Evening News

0105 WA Brian Baird on Palestine   A tough race is heating up in Washington for the seat of Congressman Brian Baird.After Baird announced that he would not seek re-election this year, six candidates quickly put their names in the running. KBOO spoke with Brian Baird tod... Read more

A Mexican judge has once again ordered the release of Oaxacan human rights activist Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno.Moreno was charged with the murder of Indymedia journalist Brad Will in 2006, despite the fact that there was no evidence against him.This is a clip of his wif... Read more

Israeli authorities have admitted that Israeli government pathologists illegally harvested organs from both Palestinians and Israelis, without the permission of their families.   KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg has more:  Read more

  Activists across the Pacific Northwest have been organizing for months to oppose the Winter Olympics scheduled for this February in Vancouver Canada. The slogan of the anti-Olympics campaign is ‘No Olympics on stolen native land’. Nat Marshik of the Olympic Resistance... Read more

A humanitarian aid convoy on its way to the Gaza Strip has been re-routed through Syria after it was turned away at the Gulf of Aqaba.The ‘Viva Palestina’ convoy consists of 250 vehicles including trucks, ambulances and buses filled with medical and school supplies for t... Read more

Since the attempted terrorist attack on a northwest airlines plane on christmas day there has been discussion over the security measures needed to protect human lives.KBOO’s David Nochumson spoke with Mike German, policy counsel to the american civil liberties’ union was... Read more

Protesters planning to cross into the Gaza Strip in a March to Free Gaza continue to be held up in Egypt. Thirteen hundred Marchers from over forty countries have been stopped in Cairo and prevented from entering the Gaza Strip.While in Cairo, they have protested at Emba... Read more

Like other states across the country, Oregon is struggling with the question of how to fund higher education in a time of massive budget cuts.  Portland State University, PSU, has already increased class sizes, and made cuts to disabled student programs and teacher pay. ... Read more

Beaverton resident Philip Fabre calls himself an ‘open source human’. He says that after being unjustly fired from a truck driving job, he has been driven to depression and paranoia.  Fabre now claims that he is guilty of treason because he no longer trusts his government. Read more

The mayor of Silverton, Stu Rasmussen (rassm-YOU-son), has launched an initiative to increase accountability for state legislators.He calls the campaign the “Open Oregon Legislature”, and is currently gathering signatures to get the initiative on the ballot.Rasmussen spo... Read more