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Shaping a Future: Life After Prison - Part 2

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On Sunday, October 29th 2017 nine individuals told their stories in a performance titled: Shaping a Future: Life After Prison. The performance was a culmination of  writing workshops sponsored by the Regional Arts and Culture Council. The project conceived of and organized ... Read more

Shaping a Future: Life After Prison - Part 1

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On Sunday, October 29th 2017 nine individuals told their stories in a performance titled: Shaping a Future: Life After Prison. The performance was a culmination of  writing workshops sponsored by the Regional Arts and Culture Council. The project conceived of and organized ... Read more

November 24 Portland Resistance Calendar

Airs at: Fri, 11/24/2017 at 5:00pm - Fri, 12/01/2017 at 5:00pm
Updated Sunday, November 26.  Want more info? Click on the links for the details. Want to print out the list? There's a printable PDF. Wanna see into the future? Check out kboo.fm/resist/nov upcoming events. Thanks so very much for reading, and thank you, KBOO members &... Read more

Nobuko Miyamoto on creating Asian American resistance music

Airs at: Fri, 11/24/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
This month's theme is about resistance and we're talking to artist and activist A'misa Chiu and musician and member of Yellow Pearl, Nobuko Miyamoto about her music and activism! Yellow Pearl was the first band to use the term "Asian American" to describe their identity and... Read more

New Seasons Workers unite

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
After their November 1st delivery of a letter to CEO Wendy Collie, signed by hundreds of workers from eighteen (18) stores, New Seasons workers are still waiting for a reponse to their demand for collective bargaining.  New Season Workers United members join Labor Radio to ... Read more

Dennis Banks & Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  Dennis Banks left on his final Journey Dennis Banks is remembered for having organized, with AIM in a coalition of 8 indigenous nations, the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties. They converged on Washington, DC, with 500 followers to protest Indian living conditions and lost t... Read more

First Voices Radio: Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
  In the first half-hour of this special repeat edition of First Voices Radio, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Corine Fairbanks. Corine, who is Oglala Lakota, is Director for the American Indian Movement, Southern California. She has been working in the social justice ... Read more

Indigenous Vision for the New Millennium: Winona LaDuke

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  In her 1998 Mario Savio Free Speech lecture, "Indigenous Vision for the New Millennium," LaDuke explores the conflict between indigenous people who live on the land and urbanized industrial society - that is, cyclical versus linear ideas of the world, and their results. ... Read more

#NotYourMascot

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Voices From The Edge presents Jacqueline Keeler's Not Your Disappearing Indian...a new podcast about all the ways Native people are not going away and how America's got us all wrong.  On this episode you'll hear the sounds from a protest of the NFL during a game between ... Read more

Deportations, Ice raids, DACA & Oregon's Drivers Licencing

Airs at: Wed, 11/22/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Linda Olson-Osterlund welcomes Andrea Williams, the Executive Director of Causa....Oregon's Immigrant Rights Organization founded in 1995 by farmworkers, Latinos, immigrants, and allies in order to defeat ballot measures that would have negatively impacted the lives of L... Read more