Activism

Dammed To Extinction Part Two

Airs at: Mon, 11/11/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

For centuries, three unique pods of orcas have hunted chinook salmon along the northwestern Pacific coast. Yet wild chinook salmon here are increasingly scarce. The orcas are going hungry, their numbers dwindling along with their primary source of food. Extinction looms for... Read more

PopMob protests Melody Center for hosting right-wing event

Airs at: Tue, 11/05/2019 at 6:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

The Portland Melody Event center has been facing calls to cancel an event this evening for the right-wing political group the hashtag walkaway campaign. Pop Mob, a local antifascist group has urged the Event Center to cancel the event because of the content of their mes... Read more

11 TRIPP-P 3Nov2019

Airs at: Sun, 11/03/2019 at 11:15pm - Thu, 11/30/2023 at 11:45pm

Produced for: TRIPP-P

TRIPP-P episode 11 features guest Ryan Haas. Ryan is currently a News Content Manager at OPB & audio-host of the podcast "Bundyville." He has previously worked as Editor of The World newspaper in Coos Bay, Oregon and has freelanced in Florida and the Southern Oregon coa... Read more

Buscando America on 11/05/19

Airs at: Tue, 11/05/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Produced for: Buscando America

En esta emisión hablamos sobre las precarias condiciones que se viven en los centros de detención con las activistas y defensoras Maru Mora Villalpando y Colleen Flynn. En krónicas de Viaje, Karen Torrente contextualiza el conflicto chileno desde los años 90´s. Foto: La Res... Read more

Immortal Technique talks new album, Afghanistan and this activist moment

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2019 at 6:00pm

Produced for: Evening News, News In Depth

Immortal Technique is an indigenous hip hop artist and revolutionary, known for his raw, highly-political lyrics. He is performing this evening at 8 p.m. at the Hawthorne Theater. KBOO’s Tammy Habteyes spoke to Immortal Technique about his life, work and perspective on ... Read more

SOUL'D

Airs at: Tue, 11/05/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Dmae features SOUL’D: the economics of our black body, a new devised ensemble piece that examines the American Economic Dream for Black Americans. She'll talk with director Damaris Webb (who is also co-director of Vanport Mosaic) and actress Shareen Jacobs who performs i... Read more

The Amazon & the Health of the Planet

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

This year the world watched with alarm as the Amazon Rainforest burned. While news coverage of those fires has receded as attention shifts to the fires of impeachment, the Amazon is still burning. For many people around the world it is hard to fathom rainforests on fire, ye... Read more

024 Climate Change: Weather Extremes and Rising Sea Levels

Airs at: Mon, 12/02/2019 at 7:00am - 7:30am

Produced for: Prescription for Justice

Guest Kristina Dahl, PhD, senior climate scientist for the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and lead author of Killer Heat in the United States: Climate Choices and the Future of Dangerously Hot Days, Union of Concerned Scientists, 2019. Novembe... Read more

023 Climate Change: Causes, Costs, Consequences, and Call to Action

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2019 at 7:00am - 7:30am

Produced for: Prescription for Justice

This episode reviews the evidence for the ecologically-disastrous human-caused global warming occurring since the advent of industrialization; the health, environmental, and economic consequences of global warming; weather extremes, rising sea levels, changing patterns of i... Read more

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Airs at: Tue, 11/12/2019 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Preference

We spend time today with organizers of one of Portland's Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) events. TDOR is Wednesday, November 20th. Per GLAAD: "Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor... Read more