Civil Rights/Human Rights

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Stone & Sjursen: The Unbearable Violence of Being American - Ep 71

Airs at: Tue, 07/28/2020 at 5:45pm - Tue, 08/04/2020 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  Fortress On A Hill
(click here to see the video version of this episode.) America's military industrial complex and multiple presidential administrations have funnelled several generations of soldiers through unwinnable wars from Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq seemingly without qualms. What... Read more

Hugh Palcic Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Hugh Palcic is a democrat running for the Senate district 28.  He talks with Don Merrill about how he thinks the non affiliated voters will be important to help him win what has historically been a Republican seat,  why he says the five counties his district covers are "adr... Read more

Portland Protest Demands and the Fund The People Coalition in Washington County

Airs at: Mon, 07/27/2020 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
This week on Prison Pipeline, the demands of the Portland protesters and information on a coalition forming in Washington County focused on Defunding the police.   We speak to Jahdi Portland based, Rapper, Visual Artist, Organizer, and Hooper who has been active in the Po... Read more

IPR Director Ross Caldwell

Airs at: Fri, 07/24/2020 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
  Portland’s primary police oversight system is overseen by the City Auditor’s Independent Police Review Division (IPR). IPR was founded in 2001 after a citizen-led initiative to overhaul the twenty-year old system then in place. Since then, it has both been touted as one ... Read more

Damon Motz-Storey of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility talks about the dangers of tear gas exposure

Airs at: Wed, 07/22/2020 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  News In Depth, Evening News
  As demonstrations against police brutality continue across Portland, the Portland Police Bureau and federal agents continue to indiscriminately tear gas large crowds of protesters. KBOO's Nat Moon sits down with Damon Motz-Storey to talk about the dangers of chronic tea... Read more

Remembering Congressmen John Lewis

Airs at: Thu, 07/23/2020 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for: 
Remembering Congressmen John Lewis Congressmen John Lewis, the civil rights icon died at the age of 80 on July 17th 2020. During the 1960s, Lewis was arrested more than 40 times and was beaten nearly to death in Selma, Alabama, during a march for voting rights in 1965. He ... Read more

Art Talk Bus Stop: Episode 6 with Patricia Vázquez Gómez

Airs at: Wed, 07/22/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Art Talk Bus Stop
Patricia Vázquez Gómez Patricia Vázquez Gómez works and lives between the ancient Tenochtitlán and the unceded, occupied, stolen and colonized lands of the Chinook, Clackamas, Multnomah and other Indigenous peoples. Her art practice investigates the social functions of art... Read more

Racial Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
From the archive we hear Clayton Morgareidge's January 2019 commentary White Supremacy and Capitalism: Twin Evils. "Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared the trifecta of racism, militarism and capitalism as the great problem facing humanity. Old Mole Clayton Morgareidge... Read more

Hello. This is Jane. by Judith Arcana

Airs at: Thu, 07/23/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Judith Arcana, author of the new book of stories Hello. This is Jane, published by Oregon’s Left Fork Press. Judith writes poems, stories, essays, and books. Her work includes a biography of Grace Paley – titled Grace Paley’s Life Stories – the po... Read more

Authoritarianism, Police Abuses, and the War On People Who Use Some Drugs

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2020 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
This week on Prison Pipeline: Federal police out of control on the streets of Portland, plus we hear Aqeela Sherrills, director of the Newark Community Street Team, speaking on a panel organized by the Open Society Foundation entitled How Authoritarianism Fuels The War On D... Read more