Civil Liberties

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Sex4Sale: Episode 2, Portland's Sex Industry

Airs at: Thu, 11/09/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This is the second episode of Sex4Sale, a 10-part series about the business of sex in Portland, OR--what we know, what we don't know, and what we think we know. In this episode, we'll take a look at the overall sex industry in Portland and how citizens--involved or not--vie... Read more

Hillsboro "Dreamers" Adjust to Life after DACA

Airs at: Thu, 11/09/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
When President Trump rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, it threw the futures of 800,000 young people in the US into uncertainty. The program was instituted in 2012 by then-President Barack Obama by executive order. It was based on provisi... Read more

Losing Our Religion, 9/11 Truth, and the Political Jesus

Airs at: Fri, 11/10/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Beloved Community
  Leslea Mair is the president and CEO of Zoot Pictures out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. She talks about her latest film,  Losing Our Religion, a feature length documentary about preachers who are not believers, and what atheists do when they miss church. Allowed access to the 6... Read more

David Barsamian on KBOO!

Airs at: Fri, 11/10/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
  Host of Alternative Radio David Barsamian returns to KBOO to discuss his upcoming appearance at the Clinton Street Theater.  He'll join host Linda Olson-Osterlund to discuss the ways that Oregonians have shown resistance in the age of Trump.  Call in to join the conversa... Read more

Native Voices From the Edge

Airs at: Thu, 11/09/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Cary Watters and Amory Zschach return to host Voices From the Edge and welcome community activists Cameron Whitten and Christine Bruno and continue the discussion on Native American Heritage Month. For almost one hundred years, Americans both Indian and non-Indian have u... Read more

Sex4Sale: Episode 1, Introduction

Airs at: Tue, 11/07/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This is the first episode of Sex4Sale, a 10-part series about the business of sex in Portland, OR--what we know, what we don't know, and what we think we know. In this episode, we'll take an overhead view of the project--future episodes will zoom in on more specific topics.... Read more

Occupation or Assembly?: PSU Graduate Project Examines Coverage of Protest Events

Airs at: Mon, 11/06/2017 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Andrew Butz is a Portland State University graduate student in Sociology who is researching his dissertation on a timely subject—the way the media treats protest events. He is comparing newspaper coverage of two signal events in recent American political life: Occupy Wall S... Read more

Poor People's Campaign REBORN

Airs at: Wed, 11/08/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Nearly half a century ago, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King called for a poor peoples campaign. He was assassinated before he was able to full implement it.  In May 2017, four months after the inauguration of Trump, the Reverend Dr. William Barber introduced the new ... Read more

Holding District Attorneys Accountable

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
District attorneys are the most powerful elected players in the criminal justice system, yet most people don’t know who they are or what they do.  Karen James interviews David Rogers, Executive Director, ACLU of Oregon and Daniel Lewkow, manager of THEY REPORT TO YOU, ACLU’... Read more

In Defense of Civil Liberties: Glenn Greenwald

Airs at: Tue, 11/07/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The definition of civil liberties is straightforward. They are rights guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution allowing individuals to be free to speak, think, assemble, organize, worship, or petition without government or even private interference or restra... Read more