Law/Court/Crime

City Council Receives Report on Police Deadly Force without Public Testimony

Airs at: Fri, 02/16/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm

Produced for: Evening News

TRANSCRIPT KBOO: Yesterday, Portland City Council—well, three-fifths of the council—was presented with a report on six police shootings. The report was investigated and written by the OIR Group out of Los Angeles, and included recommendations for increased accountabi... Read more

The End of Policing

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Alex Vitale is Professor of Sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. Vitales book The End of Policing, is an accessible study of police history as an imperial tool for social control that continues to exacerbate class a... Read more

Mental Health Fitness for Law Enforcement

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Many people experience trauma in their lives, trauma that can have a lasting impact. Law enforcement officers and emergency services personnel experience trauma on a regular basis. While we expect police and EMTs to meet a standard of physical fitness and health in order... Read more

Family of Quanice Hayes and Supporters Rally Outside East Precinct

Airs at: Tue, 02/13/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

The family of Quanice Hayes recently announced that they will be suing the city of Portland, as well as the police officers involved in shooting Quanice just over a year ago, on February 9, 2017. The Hayes family has also been active at the grassroots level over the... Read more

Senate Immigration Debate Begins: Larry Kleinman

Airs at: Tue, 02/13/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Bill Resnick welcomes PCUN's co-founder Larry Kleinman to the KBOO studio to discuss the history of the fight for immigration rights and today's resistance movements. from the New York Times: Senate Begins ‘Wild’ Week of Debate on Immigration, Outcome Unknown With ... Read more

Necessity Defense

Airs at: Mon, 02/12/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker discuss the moral necessity defense and how it has been used in civil disobedience cases, including the recent prosecution of climate activists known as the "valve-turners" who shut down five pipelines carrying tar sands crude oil. Photo co... Read more

"The porn won't load"; Portland's Gender Queery; and Sasha Buchert on current trans law cases.

Airs at: Tue, 02/13/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Preference

Portland artist Sean Chamberlain will join us to talk about his new exhibit "the porn won't load," an 'examination of the social construction of pornography and its cultural output.' Sean is a queer artist & curator and co-director of project205, a free educational archi... Read more

Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons

Airs at: Mon, 02/12/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Adam Carpinelli interviews folks from The Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons (or FTP). This project began in 2015, focusing on the effort to stop construction of a new federal prison in the coalfields of East Kentucky. It is also currently focused on opposing a phosphate mi... Read more

The State of Civil Rights in the US

Airs at: Sun, 02/04/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am

Produced for: Century Of Lies

This week on Century of Lies we continue our look at the state of marijuana legalization in the US, we hear from Vanita Gupta with the Leadership Council on Civil and Human Rights on the state of civil rights in America, and we pay tribute to the legendary activist Denni... Read more

ICE Raids in Northern California

Airs at: Fri, 02/02/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm

Produced for: Evening News

In the last three days of January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents launched a massive immigration sweep in Northern California. It is the largest localized action of its kind since Trump took office. Businesses in San Francisco, Sacramento, and San Jose were se... Read more