A PROGRAMMERS MEETING.

The Strategic Plan asks us to meet yearly...

This year, we will gather on SEPTEMBER 22ND from 1-3pm at the Musicians Union Hall, 325 NE 20th, Portland, (just south of Sandy Blvd.) 

Topics include going over the new Programmer Rights and Responsibilities (The Program Advisory Committee and the Staff have gone over it, this is time for your feedback!) and getting ready for Membership Drive.

More items coming, plus snacks!

For the Old Mole Variety Hour 17 Sept 2012

Joanne Barkan in Dissent Magazine notes that,

Yes, schoolchildren in Chicago are victims, but not of their teachers. They are victims of a nationwide education “reform” movement geared to undermine teachers’ unions and shift public resources into private hands; they are victims of wave after wave of ill-conceived and failing policy “innovations”; they are victims of George Bush’s No Child Left Behind law, which turned inner-city public schools into boot camps for standardized test prep; they are victims of Barack Obama’s Race to the Top program, which paid states to use student test scores—a highly unreliable tool—for teacher evaluations and to lift caps on the number of privately managed charter schools, thus draining resources from public schools. Chicago’s children are victims of “mayoral control,” which allows Rahm Emanuel to run the school system, bully parents and teachers, and appoint a Board of Education dominated by corporate executives and political donors.

Many thanks to our fellow KBOO & community members for attending this year's Annual Meeting & Election! It was a great time to meet, greet & vote!

We had guest speaker, Dante James, Director of the City of Portland's Office of Equity & Human Rights, as well as the State of the Station address provided by KBOO Board President, S.W. Conser.

Until then, here are the votes received for each candidate (top 4 candidates are newly-elected Board members, effective as of Oct. 1, 2012):

KBOO is a proud sponsor of The State of Equity: Right to Occupy Your Health, Citizenship & Education

Why are these people smiling? Because they’re Friends of Trees crew leaders! You can be one, too.

Friends of Trees is seeking new crew leaders for the upcoming Oct.-April planting season. If you like working with people, enjoy being outdoors, and are interested in restoring natural areas or planting trees in neighborhoods, this role is made for you!

KBOO's own Tillicum Wawa show is promoting a drive for winter coats and boots for girls and boys age K-12.

These children live on the snowy Pine Rdige  Reservation. They have been trying to get people to stop selling alcohol near their reservation and it has been fruitless so far. We can help them to keep warm this winter and help their cause to stop alcohol abuse on the reservation.. Listen to our archived show on 8- 30-12. about this problem.

Just drop off your donations to KBOO station at 8th adn Burnside. There is a bin to put them in.

We all thank you, our listeners, for your empathy and encouragement. Wado, Samantha King

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KBOO is proud to sponsor Jeff Halper's A Single Democratic State in Israel-Palestine: The Only Option Israel and the United States Have Left Us