Evening News

  Protesters gathered in front of the Multnomah County Detention Center on Friday, to show support for activist Joel Dow. Dow was arrested on Friday, during a protest against police killings. KBOO spoke to one of the people at the Joel rally about the situatio.   Joel Dow ... Read more

      Portlanders are wondering if their concerns will be heard, as state and federal move forward on plans for a new Columbia River Bridge. KBOO’s David Osborn has more. Read more

    Animal rights activists have launched a 24-hour a day vigil to keep watch over sea   lions around the Bonneville Dam. The sea lions are being trapped and slaughtered as part of a federal and state government plan to control their population. According to Julie Farris of ... Read more

       The vigil culminated on Northeast Sandy Boulevard, at the site of the recent killing of unarmed black man Aaron Campbell by Portland police officer Ronald Frashour on January 29th.   Today, there is a protest going on right now in the South Park Blocks to challenge t... Read more

      President Obama plans to sign the health care reform bill into law this Tuesday. After months of back-and-forth and compromise, the reform bill barely resembles the original proposed by key members of the Democratic party last Fall. What it does contain, however, is a... Read more

This is Paul Cienfuegos' talk on the ascendancy of corporate rights over the rights of of people as citizens, and how this trend can be reversed.  The assertion of corporate over citizen rights came into sharp focus this January with the Supreme Court's "Citizens United" de... Read more

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Nancy Matela has been a water-rights activist for several years, now with Food and Water Watch and the AAlliance for Democracy.  Here, she speaks with KBOO's Ethan Scarl in commemoration of World Water Day,  Nancy gives us an overview of the water issues around the globe. Read more

Normal 0 The Portland City Council recently passed a resolution asking the federal government to re-examine studies on health impacts of cell phone towers. Respect P-D-X is a local group that has been working against new cell phone tower construction in residential neig... Read more

  Last night, Portland residents gathered at a school board meeting to protest the Starbase program. The program, which the city has participated in since nineteen-ninety-three, sends students to a military base for a week, to study math and science. Here are recordings from... Read more