Civil Rights/Human Rights

Palestine to Tacoma Hunger Strike Solidarity

Airs at: Thu, 05/11/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm

Produced for: Evening News

Fifteen hundred Palestinians have entered their fourth week of hunger strike. They are demanding better conditions in Israeli prisons, including family visits and an end to the practice of holding prisoners indefinitely without charges. In a statement of solidarity, a grou... Read more

Vigil for Keaton Otis on Friday

Airs at: Thu, 05/11/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm

Produced for: Evening News

Friday, May 12th marks the seventh year since Keaton Otis was shot and killed by Portland Police. The 25-year-old was shot 23 times during a traffic stop on the corner of Northeast Sixth Avenue and Halsey Street near Lloyd Center. Back in 2010, a grand jury found no crimin... Read more

Radio Free Palestine: 69 Years of Nakba

Airs at: Mon, 05/15/2017 at 10:00am - 10:00pm

Produced for: Radio Free Palestine

Here are the archives from the special day of programming: --7am The Armenian Genocide (107 years), the ethnic cleansing of northern Syria, the Balfour Declaration and Sykes-Picot (100 years), the creation of Saudi Apartheid (85 years), the Nakbah and creation of Israeli Ap... Read more

Radio Free Palestine

On Wednesday May 15th, 2024, on the 76th anniversary of the ongoing Palestinian Nakba and resistance to Israeli Apartheid, Radio Free Palestine has launched on May 14th at 9PM PST, on stations across North America, 24 hours of programming from radio stations and producer... Read more

Greg Palast LIVE ON KBOO

Airs at: Thu, 05/11/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

To kick-off KBOO's Spring Membership Drive, Jo Ann Hardesty welcomes author, reporter and filmmaker Greg Palast. He told us how the election would be stolen....and then it was. Greg Palast is an investigative reporter, whose news-breaking stories appear on BBC Televi... Read more

Trump's religious freedom order and the Queer Doc Festival

Airs at: Tue, 05/09/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Preference

We'll be sitting down with ACLU of Oregon staff attorney Kelly Simon to talk about Prexy Trump's 'religious freedom' order, issued last week. Is it as bad as expected? More nuanced? How might it play out? We're going to explore these questions, and more, with Kelly. ... Read more

What It Takes to Win: Kshama Sawant

Airs at: Tue, 05/09/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Kshama Sawant is a member of the Socialist Alternative. She was elected to the Seattle City Council in 2013. She is the first socialist to win a citywide election in Seattle since 1916. She was reelected in 2015. In times of despair and distress there may be the temptati... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for May 8, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 05/08/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge hosts and we hear about -- How the US has provoked North Korea; How policing protects class oppression; What's really wrong with inequality; The racial casting of "The Handmaid's Tale"; activist events this week. Listen to and share individua... Read more

Youth Advocacy in Pakistan

Airs at: Sun, 05/07/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am

Produced for: Century Of Lies

This week on Century Of Lies, we hear from Wiqas Ahmad, a drug policy reform activist and youth advocate based in Pakistan. Plus, skeletons in Congressman Tom Marino's closet have popped the White House's trial balloon about Marino becoming the next Drug Czar, and a leaked ... Read more

Women Activists Call on Trump to Initiate Regional Peace Talks with North Korea

Airs at: Mon, 05/08/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

"The United States, as I understand it, has made a precondition for talks with North Korea, that they must get rid of their nuclear weapons stockpile before talks can begin. For North Korea, as they view it, that's a nonstarter." – Christine Ahn, founder and internation... Read more