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Old Mole Variety Hour for June 15, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 06/15/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This episode is hosted by Frann Michel, and includes these segments: BLM Protests: Bill Resnick talks with Greg McKelvey and reflects on the protests locally and nationally, which continue and as of this weekend show no sign of diminishing. Black Panthers and Public Hea... Read more

Portland Police Citizen Review Committee recruits new members

Airs at: Wed, 06/10/2020 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  Portland's longest-standing citizen police oversight board is the Citizen Review Committee (CRC), which is part of the Auditor's Office's Independent Police Review division (IPR). The CRC is an eleven-member, all-volunteer body that hears appeals of police misconduct cas... Read more

Examining the role of police unions in stagnating change

Airs at: Tue, 06/09/2020 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  "No police union has ever criticized a cop, no matter how egregious that cop's behavior. The union will defend them no matter what."  Two weeks of demonstrations around the country call out for an end to police brutality and racial injustice. These protests can count the... Read more

KBOO JOINS A NATIONAL GEORGE FLOYD REMEMBRANCE BY RADIO

PORTLAND, OR, JUNE 8, 2020 - On Tuesday, June 9 at 12 noon KBOO joins radio stations nationwide to play Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come,” in commemoration of the life of George Floyd. Floyd’s gruesome killing May 25 has been the focus of international protests. M... Read more

A Heartfelt Concern - Please read, Please share

Greetings.   I humbly come to you with this letter to address an overwhelming concern that is happening in America today. Among the pandemic also known as the corona-virus 19/COVID 19 for three (3) months, there has been an uptick in racial violence. As a Black woman her... Read more

Malik Miah on the Uprising

Airs at: Mon, 06/08/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In an interview pre-recorded when only one of the four police killers of George Floyd had been arrested, Bill Resnick talks with Malik Miah, a long-time Black rights and revolutionary socialist activist, a former aviation mechanic,  a contributing editor with the US sociali... Read more

16 TRIPP-P 1Jun2020

Airs at: Thu, 06/04/2020 at 12:00am - Fri, 06/30/2023 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
During the Black Lives Matter & George Floyd protests that have been happening daily in downtown Portland, Oregon since the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police department, TRIPP-P co-host and independant journalist Cory Elia  was hit with a baton a... Read more

News update for 5/8/20

Airs at: Sat, 05/09/2020 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Daily News Headlines
Gov. Kate Brown yesterday outlined a phased plan to reopen the state starting with rural areas that have seen few cases of Covid-19. On May 15, Brown will loosen restrictions statewide on day cares and on retail shops that were previously closed. Counties that have very sm... Read more

Jails and COVID-19

Airs at: Wed, 04/22/2020 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies, a discussion about COVID-19 and jails, specifically Rikers Island in New York, featuring Marcus Brown, an individual recently released from Rikers; New York State Assemblyman Walter T. Mosley; Tahanee Dunn, Prisoner Rights Attorney with the Bro... Read more

Calla Felicity Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Calla Felicity is a running for Oregon's 1st House District seat.  She talked with Don Merrill about how shoveling sulphur opened her eyes to the plight of women in blue collar work, how she has reshaped the anger she felt in her teenage years into the steadfast determiniat... Read more