Activism

News In-Depth: Stolen Angels PDX Billboard Project

Airs at: Tue, 01/02/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

A group of Portlanders is hoping to draw attention to racial injustice and police violence in the Portland area with a bold public project. KBOO reporter Sam Bouman spoke last Friday with several members of Portland Equity in Action (PEA), joined by Alicia Johnson, the m... Read more

Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power

Airs at: Thu, 01/04/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

Today, we share our one-hour special with Newark-based civil rights activist, attorney and author Junius Williams. Williams discusses his book, "Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power." We take a look at the evolution of the civil rights and Black po... Read more

Gospel of Regicide

Airs at: Thu, 01/25/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

"In Gospel of Regicide, Eunsong Kim develops a thrilling method for unwriting lyric even as she reimagines it, creating a socially engaged poetry of and for our time. Anticapitalist, feminist and anti-racist yet critical of non-intersectional understandings of identity a... Read more

Red Clocks

Airs at: Thu, 01/11/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

In Leni Zumas' Red Clocks, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new... Read more

Ahed Tamimi: 16 year old girl imprisoned by Israel

Airs at: Mon, 01/08/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

On this special program produced for KBOO community radio, we look at the case of Ahed Tamimi. Ahed is a 16-year old girl from Nabi Saleh who has filmed the brutality of Israeli soldiers in her village since she was ten. She was abducted from her home Dec. 20th by Israeli ... Read more

The Activist's Toolkit by Rex Burkholder

Airs at: Thu, 01/04/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Dennise M. Kowalczyk sits down with Rex Burkholder to discuss his book, The Activist's ToolKit. Trained as a biologist, Rex Burkholder has worked as a science teacher; he is a founder and policy director of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. Currently, he is leading t... Read more

Fallen Heroes of 2017

Airs at: Tue, 01/02/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Thousands of local social justice organizers, activists and other leaders passed away this year. People doing crucial work in their communities, whose deaths didnt make the headlines. On this edition of Making Contact, as we do every December, well hear about some of the... Read more

January Social Justice Events

Produced for: Portland Resistance Calendar

Updated Sunday January 28. Portland Resistance Calendar is a collection of social justice events in the Portland area (and sometimes, within driving distance). This post is specifically for events that are in the month of January 2018 and later. Links here go to pdxactiv... Read more

Origins of Radical Right-Wing Power: Nancy MacLean

Airs at: Tue, 01/02/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

The history of the anti-government and anti-democratic politics that have transformed the U.S. in recent years is largely obscured from view. The radical right’s agenda includes: suppression of voting rights, privatization of everything from schools to Medicare to Social... Read more