Civil Liberties

Occupy Portland Radio Air Show 8/15

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Occupy Portland Radio Air Broadcast 06/20

Airs at: Wed, 06/20/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Occupy Portland Radio

Interdependence Day at Pioneer Courthouse Square Food & Garden Team Police Piece: Joint Terrorism Task Force, ACLU, Evolutionary Psychiatrist Portland Occupy vs. Park Rangers Softball Game with a Shocking Result Music from the Sexy Flail Family String Band Read more

Two Court Cases Help Define Portland's Camping Ban

Airs at: Fri, 08/24/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

Normal 0 Portland city council paid out forty thousand dollars earlier this week to settle a class action lawsuit that claimed the camping ban was unconstitutional. Also this week, Vigil to end Homelessness instigator Kernel Moses was exonerated of ‘interfering... Read more

Bill Smaldone: History of Social Democratic Party - Part 1

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick and Bill Smaldone start a two-part conversion about the German Social Democratic party in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Smaldone lays out the historical context of the consolidating and industrializing German state, then explains how the Social Democrats emer... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour August 20th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

On Today's Old Mole, Frann Michel hosts, and we hear about how German social democrats built a parallel society for working people, a movie review of a Bob Marley biopic, and from a worker at the Red and Black cafe about their cooperatively owned and collectively manage... Read more

Chris Toensing on the Arab Spring Part 2

Airs at: Mon, 08/13/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick concludes his interview with Chris Toensing about the Arab Spring and its implications for the West. You can find Part One here. In this audio, they briefly review their earlier conversation, and they discuss the destabilizing effects of competition for oil re... Read more

New Ads on San Francisco MUNI Buses Criticized as Islamophobic

Airs at: Thu, 08/16/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

Normal 0 In San Francisco, new ads on several MUNI buses, funded by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, read: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel, defeat Jihad." The city has heard a public outcry to th... Read more

Oregon Bar Bans Transgender Customers

Airs at: Wed, 08/15/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

Normal 0 The Oregon Board of Labor is currently investigating a North Portland bar after the owner asked two trans women to stop coming. According to Cassandra Lynn, she and her friends have been visiting the bar on Friday nights for two years. Lynn received a vo... Read more

Interviews with Gender/Trans Resources and Local Fun House

Airs at: Tue, 08/14/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Out Loud

On tonights show Out Loud's newest member and host Natalie Marie so-hosting with Kyle in his farewell segment spoke with Trenton, the owner and operator of the local perfomance space and bar the Funhouse Lounge! Trenton talked about a number of the fun activities going o... Read more

Oregon's Spy Center: The Urban Area Fusion Center

Airs at: Thu, 08/09/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: A Deeper Look

Fusion Centers, Have you heard of them? No-o-o not a new type of food cart or a place to blend teas. But Oregon does have 2 of them. They are Secret Surveillance Centers started by the Department of Homeland Security, "Fusing" intelligence gathered by local state and fe... Read more