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Pump the brakes - PPB's policy change on minor traffic stops should be considered in context: conversation with CNBSeen's Don Merrill

Airs at: Fri, 06/25/2021 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  In June, Portland Police announced that they wouldn't be stopping drivers for minor violations, like broken tail lights or expired tags anymore.  Mayor Ted Wheeler cited the racial disparities in who is stopped by the cops - Black Portlanders are way over represented. Bu... Read more

Colombia Update

Airs at: Wed, 07/07/2021 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies we examine the protests rocking Colombia. Congress’s Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held a hearing on the Colombia protests July First. We hear from three of the witnesses: Elizabeth Dickinson, a Senior Analyst for Colombia with the Internat... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 5th 2021

Airs at: Mon, 07/05/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris host this episode of the Old Mole and includes   Portland Committee on Community Based Policing. Bill Resnick talks to Elliott Young, co-chair of the Portland Committee on Community Based Policing (PCCEP). They Discuss the PCCEP Report to the City Counci... Read more

Police Accountability and Criminal Legal Reform: a Legislative Recap

Airs at: Mon, 07/05/2021 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Karen James speaks with Juan Chavez, attorney with Oregon Justice Resource Center’s Civil Rights Project.  The Oregon legislature has ended its 2021 session and while there were some disappointing defeats, legislation was passed transforming Oregon’s criminal legal system a... Read more

Interview with Ebony Morgan of Cahoots Mobile Street Response

Airs at: Mon, 06/21/2021 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Please join us on Prison Pipeline on Monday, June 21st as we speak with Ebony Morgan, the Program Coordinator of Cahoots Mobile Street Response in Eugene, Oregon.  Cahoots is a Mobile Crisis Response Team that receives calls diverted from emergency services.  Cahoots works ... Read more

The Alliance for Safer Communties

Produced for:  Transpositive PDX
Please join us for Transpositive on KBOO Community Radio on Tuesday, June 1st as we talk with Avi, Danni/y and Elizabeth from the Alliance for Safer Communities, formerly known as the Sexual Minorities Roundtable, one of the longest serving lgbtqia advisory groups in Portla... Read more

George Floyd: A Year Later

Airs at: Thu, 05/27/2021 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
  On May 25, 2020, George Floyd took his last labored breaths, while Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck. What happened that night reverberated around the world. One year later, we reflect on how George Floyd’s death galvanized a racial justice movem... Read more

Advancing Criminal Justice Reform Through a 21st Century Latinx Lens

Airs at: Mon, 05/17/2021 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
LatinoJustice PRLDEF recently held a conference on the theme of Advancing Criminal Justice Reform Through A 21st Century Latinx Lens. One panel entitled Crimmigration was a discussion about the intersection between the criminal & immigration systems and how reform advocates... Read more

HB2002-Transforming Justice 2021

Airs at: Mon, 05/10/2021 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
In April, Partnership for Safety and Justice, Oregon’s leading public safety and criminal justice reform organization, discussed bills currently before the Oregon legislature. We’ll hear excerpts from their webinar “2021’s most transformative policies: the bills to watch an... Read more

Despite "Settlement Agreement" with the DoJ, mentally distressed people continue to be killed by Portland cops

Airs at: Wed, 05/05/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Jason Renaud is a nonprofit consultant with over 35 years of open recovery from alcoholism. He’s a well-known public speaker and writer on recovery from alcoholism and the experience of people with mental illness, and is an active advocate for people who have fallen th... Read more