Civil Rights/Human Rights

Fighters From the Eagle Creek Fire Plans to Assist in North Bay Fires

Airs at: Wed, 10/11/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:45pm

Produced for: Evening News

Just a few days after putting away equipment used in fighting the Eagle Creek Fire, Multnomah County has decided to back out and is sending help that consists of a strike team of 5 fire engine and their crews to Northern California to assist in the North Bay Fires. The team... Read more

Colombian Indigenous Broadcaster and Activist Killed, US-Made Munitions Involved

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm

Produced for: Evening News

US-made riot-control munitions were used by authorities in Colombia at a clash that resulted in the death of indigenous broadcaster Efigenia Vasquez Astudillo. She was reporting on clashes between the state’s Mobile Anti-Riot Squadron, or Esmad, and the Kokonuko people in C... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for October 9, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear these segments: 1. Margot Black and Bill Resnick on Portland Tenants United and the housing crisis. 2. Tod Sloan talks in Nicaragua with Brian Willson, Portland peace activist. 3. Denise Morris reviews th... Read more

Housing: Investment or Human Right

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Margot Black of Portland Tenants United and the Old Mole's Bill Resnick discuss how treating housing as an instrument for making money leads to evictions, skyrocketing rents, and houselessness. Read more

New Queer & Trans writing: talking with Tobi Hill-Meyer and Gabby Rivera

Airs at: Tue, 10/10/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Preference

We'll spend time with educator, activist, and writer Tobi Hill-Meyer. She's a founder of the Gender Justicve League, a transgender civil & human rights organization in Washington, as well as an author of two children's books... and her work includes sex worker rights, AIDS ... Read more

Human Rights and the Philippines

Airs at: Sun, 10/08/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am

Produced for: Century Of Lies

The UN Human Rights Council recently conducted its Universal Periodic Review of human rights in the Philippines, so this week we hear from several nongovernmental organizations concerned with human rights and the drug war. Read more

November 4th....It Begins!

Airs at: Wed, 10/11/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

CALL (503) 231-8187 to add your voice to the conversation! Linda Olson-Osterlund welcomes Carl Dix...one of the founding members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. In 1996, Dix co-founded the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Cr... Read more

Fannie Lou Hamer

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, spoke words that are all too relevant today. Mrs Hamer would have turned 100 years old on October 6th 2017. Today on Making Contact, youll hear archival recordings, and excerpts from a powerful new film featuring Fannie Lou Hamers co... Read more

Why Do Red States Have More Success with Public Defense Reform Than Blue States?

Airs at: Thu, 10/05/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm

Produced for: Evening News

A recent investigation by The Marshall Project and Politico has cast light on a counter-intuitive trend among small-government conservative state lawmakers. Many deep-red states have been successful at reforming their public defender systems. We should probably say, “modera... Read more

The Stop Shopping Choir ... Amen

Airs at: Fri, 10/06/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Positively Revolting

The Environmental Movement needs humor and music, and activists ready to risk arrest. Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir brings all of that. This band of Earth-Lovers sang at Standing Rock in North Dakota, in Ferguson, during the early days of black lives matter, ... Read more