May 21, 2020 - 1:00 am
How does being undocumented impact your life? Does it impact where you go shopping for groceries, where you rent your apartment, whether you drive or buy a car or have access to a cell phone? Dulce Garcia, Executive Director of Border Angels, speaks to how being undocumented shaped who she is today.
May 19, 2020 - 8:58 pm
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility are getting involved in advocating for a more progressive state tax structure. The organization is kicking off a campaign this week on the responsible and just recovery from COVID 19.
Read More about Physicians Call for a More Progressive State Tax
May 15, 2020 - 3:02 pm
How do young girls get caught up in prostitution? Noel Gomez, Co-Founder of the Organization for Prostitution Survivors shares her experience, which she says is not uncommon.
May 6, 2020 - 8:45 am
The number of people using the services at Seattle’s University District Food Bank has gone up by twenty percent since March. The food bank’s Executive Director, Joe Gruber speaks with KBCS’s Jesse Callahan about how they’ve adapted to food needs, client needs and the current social distancing measures.
April 30, 2020 - 12:57 pm
“I’m working with at least four people who are above 60 that just got hired when I got hired, because they got laid off…..There are people that have young children at home, people with pregnant spouses…People are making this decision out of necessity and it is just tragic that folks have to risk their lives in order to buy food…”
April 23, 2020 - 10:38 am
Across the street from Cal Anderson Park in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Neighborhood, you might come across a cluster of found jars and bottles arranged with wildflowers and greenery that you would see growing through cracks in the asphalt of any parking lot.
Read More about The Artist Behind Street Flower Arrangements
April 16, 2020 - 11:45 pm
Earlier this month, a group of King County Metro employees wrote a public letter to their General Manager, Rob Gannon with demands to improve safe working conditions in the workplace. These included:
Read More about People Who Work the King County Metro Transit System
April 7, 2020 - 3:30 pm
Our Music Director, Iaan Hughes, reached out to KBCS DJs, local artists, and friends to find out their go-to music choices to get through these tough times.
Check out some of their selections then share what album is getting you through the day. (Share your album pick here)
April 3, 2020 - 10:43 am
Over 60 local volunteer DJs, producers and journalists craft the music and ideas you love on KBCS. Your generous financial support makes it possible.
During normal times, with hundreds of volunteers on deck, KBCS raises one quarter of its annual operating expenses during a ten-day on-air fund drive every spring.
These are extraordinary times.
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