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Demand Justice for Quanice Hayes with Don't Shoot PDX

Airs at: Tue, 02/28/2017 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Don't Shoot PDX will be at Wednesday's city council meeting to demand justice for Quanice Hayes, the teenager who was killed by Portland Police on February 9. Organizer Teressa Raiford spoke with KBOO News to talk about Wednesday's action as well as the violent police respo... Read more

Cleveland 4 & Political Incarcerations in the Age of "trumpism"

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
The Cleveland 4 & Political Incarcerations in the Age of "trumpism" Adam Carpinelli interviews attorney Amanda Schemkes about the case of the Cleveland Four, Occupy activists arrested in 2012, accused of plotting to blow up a bridge.  The plot, however, was crafted by the F... Read more

"Quanice Hayes.....Say his name!"

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  On Thursday February 9th police shot and killed 17 year old Quanice Hayes.  They claim he matched the description of a suspect in an armed robbery that occurred hours before.  Police also say that they recovered a replica hand gun near Quanice.  Other details have been w... Read more

Justice for Quanice Hayes with the Portland Student Action Network

Airs at: Tue, 02/14/2017 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
The Portland Student Action Network, a group of activists from the greater Portland area's high schools,  is holding a rally this Thursday in honor of Quanice Hayes, a 17-year-old who recently died at the hands of the Portland Police. The rally will bring high school studen... 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, wo... 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 oppre... Read more

Embedded & Arrested at Standing Rock

Airs at: Fri, 02/17/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Jenni Monet took to Medium.com and wrote: "The morning after I was bonded out of the Morton County jail, I took to Twitter and posted a detail that I only could have known from actually being on the inside. “#MniWiconi is inscribed everywhere,” I tweeted. And it’s true.... Read more

Michelle Alexander: Race & Caste in the U.S.

Airs at: Fri, 02/10/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. As an associate professor of law at Stanford Law School, she directed the Civil Rights Clinics and pursued a research agenda focused on the intersection of race and criminal justic... Read more

Tom Nelson on Trump's Muslim Ban

Airs at: Fri, 02/03/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
  Back in 2004 attorney Tom Nelson had some advice for Muslim Americans who found themselves scrutinized by the US government...."My legal advice to my Muslim clients is," said Nelson, "'Don't talk to them. Avoid them. Do what you can to not give them any information, beca... Read more

Beyond Vietnam: Martin Luther King Jr

Airs at: Tue, 01/31/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Martin Luther King Jr.’s charismatic “I Have a Dream” speech is emblazoned in our historical memories. But another address to a much smaller audience on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York is no less significant. There King demonstrated his deep understanding o... Read more