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Community Forum on Outcomes of Police-DoJ Settlement

Airs at: Thu, 06/15/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for Evening News
Last night, June 14, 2017, community stakeholders met at Maranatha Church in NE Portland for a forum on the Outcomes Report issued by the Compliance Officer/Community Liaison (COCL). The report, available here, is the third of its kind since a settlement was reached between... Read more

White Nationalists and their Agenda Infiltrate the Mainstream

Airs at: Fri, 06/16/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Positively Revolting
  Guest host Linda Olson-Osterlund welcomes the Southern Poverty Law Center's Ryan Lenz to continue the conversation on the rise in hate crimes across the nation. Ryan Lenz is the Senior Writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project and editor of its H... Read more

Interrupting Police as First Responders in a Mental Health Crisis / The Fight to Abolish Prison Slavery

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
Join co-host Emma Lugo with guests Esther and Buckley of Critical Resistance PDX about strategies to interrupt the police as first responders to people experiencing mental health crisis.  Critical Resistance Portland (CR-PDX) is developing a campaign to interrupt the use of... Read more

Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine

Airs at: Wed, 06/14/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for Political Perspectives
  Trump's Rationale for Withdrawing the US from Paris Climate Accord Based on Lies; Trump Moves to Re-impose Drug-War era Harsh Sentences in Federal Drug Cases and Use of Private Prisons; California Senate Takes First Step to Move the State to Single-Payer Universal Health... Read more

Reporting on the Right Wing

Airs at: Mon, 06/12/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Laurie Mercier talks to Jason Wilson, who writes for the Guardian, Alternet, Medium, and other publications, about the alt right and right-wing movements. They discuss recent alt right protests in Portland and the Northwest, and how right-wing movements push politics to ... Read more

Violent Inequality

Airs at: Mon, 06/12/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
    Clayton Morgareidge asks why we are living in a society that requires so much violence to maintain, and traces it to inequality, and in particular, the inequality between those who own most of the world and those who must work, if they can, for those owners.      Read more

Hate Rising

Airs at: Fri, 06/09/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Positively Revolting
  Oregon is leading the nation in reported hate crimes and racist incidents.  This past Friday a Southwest Washington man was pistol whipped by a road raging truck driver and told to leave the country.   -from KATU: "Armando, who didn't want to reveal his last name, said ... Read more

Southwest of Salem

Airs at: Mon, 06/12/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
In 1994, four women in San Antonio, Texas, were arrested and charged with heinous crimes. The women -- working class Latina lesbians -- were accused of raping two young girls, They were tried, convicted in 1997, and sentenced to decades in state prison. Just one problem: T... Read more

Remembering Stonewall

Airs at: Mon, 06/12/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Radiozine
  Each June we rebroadcast the 1989 radio documentary "Remembering Stonewall," by David Isay. This documentary, broadcast on the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, is the first documentary -- in any medium -- about the riots. Hearing the voices of participants, from ... Read more

Change the World by Ending Human Trafficking

Airs at: Mon, 06/05/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
Justin Dillon is a former musician turned filmmaker and social entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Made in A Free World, a platform that brings together consumers, organizations, and businesses to dismantle the 150 billion dollar business of human trafficking. His la... Read more