Civil Rights/Human Rights

Art Talk Bus Stop: Episode 5 with Sarah Farahat

Airs at: Wed, 06/24/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30pm

Produced for: Art Talk Bus Stop

Art Talk Bus Stop is a serial 30-minute podcast produced by a group of students and educators based out of Reynolds High School in Troutdale, OR, just outside of Portland. The students are enrolled in the Reynolds Gallery of Contemporary Art (RoCA), where they learn profess... Read more

Buscando America on 06/23/20

Airs at: Tue, 06/23/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Produced for: Buscando America

Cuarta semana de demostraciones en EEUU, estuvimos en las instalaciones del ICE en Portland en una protesta para unificar luchas. Avances históricos en la suprema corte para la comunidad LGBTQ ; hablamos con Umi Vera de Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement. Más buenas... Read more

LGBTQ Victory at the Supreme Court: Interview with Lori Buckwalter

Airs at: Tue, 06/23/2020 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Transpositive PDX

Please join us for Transpositive on Tuesday, June 23rd at 6pm on KBOO. This week we will have an intimate conversation with Lori Buckwalter. On June 15th the US Supreme Court established that Title 7 protections on the basis of sex apply to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Tran... Read more

End of Policing

Airs at: Mon, 06/22/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

From the Archive, Bill Resnick talks with Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing, about how popular police reforms fail to address the problems of--let alone the reasons for--over-policing. Alex Vitale spoke in Portland Last October 2019. For more see Vitale’s May 31 a... Read more

Uprising

Airs at: Mon, 06/22/2020 at 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken talks with Lauren Regan, Attorney and Executive Director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center in Eugene. Regan reflects on the recent Black Lives Matter protests and police responses, as well as tactics of resistance in the movement against policing. Photo cou... Read more

Trump and the Military

Airs at: Mon, 06/22/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick interviews Garett Reppenhagen, National Director of Veterans for Peace. They discuss how to stop Trump's efforts to stay in power and do it in part by enlisting the force of the U.S Military to suppress its own citizens. Listen to Pat Scanlon sing about Extremi... Read more

Dockworkers strike against racism

Airs at: Mon, 06/22/2020 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm

Produced for: Labor Radio

David Porter, a seasoned dockworker in Portland, a union leader and member of the African American Longshore Coalition, talks with host Jamie Partridge about his union's historic Juneteenth strike against police brutality and systemic racism. Read more

Memorial Day live stream (audio only) - Ep 69

Airs at: Fri, 06/19/2020 at 6:30am - Fri, 06/26/2020 at 12:00am

Produced for: Fortress On A Hill

Memorial Day has become a holiday that is farcical and cheap; while it may honor deceased veterans in a NFL playoff game sort of way, what does all the fanfare and bright lights mean? How do discounts at Home Depot or free meals at Applebee’s honor veterans? If our nation... Read more

A Two Hour Special with National Book Award winning poet Nikky Finney

Airs at: Thu, 06/18/2020 at 10:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life. National Book Award winner Nikky Finney’s fifth collection contains lighthouse poems, narrative hotbeds, and tre... Read more

Buscando America on 06/16/20

Airs at: Tue, 06/16/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Produced for: Buscando America

En la primera sesión de Corazón del Sur la rapera Nina Uma nos comparte la cultura de Bolivia frente al intento por cerrar el Ministerio de Cultura en este territorio andino. Xochitl Garnica denuncia como fue agredida por un grupo de patriotas en el capitolio de Salem.... Read more