Last night, a contentious  public meeting was held to discuss the renaming of Interstate Avenue to Cesar Chavez Avenue.

KBOO’s Andy Seaton was at that meeting, and brings us this report:

A KBOO Radio Special examining marijuana today, who can use it, who shouldn't, and what the government's doing about it. Part 2 features Dr. Stanley Zammit, a reasearcher at Cardiff University and the University of Bristol, expert on schizophrenia and marijuana.

The Hammerskin Nation, a neo-Nazi skinhead organization, aims to attract hundreds of hardcore racists to the group's twentieth-anniversary celebration, to be held from today until Sunday somewhere in the greater Portland area. The group has not publicized the location of the event.

The Hammerskins, began life in 1987 as the Confederate Hammerskins.  The group was founded in Dallas, TX gang specializing in violence against Jewish people and people of color, sexual minorities, as well as activists.

The Hammerskin Nation--a masthead for Hammerskin racist skinhead crews--has since gone national, and later international, with their bigoted agenda.

The Jena Six refers to a group of six black teenagers who were charged with the beating of a white teenager at Jena High School in Jena, Louisiana on December 4, 2006 , although it is believed that the incident began on September first, 2006 when 3 nooses were found hanging from a tree at Jena High School . We use interviews from Democracy Now to describe the incident, and talk to Kevin Fuller, Founder and Executive Director of the Bridge Builders, and Alpha Tessema, junior, Jesuit High School, a member of the Prospective Gents, who sponsored a Jena Six Fundraiser and Vigil on September 20^th in Portland.