KEPW Newsday for June 20, 2025

Sam Broadway (KEPW Newsday): This is KEPW 97.3 FM LP, broadcasting locally here in Eugene, Oregon and simulcast online at KEPW.org. And now, the news. This is KEPW Newsday for Friday the 20th of June, 2025.

Presenter: Sam Broadway, dean of the KEPW News team, is away and participating in a protest. Here is the top story June 20 from Democracy Now, which you can hear on KEPW 97.3 Monday through Friday mornings at 8 a.m. Amy Goodman:

[00:01:08] Amy Goodman: Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi is set to hold talks with France, Germany, and the United Kingdom today in Geneva as Israel’s attacks on Iran enter a second week. A U.S.-based Iranian human rights group reports the Israeli attacks have killed at least 639 people.

[00:01:26] Israeli war planes have repeatedly pummeled Tehran and other parts of Iran. Iran’s responded by continuing to launch missile strikes into Israel. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians protested today in Iran against Israel. Meanwhile, President Trump continues to give mixed messages on whether the U.S. will join Israel’s attack on Iran.

[00:01:47] Presenter: That was Amy Goodman with the top story on Democracy Now. Here is the top story June 20 from the KEPW News team, which you can hear Sundays through Fridays at 1:30 in the afternoon.

[00:02:00] The city of Eugene could lose $32 million in federal funding. Outgoing Human Rights Commission Chair Blake Burrell:

[00:02:07] Blake Burrell (Human Rights Commission, chair): As I’m stepping away from the Human Rights Commission and I end my term, I think that we are in a country that’s in turmoil. And this constitutional crisis and the dialogue that we’re having surrounding these issues, there are very real human rights implications. And watching Los Angeles and the use of military…

[00:02:29] We are a progressive West Coast city, and we do have policies that have been specifically indexed. We have funds that have been restricted. The airport’s a great example of just infrastructure money that we can’t access as a result of the city of Eugene saying, ‘We’re not going to participate in that. We value immigrants and we’re not collaborating with ICE.’

[00:02:54] We’re looking at a genuine defunding of our local municipality due to our honoring human rights in various areas. And there’s a lot of providers in our community that are being asked to remove DEI, being asked to not promote illegal gender ideology, being asked to use immigrant screening databases in order to access pass-through dollars for public funds.

[00:03:21] Presenter: That was the chair of the Human Rights Commission, Blake Burrell, in the top story today from KEPW News. Here is the Public News Service for June 20, 2025:

[00:03:32] Mike Clifford: The Public News Service Friday afternoon update. I’m Mike Clifford…

[00:14:34] Presenter: Award-winning videographer Todd Boyle is a regular contributor to KEPW News. We asked him June 19 to recommend an event to air this week, and he came up with this high-energy speech from 2013. Here’s Todd Boyle:

[00:14:49] Todd Boyle: We were just sitting here listening for the last hour to a woman named Ashley Sanders who spoke about the history of corporate power, you know, going back to the 1500s from the initial idea of corporations. (I’m going to have to promote this.)

[00:15:04] But I recorded, I guess in 2013, it’s the history of, you know, the Hudson Bay Company and, basically the 13 colonies were corporations. They were investments made by rich people in England and other countries, but mainly England, to pay for the ships to come over here and set up a colony. And why? Why? Because they wanted to extract the wealth and profit one way or another from their colonies.

[00:15:33] And that’s how our Constitution was written. Before the Bill of Rights, it was a property constitution. Even after the U.S. had won the Revolutionary War. Then the same elites, you know, in our own colonies, went right to work behind closed doors to write the Constitution as a property constitution.

[00:15:52] Presenter: On September 28, 2013, Ashley Sanders:

[00:15:56] Ashley Sanders: Hey, everybody. It’s really good to be here and see all of your faces. I’m glad we have a packed house…

[00:53:48] Todd Boyle: What a great tutorial that was. She’s one of the national organizers of Move to Amend to overturn (the Supreme Court case) Citizens United, you know. Ashley Sanders.

[00:54:01] Cedric: That was award-winning videographer Todd Boyle, reflecting on a presentation by Ashley Sanders that he recorded in 2013. And with that we’ll close this edition of KEPW Newsday, sitting in for Sam Broadway, the anchor of the KEPW News team, who is currently participating in a protest.

[00:54:20] Sam Broadway (KEPW Newsday): For this edition of KEPW Newsday, this is Sam Broadway reminding all of you during these difficult times and ever-changing weather and blustery winds and what-have-you, to help yourself by helping someone else.

All right, we will be glad to see you when we can return and this situation is remedied permanently. Thank you again for your patience and we’ll see hopefully see you very soon.