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...
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Desiree Hellegers talks with Cecelia Towner of Black Lives Matter Clark
County about #MeToo, racism, and the need for greater resources for women of
color in Vancouver fleeing intimate partner violence.
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The murder of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 is the most
discussed, scrutinized and written about assassination in history. The
official narrative is that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in Dallas and that
there was "no evidence of any conspiracy, domestic ...
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Cecil and Celeste welcome literary critic,
teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates
Jr to KBOO. Gates currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University
Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African
American Rese...
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This meaty episode digs into the modern escalation of the War on Drugs
through a rhetorical analysis of the 1989 National Drug Control Strategy, a
review of the concrete policing and sentencing policies which lead to the
exponential rise in prison populations, and a ground-...
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On this edition of Century of Lies, we discuss stigma, language, mental
health, harm reduction, and drug policy reform with Sarah Merrigan, one of
the hosts of the This Week In Drugs podcast.
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This week is National Apprenticeship Week, established by President Obama in
2015. Today, November 16, is Women in Apprenticeship Day in Oregon as
declared by Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler.
In Portland, one of the primary organizations working wi...
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Mathew Hoh is a member of the advisory board of Expose Facts, Veterans
For Peace and world Beyond War. In 2009 he resigned his postion with the Stae
Department in Afghanistan in protest of the escalation of the Afghan War by
the Obama Administration. He priviously has be...
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On Friday Nov 17th from 8pm-10PM ,”From the Grassroots--where we agitate
for social change with music and commentary will honor Bofill ;a Latina
songstress who crossed over from jazz to R&B. She had such a rich voice that
captivated our communities and gave us strength duri...
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