Willamette Speaks Storytelling Event

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Fri, 09/19/2014 - 11:00am to 11:40am
Willamette Speaks Storytelling Event
We speak with Barbara Quinn and Laura Feldman of Willamette Speaks about The Willamette Speaks Storytelling event on Saturday, September 20th, from 4 to 6pm at McMenamin's Tavern & Pool, at 1716 NW 23rd (Thurman & 23rd). 

Barbara and Laura are both with the Portland Harbor Community Advisory Group.
Laura is also with Occupy St. Johns, and she is a Hanford activist.

The Willamette Speaks Storytelling event is sponsored by the Willamette River superfund community advisory and seeks to gather community wisdom about the river and reconnect residents with the lower Willamette by sharing stories.

The event is free and is a part of the Slabtown Festival in northwest Portland. All are welcome. More information can be found at www.facebook.com/WillametteSpeaks.


If you have a story or know someone who does, contact Barbara at 503-954-3142or WillametteSpeaks@gmail.com.

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ulpanaylaylo's picture

Dear Kathleen Stephenson, AM News & Public Affairs Director, Thank you for yet another necessary qualification of the cultural issues surrounding clean-up of the Willamette River. This is necessary coverage, with sources speaking on behalf of the Native tribal legacies often ignored by corporate-driven news or shunted into Tribal Affairs programming or DIY artsy craftsy stuff at NPR's affiliate and also corporate underwritten OPB. While KBOO provides necessary coverage on this issue, it is not sufficient. I've been trying via direct email during the time when KBOO website tech glitches prevented me from leaving comments on your own programs and the AM & PM news broadcast pages as well as the radio 'zine comments sections to learn why no KBOO staff invites Portland City Council Commissioner Steve Novick on air to explain his skepticism about using EPA Toxic Superfund site monies to continue safety dredging of the industrially toxic river bed. Council member Novick was covered by KBOO as the most progressive candidate at the time he ran for his first city council seat. WILLAMETTE WEEK back in 2012 reported in an article by their News Editor Aaron Mesh that Novick had in fact confided to Portland business leaders with corporate interests in the legacy of industrial toxic pollution of the Willamette (for which these LLC's have apparently not been found to be fiscally responsible for de-toxifying the river) that he is skeptical of allocating any of the EPA Superfund site monies towards dredging the poisoned riverbottom. None of my emails to you or your conscientious co-editor of News & Public Affairs programming at KBOO has responded to my e-mail or phone message queries on the failure of community radio (KBOO) to work symbiotically with what remains of the alternative press (i.e. the Weak Willy and aptly named Po'Land Mercury) in following up on this heavily politically freighted local story with national repercussions on Environmental Affairs. Can you please look at http://www.bluefish.org/hardoubt.htm where WW Aaron Mesh's coverage and quotes pulled from Steve Novick have been publically posted. I was distressed in 2012 and 2013 when the lack of follow-up further solidified Novick's hold on his City Council seat. I don't necessarily oppose him (although I am not resident in Portland and not a direct constituent, however environmental score cards continue to rate Novick highly and none of KBOO's morning chat show hosts I've spoken to (including Paul Rowland, Joann Hardesty, Celeste & Cecil, Per Fagereng, Abe or Joe, Press Watch Theresa nor Laura Loving had ever heard of Novick's realpolitik and realeconomik views. An attendant issue I've tried to explore by participating at KBOO Board Meetings as a concerned listener and at the Public Member meetings at Mt Tabor Presbyterian church space when groups were formed under Sun's leadership to brainstorm more effective listener outreach and diversity growth campaigns is why my 1980's and 90's experiences working as a contributor to the two Bay Area alternative weeklies and also with Pacifica Radio's KPFA and UC Berkeley's KALX and the SF Unified School District's KALW where symbiosis between community radio and alternative press resulted in large packed often sold-out and piped into the street Public Affairs events on a fairly regular basis, my explorations into why that had no corollary here in Portland has not turned up any insights. The weekly papers are advertiser-driven and so have paid staffs providing content and news coverage. KBOO is listener-supported and does not have paid staff providing programming. That seems the most likely antagonistic factor in failure of the two forms of alternative mass media to work symbiotically in the Public Interest. Do you have any alternate views on the lack of symbiosis between KBOO and either of the two weekly papers? Thank you for time and attention and for all that you do. Sincerely, Mitchito Ritter at the Beaverton Bat Cave Lay-Low Studios, Or-Wa

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