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Hamid Dahbashi and Kaveh Ehsani on the rigged elections in Iran

Airs at: Mon, 06/29/2009 at 5:00pm
 Guest Host: Goudarz Eghtedari Why were elections in Iran rigged? What do the Iranian Demonstrators want? Is the Green Wave in Iran another CIA staged colour revolution? For some answers tune into KBOO's special talk show with Goudarz Eghtedari when he interviews Professors H... Read more

Is this what Democracy looks like?

Airs at: Wed, 06/24/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for: 
Words can be used to communicate ideas between people, to describe things we can't point to.  Words can also be used to separate and manipulate.  This happens in our media all the time.  Remember when the prior administration talked about "spreading democracy"?   This was ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 22, 2009

Airs at: Sun, 06/21/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Hosted by Frann Michel, and featuring several versions of our theme song "I wish I Was a Mole in the Ground," this program discusses how our broken economy needs to be fixed if it is to work for all of us; the recent Supreme Court refusal to grant convicted inmates the rig... Read more

Lents Park Baseball Stadium *derailed* by Community Activists!!!

Airs at: Tue, 06/23/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Locus Focus
 A proposed baseball stadium in Lents has been derailed. How did this happen and why is it good for Lents?   Hosted by: Barbara Bernstein       It looks like the contentious baseball stadium in Lents Parkis a not going to be built after all. But there’s still plenty to chew ... Read more

Supreme Court: No Right to DNA Tests

Airs at: Sun, 06/21/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 By a split decision, the US Supreme Court has ruled that there is no constitutional right to have a conviction reviewed on the basis of DNA evidence.  Civil Rights attorney Mike Snedeker explains the impact of the decision in this conversation with the Old Mole's Jan Haaken. Read more

What Is Feminism Anyway?

Airs at: Fri, 06/19/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Bridget B. here and I'm your host for this edition of Bread and Roses on KBOO 90.7FM.  Listen in as I talk about Feminism with references from key voices from the feminist movement, including Gloria from All In The Family, Gloria Steinem and Rebecca Walker. Yes, this will b... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 06/17/09

Airs at: Wed, 06/17/2009 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
June 19th marks the 144th anniversary of the landing of federal troops in Galveston, Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation and finally bring slavery to an end throughout the United States. "Juneteenth" has not only become a day to commemorate the end of slavery but... Read more

Iran: Elections, Power and Protest

Airs at: Wed, 06/17/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
Theresa Mitchell of Presswatch is on break this week and next. Instead we hear a special 1-hour "Fight the Empire" show with Per Fagereng. The topic is Iran: Elections, Power and Protest. The guest is Muhammed Sahimi, professor of chemical engineering at the University of S... Read more

A survey of the conservative zeitgeist yields stupidity and murder

Airs at: Mon, 06/15/2009 at 5:00pm
 Hosted by: Abe Proctor   A survey of the conservative zeitgeist yields stupidity and murder While Joe takes a vacation, Abe takes a pass through conservative airspace, and flushes out words and deeds ranging from the merely stupid and offensive to the violent and murder... Read more

Domestic tranquillity

June 16, 2009 There's something about having a leftist politician (and I use that term loosely) in the White House that brings out the crazies. We all remember how it happened under Bill Clinton, and it's clear that it's even more of a problem under Barack Obama. In fact, s... Read more