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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"Chicago Golden Gloves - Final Bouts" by Kate Gardiner is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
March 12, 2018 - 2:22 pm
Now we meet some women who have a hard hitting way of combating gender norms. KBCS’s Anjali Skilton has the story about women who box.
"Steller's Jay" by shell game is licensed under CC BY-CD-ND 2.0
March 12, 2018 - 2:20 pm
Sometimes confused with the Blue Jay, meet the Stellar’s Jay, who can mimic others and likes to play. KBCS’s Yuko Kodama and Ed Dominguez, Seward Park Audubon Center Lead Naturalist, hiked the trails of Seward Park and came across the local bird with a playful side.
"Moral Mondays - 11.28.16" by Pilar Timpane is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
March 12, 2018 - 10:50 am
Several political leaders and activists from the civil rights movement commemorated Bloody Sunday in Selma Alabama Sunday with a Jubilee and a march across the Edmond Pettis Bridge. Before the commemorative march across the bridge Rev. Dr. William Barber spoke about the state of civil rights today in front of Browns Chapel where the original march in 1965 started from. KBCS’s Ruth Bly was there with Project Pilgrimage.
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March 7, 2018 - 12:40 am
20 days, 20 different commutes. Today’s Unmute the Commute is brought to us by producer Jennie Cecil Moore.
