Activism

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350pdx.org LIVE on KBOO Evening News

Airs at: Wed, 06/08/2016 at 6:15pm - 6:30pm
Produced for Evening News
Grassroots organizers met last night to discuss how to address the transport of crude through the Pacific Northwest. Their meeting comes as a reaction to last Friday's oil train derailment along the Columbia River Gorge. Nick Caleb and Adrianna Voss-Andreae of 350pdx.org ta... Read more

Bark talks LIVE about Nestle on KBOO News

Airs at: Wed, 06/08/2016 at 6:15pm - 6:30pm
Produced for Evening News
Despite a recent county ballot measure aimed at keeping the Nestle bottling company from botting water at Oxbow Spring, the city of Cascade Locks has announced that it will be moving forward with its plans to build the bottling plant. Alex Brown, executive director of Bark,... Read more

Portland Rising Tide LIVE on KBOO News

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2016 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for Evening News
In the wake of the crude oil train derailment along the Columbia River Gorge last Friday, many are calling for grassroots action against crude oil transport. Portland Rising Tide is having a meeting tonight in Portland. They spoke with us LIVE via phone on the KBOO Evening ... Read more

Angelica Pray~A Song for My Brother

Airs at: Mon, 06/13/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
Mindi Griffiths interviews Angelica Pray, a singer/songwriter from Portland, Oregon, whose unique style is described as “musique for self-governed gelfling-gangster hybrids”. She is also a non-violent communications teacher with Oregon Prison Project at Coffee Creek Correct... Read more

Housing Activist Proposes Model Ordinance for Affordable Housing Impact Statements

Airs at: Fri, 06/10/2016 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for Political Perspectives
  We speak with Matthew Charles Cardinale, a Portland-based housing advocate, about an ordinance for Affordable Housing Impact Statements that he has presented to Multnomah County. The model ordinance for Affordable Housing Impact Statements would require the County to pre... Read more

What Is More Important Than Fame? Liberation!

Airs at: Thu, 06/09/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
So many of our Master Teachers are leaving this earth- people who created art which stood for creativity and positivity; people who recognized that organization was a tool to getting free; people who achieved massive fame and made a conscious decision to commit 'class suici... Read more

Tariq Ali on Rage, Rebellion, Organizing Our Power

Airs at: Tue, 06/07/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
  Stage and Studio is off today. Instead we hear a program from the recent 2016 Left Forum Rage, Rebellion, Organizing Our Power was the theme of the 2016 Left Forum held in New York City. Tariq Ali, British Pakistani writer, journalist, and filmmaker addressed the confer... Read more

Patricia Tull, Inhabiting Eden

Airs at: Sun, 06/05/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
Patricia Tull is an ordained Presbyterian minister and professor of Hebrew Bible.  She retired from Louisville Theological Seminary where she is A.B. Rhodes Professor Emerita of Old Testament.  She is the author of Inhabiting Eden: Christians, the Bible, and the Ecological ... Read more

Century Of Lies for June 5 2016

Airs at: Sun, 06/05/2016 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
This week we speak with Shaleen Title, a business owner and activist who's on the board of directors of the Minority Cannabis Business Association, and with Ngaio Bealum, who's a journalist, comedian, activist, and also a member of the board of directors for the Minority Ca... Read more

Domestic Workers Protest, Activists Protest a Racist Textbook, and Cartoonist Lalo Alcala on his Work

Airs at: Fri, 06/03/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for Flashpoints
  Today on Flashpoints: Domestic workers arrested in Sacramento, protesting for safer working conditions, Latino and Chicano activists speak out against a new racist textbook in Texas. And we'll feature an extended interview with celebrated Latino cartoonist and satirist, ... Read more