KBOO Audio Archives

This past Sunday, a town hall meeting was held at the friends meeting hall here in Portland, Oregon, on the subject of ending the funding of the Afghanistan and Iraq occupations.

Some twenty people testified at the Town Hall.

5:12 minutes (1.49 MB)

Our Backyard: The candidates for President and the environment!

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Tue, 04/22/2008

This edition: the candidates for President and some thoughts on endorsements and the traditional media. The two Democratic candidates for President, Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as well as the Republican candidate, Senator John McCain have all put forth some plan to address energy and climate change. Grist, the Seattle-based environmental online news-zine, interviewed each candidate and fact-checked their environmental platforms and records ( http://www.grist.org/candidate_chart_08.html ). The traditional media seems to be ignoring the environment as an issue important to most people (http://www.

4:04 minutes (3.73 MB)

Leigh Ann Caldwell from Election Unspun on the PA Primary

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Elections

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Locus Focus

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Tue, 04/22/2008

Host Barbara Bernstein interviews Leigh Ann Caldwell, News Editor for Free Speech Radio News and Producer for Election UnSpun. Today's main topic is the Pennsylvania Primary.

86:02 minutes (39.39 MB)

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Marc Acito talks about his newest novel, Attack of the Theater People

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Culture/Arts

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Between the Covers

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Tue, 04/22/2008

Producer Lisa Loving interviews award-winning novelist and political commentator Marc Acito about his newest comic novel, Attack of the Theater People.

28:09 minutes (25.77 MB)

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Dahr Jamail on his book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq

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War & Peace

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Between the Covers

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Mon, 10/01/2007

Producer Lisa Loving interviews Dahr Jamail about his independent news reporting from the front lines of the U.S. war in Iraq.

25:16 minutes (23.14 MB)

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Are we Facing a Nuclear Power Relapse?

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Environment

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Tue, 04/22/2008

A discussion with Michael Mariotte, Executive Director of the Nuclear Information & Resource Service, about the possibility of a nuclear power relapse in the U.S., and around the world.