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What Is the Feet to the Fire Campaign?

Airs at: Wed, 09/19/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    In the wake of the recent release of the autopsy report for Jason Washington, a 45-year-old man shot dead by PSU police officers in June, the seeming futility of seeking justice for police violence is again in Portland's public eye. The autopsy report comes just six d... Read more

Sexual Assault Claim Against Kavanaugh

Airs at: Thu, 09/20/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Join Voices From the Edge guest host Linda Olson-Osterlund as she talks about President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, who is being accused of sexually and physically assaulting a 15-year-old girl at a party during his high school years. ... Read more

Press**Watch: Eat the Rich

Produced for:  Presswatch
President Trump is going to be really hard to get rid of.  There's a good chance he will win again in 2020.  How, you may ask?  Well, he's a triple threat:   1. He represents the super-rich, and they are very happy with him.  He has destroyed banking regulations put in pl... Read more

Buscando America on 09/18/18

Airs at: Tue, 09/18/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Se llevó acabo la Cumbre Global de Acción Climática en San Francisco y Javier Sierra, columnista de Sierra Club BC habla también sobre tormentas tropicales que atacan en las Carolinas y Filipinas. Iván Hernández habla de la iniciativa 22 la cual decidirá la Ley Santuario en... Read more

9/11 Unmasked, Part 3: David Chandler and the Day of Magical Physics

Airs at: Tue, 09/18/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  In Part 3 of my four-part series on the work of the 9/11 Consensus Panel, I speak with David Chandler about the physics behind the collapse of the three World Trade Center Towers on September 11th, 2001. Why do the buildings look like they came down in controlled demolit... Read more

Talking with Charlene Carruthers, author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements

Airs at: Tue, 09/18/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
Alyssa Pariah and I will be joined on-air by Charlene Carruthers. Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements is the highly anticipated first book from Carruthers—one of America's most influential activists. In Unapologetic she issues a call-to... Read more

Pipeline Protests Beyond Standing Rock

Airs at: Wed, 09/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Lisa Loving's guest is local multimedia journalist Christopher Francisco. He's also host of KBOO's show Human Beings With Five Fingers  https://kboo.fm/program/human-beings-5-fingers  . Christopher will talk about his work covering Standing Rock, and how the government s... Read more

2018 Fall News and Public Affairs Day on KBOO

News & Public Affairs Day only happens during a Membership Drive, bringing really great speakers: The best minds of our times. The most pertinent topics. Our most insightful programming. Brought to you as part of our Membership Drive. With every word, with every note, you... Read more

Lessons from German Antifascist Movements

Airs at: Fri, 09/14/2018 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
The latest rise of fascist movements and parties has once again made it clear: organised antifascist resistance is necessary. In order to successfully intervene and stop fascism from spreading, it is useful to take a look at the different experiences built from movements in... Read more

Portland Auditor Blasts Short Term Housing Policy

Produced for:  Evening News
The City of Portland’s Auditor Office presented their report on short term rentals, like Air-Bee-and-Bee, to city council this morning. The report chides the city for not keeping better records and for not enforcing their own regulations. Of the nearly five thousand Air-Be... Read more