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Reawakening Lushootseed Language: Language Warriors

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20221104 Lois Landgrebe Lushootseed Language Warriors Lushootseed is the language spoken by Coast Salish tribes in the greater Seattle region. In 1819, Congress passed the Civilization Fund Act to assimilate indigenous youth to western culture. The policy authorized forcible separation of indigenous children from their families to be sent to boarding

Christian Rhetoric in Politics: Dr. Obery Hendricks

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20221104 Dr. Hendricks A New York Times article from April titled “The Growing Religious Fervor in the American Right” is about the increase in Christian prayer, music and rituals incorporated into right-wing conservative rallies. The challengers of laws to protect abortion and LGBTQ communities often put forth particular beliefs they

Expulsion of Tacoma’s Chinese Residents in 1885

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20221031 Chinese Reconciliation And Walk Against Racism On Saturday, Hundreds of people walked from Tacoma’s Tollefson Plaza to the Chinese Reconciliation Park for the annual Walk for Reconciliation Against Racism. The event was to observe the day about 200 Chinese residents in the Tacoma area were forcibly removed in 1885. KBCS’s

KUOW workers picket for higher wages

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20221025 KUOW Staff Picket For Higher Wages Public radio personalities, reporters and producers are putting up a fight for better pay. KBCS’s Yuko Kodama reports from Seattle’s University District.

Seattle’s CID and their reason to fight the homeless shelter expansion

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20221019 CIDs Challenges With Public Safety Last week, King County scrapped their plans for a homeless shelter expansion on the edge of Seattle’s Chinatown International District (CID). Listen to why elders from the CID came out in numbers to protest another homeless shelter in this neighborhood and what they demand now.

Taking the Racism Out of Teaching English Writing

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20221012 Asao Inoue And Tish Lopez Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecology KBCS highlights a progressive approach to teaching college writing classes. A method of teaching college level writing titled Anti-racist Writing Assessment Ecology was adopted by 62 faculty at 30 out of the 34 Washington community college and technical colleges (at

Bellevue protest to support Iranian Women

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20220926 Protest In Solidarity With Women In Iran Hundreds gathered in Bellevue over the weekend to protest in solidarity with women in Iran. KBCS was there and gathered voices and sounds from the event.

Repatriation of Mexican Americans in the 1930’s

Imagine being a US Citizen and being deported to a country where you don’t know anyone. This happened in the 1930’s here in America.

Insurrection: A Photo Compilation from Jan 6, 2021

The House Select January 6th committee completed their eighth hearing this month. More hearings and an initial report is in the works for September, as the group continues to investigate the event. Nate Gowdy is a local documentary photographer whose work has graced the cover of Time magazine. He’s been photographing the Trump campaigns and

Feminist Women’s Health

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20220624 Marcy Bloom Former ED Of Aradia Clinic Marcy Bloom is the former Executive Director of Aradia Women’s Health Center, a feminist, women’s clinic which operated in Seattle from 1972 until 2007. According to the Seattle Times, over 70,000 abortions had been performed at Aradia Women’s Health Center during its

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