Civil Liberties

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Evening News on 11/19/18

Airs at: Mon, 11/19/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
First Black Woman Elected President of the Portland Rose Festival Teri Bowles-Atherton was elected President of the Portland Rose Festival Foundation at the Annual Board meeting on October 25th. Bowles-Atherton, who currently serves as Director of Physician Development a... Read more

The 'F' Word

Airs at: Mon, 11/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  The F-Word: Ajamu Baraka on the Military-Industrial Complex...The Centennial of Armistice Day...Gerald Horne on Poland's 'White Power' March...And More...  On the Ground is a weekly show from Washington, DC covering social justice activism.  100 years after the end o... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for November 19, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 11/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick and Larry Klineman talk about local and national immigration politics, including the defeat of Measure 105. Larry Bowlden reviews Barbara Kingsolver's latest novel, Unsheltered. Joe shares special audio and music ab... Read more

Press**Watch: Fascism accelerates

Airs at: Thu, 11/15/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Presswatch
The demagogue in Chief is not cornered, but he can hear the hounds baying in distance. Now he prepares his defense.  The best defense is a good offense, so he attacks his enemies--POC, Muslims, Judaism, transgender Americans--and we hear words of disparagement against Ir... Read more

The Wheeler-Outlaw Ordinance Restricting Protest Fails to Get a Vote

Produced for:  Evening News
Mayor Wheeler’s emergency ordinance to restrict Portland protesters failed to get a vote at city hall yesterday afternoon. The Mayor quickly substituted a new ordinance and Council voted to at least hear from the assembled stakeholder. As Mayor Wheeler noted in his openi... Read more

Antifascist Activist Star Stoffer Speaks with KBOO's Joe Meyer about Police Violence.

Produced for:  Evening News
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has introduced a new ordinance to further control street protests. Wheeler is branding his proposal as the ‘Public Safety Ordinance’ and this would give him broad new powers to limit how citizens can express their opinions in public. The ACLU... Read more

Dr Michael Mehaffy on the Demise of the Portland's Neighborhood Associations

Produced for:  Evening News
Remarks to the Eastside Democratic Club Michael Mehaffy * November 6, 2018   Thank you very much for the invitation.  I am an urban researcher, sometimes professor and consultant, focused mostly on city growth and its characteristics – and on the human side of growth, t... Read more

U.S. Interventions in the Middle East: Edward Said

Airs at: Tue, 11/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The current occupant of the White House has said, “The Middle East is a troubled place. There are a lot of bad things happening in that part of the world.” Indeed. But why is it troubled place and why are bad things happening there? There is no mention of Washington’s... Read more

Alessandra Seiter - The Myth of Library Neutrality (Part 2)

Airs at: Mon, 11/05/2018 at 5:30am - 6:00am
Produced for:  Off The Shelf
In this episode, I conclude my conversation with Alessandra Seiter about the myth of library neutrality. We'll talk about her sociohistorically informed model of intellectual freedom and find out how individuals and institutions have challenged the idea of library neutra... Read more

Steve Early on Police Reform

Airs at: Mon, 10/29/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with union activist Steve Early. They consider "police reform" within the criminal justice and class/race systems, as well as the seduction and incorporation of the police and military into anti-left and anti-democratic politics and goals. Portland Cop... Read more