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Sex4Sale: Episode 5, Legal and Enforcement Issues

Airs at: Tue, 11/21/2017 at 5:00pm - 6:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This is Episode 5 in KBOO's ten-part series on the business of sex in Portland, Oregon.  In this issue we discuss enforcement issues with local law and police:  Agent Denise Biehen of tghe FBI, Attorney Scott Kieren of the US Dept. of Justice and Undercover Agent "A" and Of... Read more

Sex4Sale Episode 5

Airs at: Tue, 11/21/2017 at 5:00pm - 6:15pm
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PhotoVoice Empowering Community

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Desiree Hellegers talks with Sarah Chivers of the Noble Foundation about organizing work pushing back against the resurgence of white supremacy in Kelso, WA.    The upcoming PhotoVoice project will be December 9, 2pm-5pm at 2500 Main Street in Vancouver, WA.   Read more

The Fight for Free Time

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Clayton Morgareidge shares a shortened version of an essay by Miya Tokumitsu in Jacobin: "The Fight for Free Time."    Image by William Merritt Chase, Public Domain   Read more

Sex4Sale: Episode 3, Portland's Sex Culture

Airs at: Tue, 11/14/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This is the third episode of Sex4Sale, a 10-part series about the business of sex in Portland, OR--what we know, what we don't know, and what we think we know. In this episode, we'll take a look at the overall sex industry in Portland and how citizens--involved or not--view... Read more

The People's Summit

Airs at: Wed, 11/29/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Over the weekend of June 9, 2017, over 4,000 activists gathered in Chicago for the People's Summit. Organizers described the Summit as a convening of organizations and individuals committed to social, racial and economic justice. Those who attended pushed forth a people'... Read more

Fighting Budget Cuts at Washington State University

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel talks with Desiree Hellegers about an organizing campaign to push back against planned budget cuts at Washington State University, including to the Vancouver, WA campus. The WSU President's proposal would eliminate theater entirely, cut graduate stipends and po... Read more

New Seasons Workers unite

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
After their November 1st delivery of a letter to CEO Wendy Collie, signed by hundreds of workers from eighteen (18) stores, New Seasons workers are still waiting for a reponse to their demand for collective bargaining.  New Season Workers United members join Labor Radio to ... Read more

Deportations, Ice raids, DACA & Oregon's Drivers Licencing

Airs at: Wed, 11/22/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Linda Olson-Osterlund welcomes Andrea Williams, the Executive Director of Causa....Oregon's Immigrant Rights Organization founded in 1995 by farmworkers, Latinos, immigrants, and allies in order to defeat ballot measures that would have negatively impacted the lives of L... Read more

Happy Women in Apprenticeship Day!

Airs at: Thu, 11/16/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This week is National Apprenticeship Week, established by President Obama in 2015. Today, November 16, is Women in Apprenticeship Day in Oregon as declared by Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler. In Portland, one of the primary organizations working wi... Read more