Sixty five years ago, the Columbia River flooded into the largest public housing project in the U-S at the time, leaving 18,500 people homeless, a large number of whom were black.  The event changed race relations in Portland forever.

On Friday May 24th, from 8 am to noon, KBOO presented a special program on the Vanport flood and racism in Portland, sixty five years later.

There were plenty of guest and a few professors from Portland State University interviewed for the Vanport 65th anniversary on KBOO. This interview is with KBOO volunteer Sekoynia Wright...interview Michael McGregor, a English professor at Portland State University:

Ralph Poynter

 has been by her side for all these years of courage in the face of this empire's justice juggernaut armed with a weapons-grade National Security apparatus that listens only to the echo of its own footsteps along the empty corridors lit by burning spooks...

This is a discussion with local activists about the history of race relations in Oregon.

Tom Becker hosts and shares a reading on exporting fundamentalism; also we hear Gerald Markowitz with Bill Resnick on Biohazards; Iven Hale on the horror of the US incarceration system; and the movie moles Jan and Joe on The Great Gatsby.

Resnick and Markowitz on Untested Chemicals in the Environment

Iven Hale on Jails, Prisons, and the horror of incarceration