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10/25 Amy Goodman, "The Silenced Majority Tour"

KBOO presents The Silenced Majority Tour A Lecture by Amy Goodman with an introduction by Denis Moynihan When: Thursday, October 25th VIP reception 6-7pm Talk & book signing ... Read more

65--TEXT--BRETON--Short Pieces available for reading, performing, producing etc.

Hi, For anyone looking for material ... someshort Breton piecesu of all sorts available for anybody to pick up. thanks love raf Read more

Rest in Peace, Lloyde Livingstone and Marty Soehrman

We are very sorry to announce the passing of two KBOO volunteers: Lloyde Livingstone and Marty Soehrman. Lloyde Livingstone, the co-founder of KBOO, has died. She came to Portland as a teenager, entering Lincoln High School as a junior. By the next year, she won the com... Read more

The BOO sent me to the Untied States Social Justice Forum, and I got an amazing tee shirt!

Thank you KBOO board members for having the fore sight to send someone (lucky me) to the USSJFSJ. From the momont I stepped into Adam Carparelli's car until three days later when I wave goodbye to Michael (Strike Debt Willson's house, he so generously gave to the for o... Read more

2010 Olympic Resistance: Stolen Lives, Stolen Land

KBOO is proud to co-sponsor:2010 Olympic Resistance: Stolen Lives, Stolen LandWhen: January 3rd, 2010Where: Native American Resource Center @ Portland State UniversityTime: 4-9PMCost: FreeSetting the Record Straight, is a collective out of Portland, OR focused on promoti... Read more

Donations Are Down, But Nonprofit CEO Pay Goes Up

Despite donations to nonprofits dropping amid the American recession, salaries for nonprofit CEOs are on the rise, and expected to rise even more in 2011. The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that 31 percent of nonprofit organizations gave a pay increase to their exec... Read more

Programming Volunteer Spotlight: DON MERRILL

Don Merrill is a relatively new volunteer here at KBOO, and has been on the air mostly as a news reporter. However, he’s also taken it upon himself to do a web only show called “The Talk”, where he interviews some of the more famous people who request air time on KBOO, a... Read more

Hate Crime in Greeley, Colorado - Victim referred to as an "it"

Most of the time when a trans woman gets murdered, mainstream media outlets usually call her a man and use male pronouns. Manytimes, what she was wearing before she was killed or beaten will be descriptively detailed along with underlying insinuations that she deserved ... Read more

Portland Fruit Beer Festival 6/11-6/12

KBOO is a proud media sponsor for the Portland Fruit Beer Festival Saturday June 11th 11-9pm Sunday June 12th 11-6pm Burnside Brewing 7th and E. Burnside Portland, OR http://burnsidebrewco.com/ Portland, OR - A new kind of beer festival kicks off this June outside of one of... Read more

Campus Equity Week

Campus Equity Week is dedicated to addressing one particular inequity among the many inequities of life in the neoliberal age, and on the neoliberal campus: the increasing turn toward part-time and temporary positions among university teaching faculty. I draw here chie... Read more