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News In Depth on 01/23/17 - Portland's Inauguration Day Protest

Airs at: Mon, 01/23/2017 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for News In Depth
Last Friday, January 20th, was inauguration day. And shortly after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, protestors gathered in Portland’s Pioneer Square for an anti-Trump rally and march. KBOO reporter Ken Jones was there with a recorder and talked with several of the p... Read more

News You Can Use

Airs at: Sun, 01/22/2017 at 2:00pm - Sun, 01/29/2017 at 2:00pm
Produced for This Is How We See It
Ringling Bros Circus to close it's doors after 146 years in operation.  Republicans closer to repealing the Affordable Care Act.  Four teens torture disabled man for hours.  Join us as we discuss these topics and more.  Read more

HEALTH ACTION 2017:HEALTH ACTION: UPDATE ON MUMIA AND LATEST ON VIEQUES NAVY POLLUTION

Airs at: Mon, 01/23/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Disability Awareness
  * Mumia Abu-Jamal on his recent victory in federal court, where a judge ordered him to finally get hepatitis C treatment. * Roberto Rabin, founder of Radio Vieques, describes the ongoing struggle to get the U.S. government to make good on its promise to decontaminate the ... Read more

Criminal Justice in Trump's Amerika

Airs at: Mon, 01/23/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
  Tonight on Prison Pipeline, host Doug McVay talks with Andy Ko, Executive Director of the Partnership for Safety & Justice, about the upcoming Oregon state legislative session, and about criminal justice reform in the age of Trump. Partnership for Safety & Justice   Read more

Inauguration Day Special Coverage

Airs at: Fri, 01/20/2017 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
  VOICES OF A NATION: A CALL TO ACTION: Reports from protests, rallies, walk-outs across the country and around the world, including: Austin, Chicago, Denver, Lansing, London, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco and the local communities of Pacifica affiliates around the coun... Read more

Drop the Military Industrial Complex

Airs at: Fri, 01/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Marvin and Angie discuss US militarism around the world, and how the next 4 years may affect the lives of veterans and their family members.  Veteran's Voice Radio Show with Northwest Veterans for Peace deals with matters of war and peace. They deal with veterans health ... Read more

INSANE CLOWN PRESIDENT: Matt Taibbi on Presswatch

Airs at: Thu, 01/26/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Presswatch
  “Trained for decades to be little more than good consumers, we had become a nation of reality shoppers, mixing and matching news items to fit our own self-created identities. We rejoiced in the idea that reality was not an absolute but a choice.” —Matt Taibbi, from INSAN... Read more

Brian Covert on the Press and the CIA

Airs at: Wed, 01/18/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Political Perspectives
  Peter and Mickey spend the hour with journalist and media scholar Brian Covert, discussing the too-close relationship between the CIA and U.S. media, as well as other issues, including the Obama Administration "pivot" toward Asia.  Brian Covert is an independent journal... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 16, 2017

Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this edition of the Old Mole. Here's your Table of Contents: 1. Bill Resnick talks with two Portland activists about the Bunk Bus and traveling to Standing Rock. 2. Norm Diamond reads from and comments on the late John Berger's essay “The Nature of Mass De... Read more

DEATH AND SUFFERING IN THE BORDERLANDS

Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Sophie Smith, an activist and humanitarian worker with No More Deaths--an organization in Southern Arizona that works to stop the death and suffering in the borderlands, much of which is the direct result of US Homeland Security policies.  They talk ab... Read more