Civil Rights/Human Rights

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Evening News on 09/16/20

Airs at: Wed, 09/16/2020 at 5:00pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  On this special Membership Drive edition of the KBOO Evening News: Fires and smoke continue to overwhelm much of the state; More evidence emerges that ICE facilities are performing hysterectomies on unsuspecting women; And, President Trump touts herd immunity, while say... Read more

Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty on reducing police terror

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2020 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  "[It] depends on that officer's perception of the call that they're on. I also know that ... community members have been trained to make the calls sound as scary as possible to get a quicker police response." Before Jo Ann Hardesty was a Portland City Commissioner, she s... Read more

Book Review

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Patricia Kullberg reads a review by Larry Bowlden of two historical novels by Marlowe Benn, Passing Fancies and Relative Fortunes. Read more

Street Journalism

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers interviews Lisa Loving about her street journalism training for covering protests and more. She is the author of Street Journlism: Understand and Report the News in Your Community. Read more

Schools and the Pandemic

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Portland Association of Teachers President Elizabeth Thiel about reopening of schools. Read more

Drugs and Development

Airs at: Wed, 09/16/2020 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Drug Regulation and Development. The nonprofit Health Poverty Action recently began a webinar series entitled A World With Drugs: Legal Regulation Through A Development Lens. They held the first webinar in this series recently, Drugs are a Deve... Read more

Remembering A Friend

Airs at: Wed, 09/16/2020 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
Kevin Zeese was an attorney, writer, and progressive political leader. Kevin passed away unexpectedly on Sept. 5, 2020. On this edition of Free Culture Radio, host Doug McVay remembers his colleague, mentor, and longtime friend who first inspired him to get involved in drug... Read more

LaRhonda Steele

Airs at: Tue, 09/15/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae talks with Portland's First Lady of Blues, LaRhonda Steele. We hear her talk about the struggles as a Black woman in Portland's Blues scene. It's tough times for Portland's musicians who depend on live performance for a living, and even tougher for Black artists dur... Read more

Ep. 110 It Takes A Village To Transform

Airs at: Sat, 09/12/2020 at 12:00am - Wed, 09/30/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Village Vibes Podcast
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Portland is not Burning

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
All summer Portland has been the brunt of vicious attacks by Trump and his minions, denouncing the city as a liberal democratic bastion under siege by mobs of radical, anarchist thugs. After sending in uninvited federal police to put down the city’s nightly black lives matt... Read more