Evening News

    Animal rights activists have launched a 24-hour a day vigil to keep watch over sea   lions around the Bonneville Dam. The sea lions are being trapped and slaughtered as part of a federal and state government plan to control their population. According to Julie Farris o... Read more

       The vigil culminated on Northeast Sandy Boulevard, at the site of the recent killing of unarmed black man Aaron Campbell by Portland police officer Ronald Frashour on January 29th.   Today, there is a protest going on right now in the South Park Blocks to challeng... Read more

This is Paul Cienfuegos' talk on the ascendancy of corporate rights over the rights of of people as citizens, and how this trend can be reversed.  The assertion of corporate over citizen rights came into sharp focus this January with the Supreme Court's "Citizens United"... Read more

Read more

      President Obama plans to sign the health care reform bill into law this Tuesday. After months of back-and-forth and compromise, the reform bill barely resembles the original proposed by key members of the Democratic party last Fall. What it does contain, however, i... Read more

Nancy Matela has been a water-rights activist for several years, now with Food and Water Watch and the AAlliance for Democracy.  Here, she speaks with KBOO's Ethan Scarl in commemoration of World Water Day,  Nancy gives us an overview of the water issues around the globe. Read more

Normal 0 The Portland City Council recently passed a resolution asking the federal government to re-examine studies on health impacts of cell phone towers. Respect P-D-X is a local group that has been working against new cell phone tower construction in residential ne... Read more

  Last night, Portland residents gathered at a school board meeting to protest the Starbase program. The program, which the city has participated in since nineteen-ninety-three, sends students to a military base for a week, to study math and science. Here are recordings fr... Read more

  Read more

Community members in Portland gathered Friday evening for a rally for police reform. The rally followed a number of similar protests and meetings following the January killing of an unarmed black man in northeast Portland. Sheila Warren is one of those who attended Friday’... Read more