Legislation

 
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"ICE Out of Oregon" Rally

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
On Monday, March 6, people representing Portland’s and Woodburn’s immigrant communities rallied outside of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building. KBOO Reporter Canaan Schlesinger has the story, with additional reporting by Pu Epstein.. Read more

Detainees: Mentally Ill & Undocumented Immigrants

Airs at: Mon, 03/13/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Disability Rights Oregon recently published a new report that finds individuals with mental illness held at Multnomah County Detention Center experience significant physical and mental harm. The report recommends steps that the jail should take to better meet the needs o... 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 mediu... Read more

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Gender Equity

Airs at: Tue, 03/07/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Currently the Supreme Court hangs in the balance with a 4-4 liberal conservative split. The former tends to view the Constitution as a living document, while the latter sees it as something static and fixed document. Court decisions have huge impacts on society. One c... Read more

A Really Good Day

Airs at: Thu, 03/02/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Ayelet Waldman is a mother of teenagers, a former federal public defender, and a writer living with mood disorders who discovers an underground culture of clinicians advocating for the therapeutic use of LSD.  Having exhausted virtually every other medical option for ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 20th 2017

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes    Bill Resnick and Bill Smaldone continue their interview on fascism and Trumpism. In the second part today they discuss how Trump and our warrior politicians and forces can manufacture a threat to t... Read more

PSJ 2017 Lobby Day

Airs at: Mon, 02/27/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Karen James interviews Shannon Wight, Deputy Director for Partnership for Safety & Justice, about PSJ’s Lobby Day on April 3, 2017 in Salem, Oregon.  Help families stay together so children can be with their parents as they achieve accountability through supervision, ... Read more

Sex worker rights, bodily autonomy, and criminalization.

Airs at: Tue, 02/14/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
    Red, Portland sex worker activist and organizer, will be joining us in the studio again to talk about sex worker safety, bodily autonomy, and criminalization. This is in front of two events: a City Club forum on February 28th on human trafficking (an ever-present c... Read more

Angela Davis.....Beginnings: Movements of Possibility

Airs at: Tue, 02/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  In times of crisis one can simultaneously see danger and opportunity. Today there is nostalgia for an imagined past and a desire to recreate it. It’s a seductive tale. Things were better then. The country was unchallenged in the world. Jobs were plentiful. Minorities,... Read more

White Supremacy Watch

Airs at: Fri, 02/10/2017 at 7:30pm - 8:00pm
KBOO reporter Canaan Schlesinger assembles reports from activists working to expose rampant and systematic targetting of people of color within the the Oregon Department of Corrections. Strategic Threat Management (STM): military defense strategy, or jargon for racial op... Read more