Evening News

      The Hatian and Caribbean American Organization of Texas has been working to help bring aid to the country of Haiti.      KBOO’s Ken Barbie spoke to Alein Ferere of the organization about their efforts, and what they are seeing in the country of Haiti. Read more

 A group of ten immigrant farmworkers have mobilized a campaign against the owners of ruby ridge dairy in Pasco, Washington. the workers claim that owners Dick and Ruby Bengen stripped them of their wages and fired a number of workers for attempting to unionise with the Uni... Read more

Students at Portland State University held a protest on Friday to challenge the university administration’s plans to turn PSU into a corporation. KBOO’s Crystal Elinski was there, and brings us the sounds of the protest: Read more

Unemployment rates in the state of Oregon continue to be among the highest in the nation, despite some modest gains this month. KBOO’s Jamie Partridge brings us the latest in his series on employment and unemployment in Oregon Read more

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While most countries around the world have focused on sending search and rescue teams and doctors to Haiti, the US government’s response to the disaster has been to send military troops to secure the airport and nearby areas. Signal FM was the only radio station that remain... Read more

Portland’s Haitian-American community has organized several fundraising vigils already, to raise funds for the devastated island country.  After a 7.0 earthquake hit the island of Haiti earlier this week, humanitarian aid organizations have scrambled to send relief workers ... Read more

Yesterday, we heard from an Oregon activist who spoke of her experience protesting the apartheid Wall in Palestine.  Today, KBOO reporter Isobel Charle speaks with another Oregon activist who is currently based in Jerusalem. Read more

Yesterday, two groundbreaking black fighter pilots who flew in World War Two spoke at Portland Community College’s Cascade Campus. The two pilots were members of the famous Tuskegee [tus-KEE-gee] Airmen, the first African Americans to fly fighter planes in combat.  Lieute... Read more

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