Civil Liberties

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: LIVE at KBOO!

Airs at: Fri, 02/23/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Join Ani as she welcomes Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz to KBOO to discuss her new book LOADED.  Call in and join the conversation. Loaded...A Disarming History of the Second Amendment America loves guns. From Daniel Boone and Jesse James, to the NRA and Seal Team 6, gun culture has... Read more

Buscando America on 02/20/18

Airs at: Tue, 02/20/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En este programa  transmitido desde la Ciudad de México, hablamos con Eduardo Aguilar,  joven documentalista que fue deportado debido a su activismo político.  Read more

Crime and Punishment in Black America: James Forman Jr.

Airs at: Tue, 02/20/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Critics of the U.S. criminal justice system such as Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stevenson have assailed the rise of mass incarceration with its disproportionate impact on people of color. The war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American le... Read more

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 accountabilit... 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 and ... 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 l... Read more

KBOO News Poem: Trump Shoes

Airs at: Wed, 02/14/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    A gaudy threat hangs over the Washington DC of our souls--KBOO News Poet Dan Raphael is on the scene. Read more

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

Airs at: Wed, 02/14/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Today we spend the hour with historian, author and activist Gerald Horne and his new critically praised book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean. Headlines on... Read more

Buscando America on 02/13/18

Airs at: Tue, 02/13/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Desde la Ciudad de México, escucha lo que sucedió en la visita del Concejo indígena de Gobierno y María de Jesús Patricio Martínez por la UAM Xochimilco. Además, Alfredo Fuentes entrevista a Matias Trejo co-fundador del Instituto de Cultura Oregoniana - ICO. 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 th... Read more