Host Joe Uris brings a variety of topics to the table today, including the controversial LNG Terminals in Oregon, the Presidential Race, and the Columbia River Crossing. Our conservative friend James is declared KBOO's official Rush [Limbaugh] Reporter, inspiring some listener comments on the place of inflammatory Hate Speech and death threats on the public air waves.
Hope Shand, Research Director for the ETC Group and I discuss their new report
describing efforts by the ag-biotech industry to patent 'climate-ready'
genes which would theoretically allow our most common agricultural
crops to continue thriving in the warm future confronting us all.
Hostess Chris Andreae has a two part show today. First up, Chris talks with Malcolm Cradock from Veterans for Peace (vfpChapter72.org) about how to wage peace in America and beyond.
Next up, Chris interviews Peter Schoonmaker, President of the Illahee Institute (Illahee.org) on why we believe what we believe...
The Pentagon and US Military have been waging a secret war against foreign Journalist including locking them up in Guantanamo without charges. In this segment of Civil Liberties watch reporter Linda Olson-Osterlund takes a closer look.
The Portland State University chapter of the NAACP will host a seminar entitled Black America: A state of Emergency! this Saturday. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">
KBOO reporter Christian Danielsen spoke with chapter organizers Aimeera Flint and Erica Lee-Johnson
Hosts Hala Gores and William Seaman welcome their guests, George Bisharat, Zaha Hassan and Peter Miller to discuss th Nakba, the Catastrophe of 1948, 60 Years of Dispossession.
In a effort to prevent racial profiling in Portland by
police, local activist submitted a petition to Portland Police Chief Rosie
Sizer requesting the City renew its attention to the problem.
Building on the work of visionPDX, the Portland Plan
is a citywide effort to guide the physical, economic, social, cultural
and environmental development of Portland over the next 30 years. City Repair, among many projects,
seeks to activate people to be part of the communities around them, as
well as part of the decision-making that shapes the future of their