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MLK's Legacy

Audio here. These days, everybody wants a piece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Last year, Glen Beck invoked King's legacy to promote his own rally, claiming the tea party was fighting the same fight as King. And last week, the general counsel of the Department of De... Read more

Rethinking the school-to-military pipeline

A version of this is part of the Old Mole Variety Hour  for 25 May 2015 Today is Memorial Day, so we're talking about memory, and the military, as well as about education and labor. All of those institutions arose in their modern disciplinary forms in the 18th century, al... Read more

Day of 1,000 Drums

Day of 1,000 Drums Sunday, May 30 12:00p to 4:00p at Portland Avenue Park, Tacoma, WA Drummers, musical performers and Native American activist speakers will share their talents in support of restoring Native American names to sacred sites. The Day of 1000... Read more

Nothing has changed

  Nothing Has Changed  How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right. Black Hawk, Sauk   "The white people who are trying to make us over into their image, they want us to be what they call assimilated, bri... Read more

5th Monday Labor Radio Election Special! 3rd Party Alternatives!

  Checkout Voices in Action, Human Rights on Film! by NWFilm.org sponsored by KBOO and The Portland Alliance http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/humanrightsfilms http://laborradiocollective.blogspot.com/ On October 29, 2012, Fifth Monday Labor Radio on KBOO will have an hour lo... Read more

32--TEXT--OLIVERIO GIRONDO Poetry #2--Prose Poems

Hi, This is a very small collection of GIRONDO's Prose Poems which are available individually or as a group.  This will probably be the last GIRONDO, at least for a while. There is one more 2-voice piece I'm contemplating scripting but I'm also interested in trying to ... Read more

We reached our $50,000 Winter membership drive goal early Friday afternoon.

A huge round of thanks to the members, volunteers, food donors and staff who enabled us to reach our $50,000 goal over a day ahead of schedule.  This is the earliest we've ended a drive in years, so we're all really very excited about it.  If you didn't contribute yet, y... Read more

Securing basic rights and dignity to a silent workforce.

The Coalition of Black Trade Unionist segment of Labor Radio will feature Andrea Paluso is co-founder and executive director of Family Forward Oregon. Andrea is a community activist and fervent policy wonk. Tonight's discussion is about the 2015 Oregon Legislation  and t... Read more

Celebrating the Spirit of Dave Carter

Today's show was about celebrating the life and music of one of my favorite singer songwriters--Dave Carter who died unexpectedly on July  19, 2001.  I was at the Vancouver Folk Festival in Vancouver BC (which had been a 10+ year summer pilgrimage every year, the highlig... Read more

Support KBOO Sponsors

Sponsors You Can Believe In Don't forget that every day, progressive businesses and organizations support the KBOO programming you love through underwriting.  Our underwriters are lovers of KBOO just like you:  They support public access to public airwaves, the recruitm... Read more