April 9, 2018 - 8:00 am
For this week’s Unmute the Commute, follow us with two Seattle moms as they share their experiences breastfeeding on public transit. Produced by Ann Kane.
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April 4, 2018 - 1:31 pm
50 years ago today, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. As one of the principle leaders of the civil rights movement King spoke of non-violent resistance and love as the antidote to hate. Seattle author and speaker, Ijeoma Oluo spoke at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr annual celebration at Garfield High
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April 4, 2018 - 11:23 am
Up next is a story from Yes! Magazine about a different take on farming. Yes! Magazine’s Bailey Williams and Isabelle Morrison discuss why some people grow food in shipping containers. To find out more, check out the article on Yes! Magazine’s website, “Why This Montana Farmer Grows Food Year-Round in Shipping Containers“.
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April 3, 2018 - 1:17 pm
April is Autism Awareness Month, and you’ll listen to an interview on how people with autism experience life. KBCS’s Sonya Green spoke with Sara Gardner, Bellevue College Autism Spectrum Navigator Program Director about the spectrum of Autism. The interview originally broadcast in 2015
April 2, 2018 - 6:19 pm
Remember the first time you rode public transit? Think of what your learning curve was like. You may not have known that here in King County, Metro offers training to help flatten that learning curve. Today on Unmute the Commute, Transit Training. Produced by Jennie Cecil-Moore. Unmute the Commute is supported in part by Just
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March 30, 2018 - 4:53 pm
KBCS begins a new weekly series on Incarcerated Women.
The United States incarcerates more of its citizens than any other country in the world. Of the over 740,000 people incarcerated in the United States, well over 200,000 are women. The effects on families, communities and taxpayers is pronounced. Over the next months KBCS takes a look at the impacts of locking up the women on our community.
March 27, 2018 - 1:32 pm
91.3 KBCS · 91.3 KBCS 20180327 Mothers Radiation Lab Final A group of mothers in Japan founded the Mothers Radiation Lab in Iwaki City of Fukushima prefecture, Japan. The women were frustrated by the lack of accessible information about nuclear contamination after the 2011 disaster at the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. They set
March 27, 2018 - 12:04 pm
91.3 KBCS · 91.3 KBCS 20180327 Fukushima Directly after the Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Would you leave your home if you heard the nearby nuclear power plant was melting down? How would you navigate your family’s safety and obligations to work? 7 years ago this month, on March 12th residents of Eastern Japan, were
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March 22, 2018 - 11:25 am
Yes! Magazine’s Bailey Williams speaks with Josue Rivas, an award winning photographer and film director, who specializes in challenging the main stream narrative of indigenous people. In Yes! Magazine’s Spring 2018 “decolonize” issue, he published a photo essay about his time at Standing Rock. In this interview, Rivas reflects on his time at Standing Rock and discusses his larger project, titled “Standing Strong”.
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March 20, 2018 - 12:15 am
Maru Mora-Villalpando is an Undocumented Immigrant rights Activist, founder of NWDC Resistance and #Not1More Deportation. In January, 2018, she was served a letter from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ordering her to appear in immigration court at an unspecified date. Then, in February, 2018, the Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL) admitted that it furnished records to a request from ICE about Mora-Villalpando and other undocumented Washington residents. KBCS’s Yuko Kodama spoke with Mora-Villalpando last month about her experience with the DOL and how she expects the state to respond to the DOL’s actions.
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