Housing/Homelessness

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SE Portland Tenants Try to Organize Apartment Building

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Tenants at the Clifford Apartments in Southeast Portland are trying to organize. They say the management company, Income Property Management, has unfairly retaliated against tenants who have made complaints regarding health and safety. KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg has this repo... Read more

Renters' Rights Comics

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this encore episode from March 2015, we learn about renters' rights with the help of cartoonist Becky Hawkins and the late Justin Buri, onetime Executive Director of Portland's Community Alliance of Tenants. When local educational group Know Your City needed a medium ... Read more

LEADing the Way

Airs at: Mon, 03/06/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On Monday, Feb. 27, a coalition of Multnomah County and Portland officials and social service agencies announced that local law enforcement would begin a Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program (LEAD). LEAD was first developed in King County, Seattle, WA in 2011. LEAD is... Read more

ICE, & renters in danger of losing their homes - the impacts on Latino families

Airs at: Fri, 02/24/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Stories of ICE raids have riddled news outlets in earnest since President Trump was inaugurated. It has put many cities at odds with federal executive orders and caused national speculation over immigration rights and where they intersect with the Tenth Amendment. These hav... Read more

Village Coalition on Right 2 Survive Radio

Airs at: Wed, 02/08/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Right To Survive
All the tent cities in Portland are coming together to form a coalition - instead of ad hoc camps, the idea is to have organized encampments with codes of conduct. This will be the "Village Coalition'. Tune in to find out more. We will be taking your calls on this live broa... Read more

Rent Freeze & Relocation Assistance: Margot Black on More Talk Radio

Airs at: Mon, 02/06/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  "There are only two kinds of Portland landlords: those who want to be part of the solution to our housing crisis, and those who want to continue to take advantage of it via rent gouging and no-cause evictions that only serve to displace our community while increasing the... Read more

#cut50: The Fight to Slash the Prison Population in Half

Airs at: Thu, 02/02/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Jessica Jackson Sloan is the national director and co-founder of #cut50, a bipartisan effort to cut the U.S. prison population in half. Jessica is a human rights attorney who began her career representing California death row inmates in their appeals. Her first marriage ... Read more

Anti-Oppressions Study & Action Group Resources

Collating resources here from past and future Anti-Oppressions Study & Action Groups for easy reference by community members and KBOO Volunteers and Staff   This is a work in Progress More recent resources will be listed near the top   Take action to Resist   If you... Read more

Voices from the #INAUGURATE The Resistance Mass Protest at Trump's Inauguration

Airs at: Mon, 01/30/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Voices From the #Inaugurate The Resistance Mass Protest at Trump's Inauguration...Gerald Horne on Trump's First Week in Office, Including Threats to Voting Rights, Mexico, China and the Environment.  UNHEARD VOICES FROM THE ONLY PERMITTED PROTEST AT THE INAUGURATION OF D... Read more

RISE UP!

Airs at: Fri, 01/27/2017 at 12:00am - 3:00am
  RISE UP! Songs and Sounds and to help strengthen our resolve to rise up and resist . . .   Take action now! There are 21 months to mid-term elections. Let’s get cracking! What to Do This Week of Jan 22, 2017 Action Checklist for Americans of Conscience https://docs.goo... Read more