Civil Rights/Human Rights

Voting Rights Beyond the Liberal Agenda

Airs at: Mon, 01/08/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge reads from Meagan Day's article in Jacobin on "Moving Beyond the Liberal Voting Rights Agenda," arguing that when it comes to voting rights, the Democratic Party is primarily interested in electoral reforms that aid its central project of consoli... Read more

Jordan, Palestine, Israel & the U.S.: Rami Barhoush

Airs at: Tue, 01/09/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Jordan’s borders were drawn by British imperial cartographers after WW1. It was then called Trans-Jordan and sparsely populated. Today, it has a large Palestinian population, many of them refugees from the naqba, catastrophe, of 1948 and the 1967 war. In recent years ... Read more

Court Confirms Constitutionality of Portland Fossil Fuel Zoning Rules

Airs at: Fri, 01/05/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm

Produced for: Evening News

On January 4th, the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed, in large part, a Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) decision that undermined Portland’s landmark fossil fuel terminal zoning amendments, passed unanimously by the city council in December 2016. The court ruled that Por... Read more

U.S. - Saudi Coalition: Bringing Peace or War?

Airs at: Fri, 01/12/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Beloved Community

On the next Beloved Community, John Shuck will speak live with Catherine Shakdam, Scott Bennett, and Aisha Jumaan. They will be three of the headliners at a conference taking place at Portland State University on February 3rd, entitled, "U.S. - Saudi Coalition: Bringing... Read more

Decriminalizing Addiction

Airs at: Mon, 01/08/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

On tonight's edition of Prison Pipeline, host Doug McVay speaks with Rick Lines, executive director of Harm Reduction International, about the need to decriminalize drug use and addiction in order to better deal with problematic drug use, to prevent the transmission of d... Read more

News In-Depth: Stolen Angels PDX Billboard Project

Airs at: Tue, 01/02/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

A group of Portlanders is hoping to draw attention to racial injustice and police violence in the Portland area with a bold public project. KBOO reporter Sam Bouman spoke last Friday with several members of Portland Equity in Action (PEA), joined by Alicia Johnson, the... Read more

The Akee Tree by Stephen Hanks

Airs at: Thu, 01/04/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

In this previously aired episode of Black Book Talk the hosts interview Stephen Hanks, author of The Akee Tree. What would compel an African-American man to spend ten years of his life tracing his family tree from the Pacific Northwest back to slavery times in Missi... Read more

Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power

Airs at: Thu, 01/04/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

Today, we share our one-hour special with Newark-based civil rights activist, attorney and author Junius Williams. Williams discusses his book, "Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power." We take a look at the evolution of the civil rights and Black... Read more

Gospel of Regicide

Airs at: Thu, 01/25/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

"In Gospel of Regicide, Eunsong Kim develops a thrilling method for unwriting lyric even as she reimagines it, creating a socially engaged poetry of and for our time. Anticapitalist, feminist and anti-racist yet critical of non-intersectional understandings of identit... Read more

Red Clocks

Airs at: Thu, 01/11/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

In Leni Zumas' Red Clocks, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these ... Read more