Special Programming: Public Affairs

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Here we feature episodes that feature incisive interviews, speeches, thoughts, opinion and convergences.

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Special Programming: Public Affairs on 12/28/09

Airs at: Mon, 12/28/2009 at 10:00am - 10:15am
KBOO's Jenka Soderberg interviews members of the 'Artery of Life' aid caravan to the Gaza Strip, which is currently stuck on the Jordanian-Egyptian border.The latest word from the caravan, which has travelled by land from England to bring humanitarian aid to the Gaza Str... Read more

Palestinian Christians speak in Portland

Airs at: Thu, 12/24/2009 at 12:00am
Christians around the world are gathering to prepare for Christmas. But in Bethlehem, where the Christian religion began, the population lives under a military occupation, and surrounded by a Wall. Two Palestinian Christians, one from Nazareth, and one from Bethlehem, s... Read more

The plight of Christians in Bethlehem today

Airs at: Thu, 12/10/2009 at 12:00am
As Christians around the world prepare for the annual Christmas holiday, Christians who live in Bethlehem say that their plight has been neglected and forgotten. Christian Palestinians have lived in Bethlehem since the time of Christ, but have faced dislocation and repre... Read more

Special Programming: Public Affairs on 11/30/09

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 8:00am - 8:00pm
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  WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS!! On November 30th, 1999, the streets of Seattle were taken over by a people's revolt, the first of what would be many such uprisings against the secretive economic policies of the World Trade Organization,  Both inside and outside of the S... Read more

Voices of November 30

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 12:00am
On the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Organization ministerials in Seattle, six Portland activists recall the dramatic events of November 30, 1999, and discuss the continuing reverberations of the first major street protest of the wireless age.  Featuring stories f... Read more

Indymedia: From Seattle to the World

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 12:00am
As part of "Whose Streets? Our Streets!," KBOO's Maggie Starr looks at the history of the Indymedia Network. The Seattle Independent Media Center was put together to bring the streets of the Seattle to the world during the 1999 WTO protests. Ten years later, it's spawned... Read more

From Marches to Breaking Windows: Talk About Tactics

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 12:00am
Which tactics were appropriate.  Marches? Ones with permits? Blockading streets with lockdowns? How about breaking windows of corporate buildings. Would the world have heard of the dissent in this country without these tactics? Hear the voices of activists with divergent... Read more

Ala' Jaradat on the issue of Palestinian political detainees

Airs at: Fri, 11/27/2009 at 12:00am
KBOO speaks with Ala' Jaradat of the Palestinian prisoner support organization Addameer, about the conditions facing Palestinian political detainees - including family visitation, administrative detention, imprisoned children and women, and mothers whose children were bo... Read more

Special Programming: Public Affairs on 11/26/09

Airs at: Thu, 11/26/2009 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
5:00 - 6:00 pm Thurs. Nov. 26thJenka Soderberg interviews Dhoruba bin Wahad, who is speaking from a hotel in Jordan after being detained and then denied entry into Palestine by Israeli authorities.  bin Wahad is a former political prisoner in the US who was charged in 19... Read more

Dhoruba bin Wahad and Naji Mujahid: Denied entry into Palestine

Airs at: Thu, 11/26/2009 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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5:00 - 6:00 pm Thurs. Nov. 26th, 2009 KBOO interviews Dhoruba bin Wahad, who is speaking from a hotel in Jordan after being detained and then denied entry into Palestine by Israeli authorities. bin Wahad is a former political prisoner in the US who was charged in 1971 w... Read more