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Advocacy Groups Demand Feds Investigate Muslim Teen's Death

Airs at: Tue, 03/07/2017 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
The unsolved death of Muslim teenager Ben Keita in Lake Stevens, Washington, has advocacy groups demanding a full federal investigation. KBOO reporter Sam Bouman spoke to Arsalan Bukhari, executive director of the Seattle office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.... Read more

Detainees: Mentally Ill & Undocumented Immigrants

Airs at: Mon, 03/13/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Disability Rights Oregon recently published a new report that finds individuals with mental illness held at Multnomah County Detention Center experience significant physical and mental harm. The report recommends steps that the jail should take to better meet the needs of p... Read more

Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Airs at: Sun, 03/05/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week we speak with Tyler Williams from Students for Sensible Drug Policy about drug policy reform, activism, and SSDP's upcoming international conference in Portland, Oregon March 24-26. Students for Sensible Drug Policy   Read more

LEADing the Way

Airs at: Mon, 03/06/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On Monday, Feb. 27, a coalition of Multnomah County and Portland officials and social service agencies announced that local law enforcement would begin a Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program (LEAD). LEAD was first developed in King County, Seattle, WA in 2011. LEAD is... Read more

Demand Justice for Quanice Hayes with Don't Shoot PDX

Airs at: Tue, 02/28/2017 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Don't Shoot PDX will be at Wednesday's city council meeting to demand justice for Quanice Hayes, the teenager who was killed by Portland Police on February 9. Organizer Teressa Raiford spoke with KBOO News to talk about Wednesday's action as well as the violent police respo... Read more

Cleveland 4 & Political Incarcerations in the Age of "trumpism"

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
The Cleveland 4 & Political Incarcerations in the Age of "trumpism" Adam Carpinelli interviews attorney Amanda Schemkes about the case of the Cleveland Four, Occupy activists arrested in 2012, accused of plotting to blow up a bridge.  The plot, however, was crafted by the F... Read more

"Quanice Hayes.....Say his name!"

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  On Thursday February 9th police shot and killed 17 year old Quanice Hayes.  They claim he matched the description of a suspect in an armed robbery that occurred hours before.  Police also say that they recovered a replica hand gun near Quanice.  Other details have been w... Read more

Justice for Quanice Hayes with the Portland Student Action Network

Airs at: Tue, 02/14/2017 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
The Portland Student Action Network, a group of activists from the greater Portland area's high schools,  is holding a rally this Thursday in honor of Quanice Hayes, a 17-year-old who recently died at the hands of the Portland Police. The rally will bring high school studen... Read more

Angela Davis.....Beginnings: Movements of Possibility

Airs at: Tue, 02/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  In times of crisis one can simultaneously see danger and opportunity. Today there is nostalgia for an imagined past and a desire to recreate it. It’s a seductive tale. Things were better then. The country was unchallenged in the world. Jobs were plentiful. Minorities, wo... Read more

White Supremacy Watch

Airs at: Fri, 02/10/2017 at 7:30pm - 8:00pm
KBOO reporter Canaan Schlesinger assembles reports from activists working to expose rampant and systematic targetting of people of color within the the Oregon Department of Corrections. Strategic Threat Management (STM): military defense strategy, or jargon for racial oppre... Read more