Law/Court/Crime

Citizen Review Committee Sends Police Misconduct Case to City Council

Airs at: Wed, 11/28/2018 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm

Produced for: Evening News

On November 7, the Citizen Review Committee met for a "conference hearing" on a police misconduct case it first heard back in August. Portland Police Chief Danielle Outlaw was in attendance to present her own findings in the case--she agreed with the CRC on all but two o... Read more

Valve Turner Emily Johnston

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken talks with Emily Johnston about the trial in Minnesota last month where she and two other climate activists enlisted the Necessity Defense in a landmark jury trial. In October of 2016 Emily was one of the five "valve turners" who together instigated shutdo... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for November 26, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Laurie Mercier hosts this episode and we hear these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Johanna Bozuma about making PG&E in CA a publically-owned and responsibly-run utility. Laurie talks with Margot Black of Portland Tenants’ United and with Mercy Strongheart with t... Read more

Guns & White Nationalism: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Airs at: Tue, 11/20/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

The founding of the United States was based on the ideology of white supremacy, the practice of slavery, land theft and genocide. The mass murder of indigenous people by Euro-colonizers was fueled by white nationalism. From the settler colonialists down to the present... Read more

Wheeler Protest Ordinance Fails 3-2

Produced for: Evening News

Wednesday at City Hall, Portland City Council voted down Mayor Ted Wheeler’s proposal to further limit free speech. The proposal would have given the commissioner in charge of the police, him, the authority to designate the time and place for Portland street protests. In... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for November 19, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 11/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick and Larry Klineman talk about local and national immigration politics, including the defeat of Measure 105. Larry Bowlden reviews Barbara Kingsolver's latest novel, Unsheltered. Joe shares special audio and music ab... Read more

Nasty Women Get Shit Done

Airs at: Wed, 11/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: The RadioActivist

Nasty Women Get Shit Done PDX (NWGSD) emerged in Portland, Oregon in response to the 2016 presidential election results when friends gathered together to brainstorm ways to help their community and to actively resist the xenophobia, racism, misogyny, ableism, anti-LGBTQ,... Read more

Evening News on 10/30/18

Airs at: Tue, 10/30/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

Domicile Unknown Report In 2010, the Multnomah County Medical Examiner’s Office added the designation ‘domicile unknown’ to its database of deaths in the county, to indicate that a person may not have had housing at the time they died. Today, the county Health Department... Read more

Kids and Teens Sue the Government Over Climate Change

Airs at: Mon, 10/29/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken talks with Franklin High School senior and activist Annika Mayne about Juliana vs. United States, a law suit that was supposed to begin in a US District Court on October 29th. In it, the plantiffs (young people from Oregon) charged the federal government with ... Read more

Youth Climate Case Rally

Airs at: Mon, 10/29/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

Today, the Oregon federal district court in Eugene was scheduled to begin trying the case “Juliana versus the United States”, which seeks a declaration that the federal government violated the plaintiff’s constitutional rights, by causing dangerous carbon dioxide concent... Read more