Evening News

Normal 0 In the last few weeks, Arizona has been making most of the immigration-related headlines, but a protest yesterday in downtown Portland brought concerns over Oregon’s treatment of immigrants into the public spotlight. KBOO’s Evan Tenenbaum reports….    Read more

Normal 0   The Portland City Council passed an ordinance this morning challenging the Arizona immigration law SB 1070, which allows for the racial profiling of immigrants. Although the Portland ordinance is not as strongly worded as similar rules passed in Seattle ... Read more

Normal 0 The Service Employees International Union held a rally in Portland today to commemorate twenty years of the Justice for Janitors campaign. KBOO’s Isobel Charlay was there, and brings us a sampling of today’s rally, in which union members challenge the recent de... Read more

There was an action event held on Thursday, June 10th to stop the annual slaughtering on dolphins.  There were petitions to be signed which will be sent to the government in Japan, the United States government, and the International Whaling Commission.  With the legislation... Read more

There is a new statewide Bias Crime Reporting System in place and a press conference was held today at the Q Center in north Portland discussing it... KBOO's James Dixon brings us the report... Read more

There is an action event being held on Thursday, June 10th at the Someday Lounge in dowtown Portland in response to the annual slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan.  KBOO's James Dixon brings us the story... Read more

There was a press conference held at the Q Center at 4115 N. Mississippi Avenue on Weednesday, June 9th in response to several gay bashings that occurred over the Memorial Day weekend.  Here is the audio from the press conference... We apologize in advance for the rough aud... Read more

Over the Memorial Day weekend there have been a number of gay bashings affecting Portland's queer community and on June 2nd there was a discussion forum held at the Q Center to discuss the issue... Here's the audio from the news report... Read more

There was a Gay Bashing Discussion Forum held at the Q Center located at 4115 N. Mississippi Avenue in response to several bias crimes committed against queers over the weekend... The queer community and the local city officials had a roundtable discussion to address the is... Read more

Normal 0 Don’t miss the most important anti LNG event this year, this Thursday May 27th at the Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE MLK blvd at 1pm. The Palomar Pipeline, designed to transport imported liquefied natural gas, is a major threat to communities a... Read more