On Octobere 11, five climate activists shut off the flow of Canadian tar
sands oil through pipelines in Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana and
Washington. They broke into enclosures around cut-off valves for the four
pipelines, cut chains and carefully turned off the va...
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October 12 is the traditional "Columbus Day," marking the day in 1492 the
first Columbus expedition made landfall in the Western Hemisphere, on an
island in the Caribbean. The day is still recognized as a national holiday in
the United States and throughout the Americas ...
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Today (Wednesday, Oct. 5) in Portland there will be a Rally for Clean Air
before the Department of Environmental Quality holds its final statewide
Cleaner Air Oregon public forum 6-8 PM, at the Oregon Convention Center
(https://www.facebook.com/events/102691001409...
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After AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka issued a statement on September 15
(link below) harshly criticizing Native Americans and others opposing the
Dakota Access Pipeline DAPL) , a growing number of progressive unions and
labor organizations--many of them AFL-CIO a...
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Host Paul Roland welcomes scholar and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz back to
KBOO for her third appearance on Wednesday Talk Radio
(http://kboo.fm/media/36958-roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-indigenous-peoples-history-united-states;
http://kboo.fm/media/38188-conversati...
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Jacqueline Keeler lives in the Portland area and is co-founder of Eradicating
Native Mascotry, a group which works to eliminate offensive Native sports
mascots and other degrading cultural appropriations.
She has written on a wide range of issues of concern to Indigen...
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An unprecedented legal challenge to the entire fossil fuel industry,
government regulatory agencies and federal climate and energy policy is
slowly making its way through the federal courts. And for now its right here
in Oregon, in Eugene U.S. District Court. "Kelsey Cas...
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Host Paul Roland speaks with mayoral candidate and urban planning activist
Sarah Iannarone, Amanda Reese of Backpacks of Hope and Austin Rose of
Portland Tenants United. They'll talk about the City Council's discussion on
extending their declared "Housing Emergency," the...
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