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Council Reacts to Citizen Feedback on Police Oversight Proposals

Airs at: Thu, 08/10/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm

Produced for: Evening News

On Wednesday, August 9, the Portland City Council reconsidered three police oversight proposals that prompted a long and angry public hearing last Thursday. Council uncharacteristically took a lot of that testimony into consideration in the intervening week: --A proposed P... Read more

Mobilizing Resentment: Chip Berlet

Airs at: Tue, 08/08/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Us versus them politics, pitting one group against another, is as old as the hills. Vulnerable groups are targeted. Language is weaponized. And resentment is mobilized along race, class and gender lines. Unbridled nationalism with lots of flag waving is the soundtrack. T... Read more

Swing'n'Country

Airs at: Sat, 08/05/2017 at 6:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Swing 'n' Country

Here's two good reasons to get up early Saturday morning- beat the heat and tune in to Swing'n'Country. Molly's your host and she's got 3 hours of country music to get your weekend started off right. We'll hear songs by the legendary songwriter Bobby Braddock and listen t... Read more

Stopping Fascism: Chris Hedges

Airs at: Tue, 08/01/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Recorded at the Aladdin Theater, Chris Hedges visited Portland and spoke as a guest of KBOO community radio. Chris Hedges is an award-winning journalist who has covered wars in the Balkans, the Middle East and Central America. He writes a weekly column for Truthdig.org ... Read more

Bureaucrat or Commodity? Becoming Human Again

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2017 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

Sean Kerrigan, author of Bureaucratic Insanity: The American Bureaucrat’s Descent into Madness,says that civilization is about the concentration of power. We are at a point now in which bureaucracy has stripped our lives of meaning. We will talk about bureaucracy, collaps... Read more

The Politics of Living - Episode 6

Airs at: Wed, 08/02/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: The Politics of Living

August 2, 2017 "Life should be an adventure": Comic Sharon Lacey shares her journey of reimagining her work - from media to teaching to comedy. Sharon discusses her fear of Alzheimer's, her personal challenge not to waste a single moment, and her brand of motiva... Read more

PUBLIC LANDS UNDER ATTACK: Their History and Your Role

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

How can we protect our public lands? From the Trump Administration to the Far Right militants who occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Reserve in 2016, our public lands are under threat like never before. Cecil and Celeste welcome Kristin Teigen to discuss her upcomin... Read more

Protesters Interrupt Police Swearing-In Ceremony

Airs at: Thu, 07/27/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm

Produced for: Evening News

This morning, the Portland Police Bureau swore in 13 new officers and two professional staff at the downtown Portland Building. The ceremony was interrupted briefly by protesters who called out the police, and Chief Mike Marshman in particular, for failing to prevent seven ... Read more

Siletz River Ecosystem Intervenes in Lawsuit against Aerial Pesticide Ban

Airs at: Thu, 07/27/2017 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm

Produced for: Evening News

On Monday July 24, the Siletz River Ecosystem filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit against Lincoln County along Oregon’s coast. The lawsuit was brought by Rex Capri of Newport and Wakefield Farms of Eddyville, who dispute the legality of a ballot measure bann... Read more

Naomi Klein in conversation with Jo Ann Hardesty

Airs at: Thu, 07/27/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

Naomi Klein joins Jo Ann Hardesty in a wide ranging and engaging discussion. Recorded in Beaverton at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing. “This is one attempt to uncover how we got to this surreal political moment. It is also an attempt to predict how, under cover o... Read more