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THANK YOU Dear Members!

We thank you so much, our KBOO Members New and Renewing, for your amazing support for our Fall Membership Drive. We cut a day off the drive before we even started, and were able to end early on our last day, as well. We are proud to be here as your community radio stati... Read more

The new poll tax

The great Rachel Maddow on the modern poll tax: (still working on embedding video. Watch it anyway, foo!) (H/T, Pandagon) -A Read more

Call in first Saturday in July for Confessional 2:am Talk with Contessa de la Luna Live

Contessa de la Luna wants to hear from you. How you feeling? How you coping with'a crazy things going on in'a world every day. What'a are you fears for the future? What do you think will be the next catastrophe to happen on world/national/local scale? Times, they are'a t... Read more

New CDs in music library June 13, 2012

Cartal, Felix Different faces dim Mak Electronica Datsik Vitamin D Dim Mak Electronica Mbrascatu Self-titled Self-released Europe [contemporary] Various artists Italia 4: Roots Music Atlas Felmay Europe: Italy Tobias. Todd Medicine Show... Read more

Portland police tackle racial profiling...again

People of color continue to be stopped and searched by the police than other Portlanders. Racial profiling has not abated according to a draft 36-page report released February 18 by Portland Police Bureau Chief Rosie Sizer. The report, long awaited by the community, outl... Read more

Final tally for Haiti relief

During our February 18th special to fundraise for Haitian earthquake recovery efforts, KBOO listeners generously donated nearly $12,000 to support four organziations picked by KBOO. Now that we've tallied all the actual payments, we're happy to report that we exceeded (b... Read more

Proposing an Idle No More/Indigenous Actions 30 minute morning talk show with J.Keeler

Osiyo, Kboo'ers. I will be submitting a proposal for a Native American show keying on Idle No More, AIM, and other grassroot organizations and the revolution. Read more

RIAA To Shift Tactics

Interesting notes on the RIAA and their War on Us: "Peace in our time" - 10 years later the music industry's highly controversial strategy of suing individuals for illegal file-sharing has come to an end, wants ISPs to adopt a three-strikes policy. I've read the article ... Read more

Inception: A minority report

Inception Director: Christopher Nolan With: Leonardo DeCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe, Marion Cotillard, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, etc. Having missed the press screening, I saw this commercially and after the critical anointing as the film of the... Read more

Catch the Live Feed for Pickathon Here

Back home from Pickathon and selecting music for tonight's program (midnight-3am). You can catch some live acts here http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/08/paste-magazine-to-stream-pickathon-2012.html. Neko Case was terrifc last night after a long day of travel she ... Read more