income life-style. You may be seeing lots of ads on prime-time TV these days about the benefits of “reverse mortgages.”  In this episode KBOO interviews Rachel Mohlere,  a leading specialist who feels that this type of arrangem... Read more

Retired?...or ReWired? Episode 4: The Hollywood Center

Airs at: Thu, 07/05/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Retired...or ReWired?
We meet with Amber Kerns Johnson, Driector of the Hollywood Center, and learn about programs.  Or tour includes a discussion with the teachers of the ukelele and writing classes and a visit to the gift shop.  Read more

Breaking ICE: Abolishing the Detention Industrial Complex

Airs at: Mon, 07/16/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Breaking ICE: Abolishing the Detention Industrial Complex   Adam Carpinelli interviews Antonio Zamora a local Portland, Oregon community organizer.  Zamora was one of the founders of the recent #occupyice encampment in Portland which has since been replicated in other ma... Read more

Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a program that was first developed in King County/Seattle, WA. According to the LEAD National Bureau: In a LEAD® program, police officers exercise discretionary authority at point of contact to divert individuals to a community... Read more

The Portland Parents Union

Airs at: Fri, 07/13/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
  The Portland Parents Union is our region's activism center against school push out for vulnerable students and also a hub of mediation on restorative justice. Their founder is Sheila Washington Warren.  Lisa Loving, filling in for Ani Haines, guest hosts this Friday f... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for July 9,2018

Airs at: Mon, 07/09/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Hosted by Denise Morris, this edition of the Old Mole features: 1. Bill Resnick talking with Chicago DSA activist Joanna Misnick about Democratic Socialists and elections; 2. Frann Michele commenting on a Supreme Court decision undermining access to reproductive services... Read more

Retired?...or ReWired? Episode 2: Retirement in Portland

Airs at: Tue, 07/03/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Retired...or ReWired?
In this episode we interview Dr. Keren Brown Wilson, “grandmother of assisted living” in Oregon, and President, JFR Foundation.   Keren has over 30 years’ experience in long-term care and supportive housing. She was the principal architect of the Oregon model of assisted... Read more

The Hollywood Murders: A Day in May

This is a series on the hate crime that took place at the Hollywood metro station on May 26, 2017.   Read more

Supreme Court and Reproductive Rights

Airs at: Mon, 07/09/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel discusses the recent Supreme Court decision in NIFLA v Becerra, which ruled that crisis pregnancy centers can continue lying to people seeking reproductive health care. She comments on the decision’s relation to the patriarchal religious right, racism, and c... Read more