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NEW! 2/23
Yvonne Simmons (1946-2022) A Life of Loving Activism
Former Flying Focus associate and producer, activist, musician and friend
of animals Yvonne Simmons died on July 2, 2022. At a virtual memorial held
on September 25, friends and colleagues remembered Yvonne through her
music, photos, videos, and stories shared by participants. Includes clips
from some of the 25 or so programs Yvonne made with Flying Focus.
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Fixing Systems,
Demystifying Ideologies
Kevin
Kumashiro, founding director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education was the keynote speaker
at the 9th
annual NW Teaching for Social Justice Conference, in October, 2016 in Portland. He spoke
about broadening the focus of social change from smaller problems to larger issues. His talk was in
three parts: moving from simple stories to complex pictures, moving from fixing individuals to
fixing systems, and moving from debating policies to demystifying ideologies.
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Prison Art
Changes Lives
 Ashley Lucas, Associate Professor of Theater and Drama and Director of the
Prison Creative Arts Project at
the University of Michigan, shows slides of prisoners' paintings and drawings, explains
how the PCAP works and describes how prison art programs change and save lives. She also
performs a monologue from her one-woman play based on interviews with family members of
prisoners.
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Police Accountability
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Advising Police on Mental Health Issues
At an October 2021 public meeting of the Portland Police
Bureau's Behavioral Health Unit Advisory Committee (BHUAC), they were asked two key
questions. 1) Do you ever talk about the many shootings of people in
mental health crisis by the Portland Police, and 2) why are your meetings not open
to the public? See how the Committee responds to these questions.
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Police
Shootings, Misconduct and Lawsuits
Flying Focus / Portland Copwatch member Dan Handelman and KBOO Radio's
Jasmin discuss the most horrific police misconduct cases whicht
have caused the largest payouts by the City to victims or their families.
Most of the show focuses on the top 25 settlements between 1993 and 2021, but also more broadly
the questions of whether officers are ever held accountable, how often police use deadly
force in Oregon, and how many Portland Police have been involved in deadly force
incidents.
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Police Oversight
2021: Officer Fails Theft Victim
On April 8, 2021, City Council unanimously (in a 4-0
vote) agreed to change a finding on a police misconduct allegation to find
the officer violated policy. On this two-part show, Flying Focus member
Dan Handelman, also a member of Portland Copwatch, looks at this
breakthrough case on police accountability to talk about the current and
future oversight systems in Portland. The case in question involves a
woman who said that an officer violated policy by failing to take a stolen
car report, resulting in her loss of the car.
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Beyond
Policing
An October 2019 forum at Portland State University features Dr. Alex S. Vitale, author of "The
End
of Policing," sociologist Julius McGee, author
Kristian Williams, activist Alyssa Pariah and moderator Aaron Roussell.
This two-part episode covers the history
of police reform, reform vs. abolition, authoritarian policing vs. social
services, body cameras, prisons, and more.
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City Council
Finds Officer Misconduct May 2019
On May 16, 2019 history was made when Portland City Council voted to find
officer misconduct after a civilian appealed the findings that came from her
complaint. Under City Code created in 2001, the Council's decision is
final, but it had never been tested until this case. In this two part show,
Dan Handelman of Flying Focus (and Portland Copwatch) and Sam Bouman of KBOO
FM guide the viewers through the two hearings that were held.
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Portland: Get
Back Out of the Terror Task Force
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April 17, 2018 organizers of a campaign regarding Portland Police participation in a questionable
federal project held
a forum at Maranatha Church. The forum featured keynote speaker Michael German, a
fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice in Washington, DC. German was formerly an FBI agent
who blew the whistle on "deficiencies in FBI counterterrorism operations."
Also on the panel were Marleen Wallingford of the Portland JACL (Japanese American
Citizens League), Zakir Khan of Oregon Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), and
Brandon Mayfield, a local attorney who was misidentified by the FBI as a suspect in the 2004
Spanish train
bombing. Host Kimberly McCullough of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of
Oregon gave a background on the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the community's efforts to get
out.
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Overseeing
Justice: US DOJ vs. City of Portland (MHAP #3)
 On June 16, 2017 the Albina Ministerial Alliance (AMA) Coalition for Justice
and Police Reform conducted a panel as
part of the 2017 Mental Health and Law Enforcement Conference in Portland. Attorneys
Ashlee Albies and Kristen Chambers joined AMA Coalition co-chair Dr. T Allen Bethel to revisit
the Agreement requiring Portland Police to use less force. On this two-part episode they explain
history of
the Agreement and talk about what it means for people of color, people with mental health
issues, all Portlanders and the country.
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Marching for
Justice, Equality and Police Reform
 On Saturday, January 28, 2017 the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for
Justice and Police Reform held a
March for Justice and Equality that led from the Martin Luther King Jr statue at the
Convention Center to Maranatha Church in NE Portland. The date coincided with the 7th
anniversary of the death of Aaron Campbell, an unarmed African American man shot by Portland
Police in 2010, as well
as the transition to a new federal government that poses a threat to the civil liberties of many
communities.
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Police at
Mental Health Crises: Help or Hindrance? (MHAP #1)
 This show includes a panel discussion featuring Meg Kaveny, LCSW of Project
Respond, Brenton Gicker, EMT, RN of
CAHOOTS, Juliana Wallace, LCSW of Unity Center, and moderator Karen James of
KBOO Radio. The panelists discuss ways to humanely assist those in mental health crisis through
the lens of mental health professionals who sometimes partner with police agencies.
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Tased and
Confused: Civilian Oversight in Portland 2017
In February, 2017, Portland City Council held a hearing to determine if a police officer was in
policy for using a
Taser as many as six times on a man with mental health issues. Excerpts from the Council
hearing feature the Complainant, Police Chief, and the Chair of the Citizen Review Committee
(CRC), which forwarded the case to Council. Trying to explain the convoluted complaint system
and the
Council's deliberations, FFVC producer and Portland Copwatch member Dan Handelman
narrates the two-part show.
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Black and
Blue in Portland
Drs. Karen Gibson and Leanne Serbulo presented findings from their award-winning article "Black
and Blue:
Police-Community Relations in Portland's Albina District, 1964-1985." in November, 2014,
touching on ghettoization, racial profiling, police oversight, and more.
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From
Ferguson to Portland: Race and Police Accountability
 Pastor Robert White, president of Clergy United in St. Louis, MO spoke in
Portland as part of a Race and Police
Accountability Forum, relating his work after the death of teenager Michael Brown in
Ferguson. The Albina Ministerial Alliance (AMA) Coalition for Justice and Police Reform
organized the forum, the second half of which was a community update on the US Department of
Justice lawsuit
against the Portland Police for their excessive use of force.
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Systems of Government
War and Peace
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Norman Solomon: War, Activism and the Media
 On a June, 2023 livestream in Portland, the author/
analyst/ activist talked about his new book "War Made Invisible" and
how the media is complicit in disappearing the deadly toll of US military
actions.
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David Swanson: Prevent, Don't Provoke, World War III
 In June 2021, the Executive Director of World Beyond War, spoke on a Portland,
Oregon-based
livestream event covering a variety of issues including the illegality
(and madness) of making war, how environmental and police issues are connected, and how US
policy seems set up to
spark a third World War.
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Current Wars, New Wars, Street Wars-10/17
 October 2017 panel discussion connecting America's
ongoing wars (in Iraq,
Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia), the new
threats of war (with Korea, Iran and Russia) and the rise of right wing
extremism an violence in the streets at home.
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US Wars, Climate Change & the Economy
A panel including an Afghan American, and Israeli American, a
veteran and an economist discusses Iraq,
Afghanisan, Syria, Israel/Palestine, the environment and the
economy in Sept. 2014.
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How Can We Create A Nuclear Free World? Hiroshima Day 2011
Information, music and poetry include Nobel Peace Prize nominee
Kathy Kelly, Veterans for Peace, a Hiroshima
survivor, and a song from the Slants.
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