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Unmute the Commute: Super Commuters

March 25, 2019 - 9:50 pm

A growing number of people in Western Washington are commuting for more than an hour and a half to work. We follow one of these journeys on today’s Unmute the Commute.

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women 2 – Prayer Skirt Sewing Circle

March 25, 2019 - 1:52 pm

Indigenous women have taken the lead in increasing awareness of the high numbers of their sisters who go missing and die to violence. KBCS’s Yuko Kodama takes you to a red skirt sewing circle, a community building event which builds support for, honors, and assists in the healing of the community mourning their missing and

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women 1 – What’s Needed

March 25, 2019 - 12:36 pm

Roxanne White, of the Yakama, Nez Perce, Nooksack and Gros Ventre tribes, is an activist who advocates for the families of missing and murdered women (MMIW). KBCS’s Yuko Kodama spoke with White about the MMIW movement at an indigenous prayer skirt sewing circle organized as a community building event in honor of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

Unmute the Commute: Biker, Lawyer… Bike Lawyer

March 18, 2019 - 2:08 pm

Over the last four years, deaths of pedestrians and bicyclists in Washington State have doubled. This comes at a time when the state wants to get to zero traffic fatalities by the year 2030. So, how do we get there? We talk to Seattle bike lawyer Bob Anderton to hear one proposal. Produced by Jennie

Seattle Youth Climate Strike

March 18, 2019 - 1:19 pm

On Friday, March 15th, 2019, hundreds of thousands of youth all over the world left school to participate in a global youth climate strike. Youth Climate Strikes took place in over 1,300 locations across 98 countries according to CBS News. The strike was inspired by 16 year old, Greta Thunberg of Sweden, who opted out of going to school each day since late last summer, to stand in front of the Swedish Parliament in protest of adult inaction on climate change.

In Seattle, about 250 people participated in a youth climate strike at Cal Anderson Park. The event was youth led and youth organized. KBCS’s Michelle Martin interviewed 12 year old Taro Moore of Kenmore Middle School, who spoke at the rally.

Music of the Moment – March 2019

March 8, 2019 - 5:24 pm

Check out these music reviews from Iaan Hughes in this month’s installment of Music of the Moment.

African-American Suffragettes of 1913

March 7, 2019 - 11:17 am

What do the recent Women’s Marches and the Women’s Suffrage March of 1913 have in common? Racial controversy. Listen in on what it took for people with intersectional identities to fight for the right to vote.