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Swing'n'Country

Airs at: Sat, 07/01/2017 at 6:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Swing 'n' Country
Independence Day is right around the corner and Molly's dug out all her favorite freedom songs!  Tune in bright and early Saturday morning and let the country music get you in the mood to wrangle with all the complexity of the 241st birthday of the U.S.A.  Highlights includ... Read more

Portland Mayor and Police Chief are Receiving disapproval After Sundays Rallies

Airs at: Fri, 06/09/2017 at 1:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Police chief Mike Marshman are facing criticism on the way they handled Sundays Rallies in Downtown Portland.  Questions are being raised if they were antagonistic and unnecessarily violent. Read more

On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital

Airs at: Fri, 06/30/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  This packed show is all about resisting the normalization of war abroad and at home, resisting the idea that militarism, police terror and hate crimes will accepted as part of a new hyper reality. We hear voices from among the hundreds that gathered in DC for a vigil for... Read more

Quanice Hayes' grandmother speaks with KBOO

Airs at: Wed, 04/12/2017 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Quanice Hayes was fatally shot by police officer Andrew Hurst in February with an AR 15 rifle. Quanice Hayes’s family along with Don’t Shoot Portland and other community organizations are demanding the case be put before a federal court. KBOO’s Theresa Mitchell spoke with ... Read more

Groups Call Out Against New DOJ Budget

Airs at: Mon, 06/12/2017 at 2:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
President and CEO Vanita Gupta of The Leadership Conference on Leadership and Human Rights is on the phone with civil rights and criminal justice reform experts who are sounding the alarm on the Trump Administration's DOJ budget request that is perpetuating the mass crimina... Read more

Israel and Mistreatment of Palestinians

Airs at: Tue, 06/20/2017 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  Mya  Guarnieri  jaradat is a journalist whose pioneering reporting pioneering reporting has appeared in The Nation and The Guardian. She spent nearly a decade covering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.   Her book The Unchosen, The Lives of Israel’s New Ot... Read more

In-Depth look at US Policy in Colombia: Part Two

Airs at: Thu, 06/22/2017 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Independent journalist Nico Bedoya has been in Colombia covering developments related to the guerillas of FARC, who have been fighting the Colombian government since the 1950s. He followed the rebellion through its violent stages, towards the U-N peace deal, and into the c... Read more

The Historic Black Williams Project

Airs at: Tue, 06/27/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
  KBOO's Eric Bartels speaks to Kayin Talton Davis...the project manager of The Black Williams Project. N Williams/Albina was Portland’s largest African American community. The goal of the Black Williams Project is to highlight this history, through a multimedia public ar... Read more

CRCI Reading Group Interviews Ibram X. Kendi

Airs at: Mon, 07/10/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On June 21st, the Liberation Literacy reading group at Columbia River Correctional Institution (CRCI) interviewed National Book Award winner and historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi about his book Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Liber... Read more

#SupportDontPunish

Airs at: Sun, 06/25/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week we remember a good friend, the drug policy reformer and marijuana activist Mickey Martin, and present an interview with him from 2013. Plus, June 26th is the Global Day of Action for Drug Policy Reform, so we speak with Fergal Eccles of Students for Sensible Drug ... Read more