Government/Politics

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Basic Rights Oregon Responds to Trump Trans Memo

Airs at: Tue, 10/23/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  Basic Rights Oregon hosted a press conference in response to the Trans Memo from the Trump Administration. The memo outlines a proposal to federally define gender as only male or female and determined at birth. The proposal outlined in the memo will not impact Oregon s... Read more

This Week's Portland City Council

Airs at: Tue, 10/23/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  For a look at what to expect at this week’s city council meetings, we go to KBOO’s Sam Bouman. Read more

Evening News on 10/23/18

Airs at: Tue, 10/23/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Tavern shooting Police rushed out to the Glass House Tavern at 97th and Sandy Boulevard around 1:30 this morning after reports of gunfire. When they got there, they found a man on the sidewalk with at least one gunshot wound, who they pronounced dead at the scene. Whil... Read more

Folsom50 Project

Airs at: Mon, 10/29/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli interviews Danny Wilson and Tracy Schlapp, founders of the Folsom50 project looking at Johnny Cash’s work around prison reform 50 years later.  The project brings music and artwork to incarcerated persons and they held their first concert at Columbia Rive... Read more

New FCC Rules Could Harm Community TV

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  Community-access TV stations across the country are facing new rule proposals at the FCC that could severely damage their funding base. KBOO’s Summer Barraza has this story from the Oregon News Service. Read more

Oregonians United Against Profiling

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  Oregonians United Against Profiling is a coalition that is campaigning for the public to vote “no” on measure 105. Measure 105 is the anti-sanctuary state measure on the November election ballot. KBOO reporter Kyle Kerezsi spoke with Ivan Hernandez about the coalition... Read more

Climate Change and NeoFascism

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel reports on climate change and authoritarian states, and how both are consequences of capitalism.  You can find the text of a longer version of her remarks, with links to sources, on the Old Mole blog. Image cropped from Klimacamp 2018 - 121 - 01.06.2018 20... Read more

Zunes on Khashoggi, Trump, Saudi Arabia, and more

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks to Stephen Zunes, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco, about the torture/murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump administration and the new Saudi Crown Prince, and about what might be done (and is happe... Read more

Democratic Autopsy: One Year Later, with Norman Solomon

Airs at: Wed, 10/24/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Join host Paul Roland with his guest Norman Solomon, as they dissect the moribund Democratic Party and its prospects for revival. In October 2017, a team of progressive researchers published “Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis,” which probed the causes of the d... Read more

The University of NIKE: How Corporate Cash Bought Higher Education

Airs at: Wed, 10/24/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  The RadioActivist
This week on The RadioActivist, Joshua Hunt on his book The University of NIKE: How Corporate America Bought American Higher Education. Hosts Lisa Loving and Suzanne LaGrande will be taking your calls, the number is 503-231-8187. And we have a few activist events coming ... Read more