Produced by:
KBOO
Program::
Air date:
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Police Conduct, Liberating Unused Housing, Democracy & Greece, Portland Renters Assembly
Joe Clement hosts and we hear:
- Bill Resnick talks with Dan Handelman of Portland CopWatch. They consider two aspects of police conduct -- their use of violence and shooting, and their militarization -- and the extent to which the police have responded to criticism by community reform groups as well as local and Federal investigations of their conduct.
- Desiree Hellegers interviews two Seattle housing justice activist about their work in the late 1980s breaking into and liberating abandoned or unused buildings for people to live in.
- Recently back from the "Democracy Rising" conference in Athens, Frann Michel and Hyung Nam discuss democracy and its contradictions in Greece.
- Tom Becker reads an article from the Portland Tribune about the Portland Renters Assembly and the radical vision/values of some of its organizers.
- KBOO
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