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KBOO community radio has been bringing diverse communities together for forty years.  We offer over twenty hours per day of programs that are produced locally by volunteer community members.  This is critical for having local voices on the airwaves at a time when media ownership is consolidating and the remaining local entities turn to syndicated programs.  Furthermore we offer genuine diversity.  In a city that is over three-quarters white, we offer programming by and for Asian, African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and those from many other backgrounds.  We put youth (with a part-time youth coordinator assisting), veterans, and the disabled on the air.  And we bring these communities together on and off the air!

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Occupy Portland Radio Air Show 03/20/2013

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Occupy Portland Radio
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Wed, 03/20/2013

In this episode:

  • We talk with Dr. Tom Potiowsky about the Federal Reserve
  • We ride with Portland Rising Tide on their "Portland's 5 Worst Polluters Ride"
  • Our new friends Monica and Matt join us with their reccommendations for new documentaries regarding grassroots resistance
55:01 minutes (50.37 MB)
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Melanie Davis Interview

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Between Us
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Wed, 03/20/2013

Melanie Davis is the owner of the media company Brilliant Media.  Through it, she and her team of nearly 70 employees and staff nationwide operate Su Publico Ad Agency, El Hispanic News and Proud Queer Monthly.  Despite her youth, the road to magnate has been a long one, beginning with an iconic grandmother in her childhood New Mexico.  Don Merrill talks with lesbian latina Melanie Davis about what she loves about Portland, the publishing business and why she's OK crashing business meetings in her Harley gear. 

57:10 minutes (52.34 MB)
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Washington Budget Proposals

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Old Mole Variety Hour
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Mon, 03/18/2013

Three budgets for the Federal Government are being proposed by Republicans and Democrats in Congress.  Ellen Frank, a University of Massachussetts economist who writes for Dollars and Sense, talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the values behind each of them and what their impact would be.  

17:17 minutes (9.89 MB)
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When Can Your Government Kill You?

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Old Mole Variety Hour
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Mon, 03/18/2013

In the course of confirmation hearings for John Brennan as director of the CIA, the question was posed, "Can the President order the killing of an American citizen on US soil?"  In this commentary, Clayton Morgareidge reads from two recent articles about Rand Paul's filibuster of the Brennan nomination, asking how did such a question become a serious one, and whether the Democrats should have supported Paul.

8:08 minutes (4.65 MB)
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The Violence Against Women Act

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Old Mole Variety Hour
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Mon, 03/18/2013

Iven Hale reads this piece by Gyassi Ross from Indian Country Media Network about how rape impacts Native American women and political opposition to extending the Violence Against Women Act. 

8:28 minutes (4.84 MB)
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Can Civilization Survive Capitalism?

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Old Mole Variety Hour
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Mon, 03/18/2013

Noam Chomsky's recent piece, published on AlterNet, asks whether Capitalism, as it really exists, is compatible with democracy, or even civilization.  Tom Becker reads it here for us.  

6:09 minutes (3.52 MB)
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Live audio from Postal Service Rally

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Old Mole Variety Hour
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Mon, 03/18/2013

Bill Resnick attended the rally on Sunday in support of the Postal Service workers and against cuts in service, including Saturday deliveries.  He recorded sound bites from speeches and interviews at the rally, plus a more extended defense of the Postal Service by Willie Goshell,  in the KBOO studios.  From it all, we learn more than we knew about what the Postal Service does  to bind communities together.

11:14 minutes (6.43 MB)
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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Old Mole Variety Hour
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Mon, 03/18/2013

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Iven Hale hosts this episode of the Mole dealing with Congressional Budget proposals, drones and filibusters, rape and Native Americans, civilization's fate in the hands of capitalism, and the fight to save the US Postal Service.  

To hear the whole show, use the play button.  To hear individual segments, follow these links.  

And tune in next week, March 25, and support the Mole and KBOO with your donation during our membership drive!

58:22 minutes (33.4 MB)
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Opting Out of Standardized Testing

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Labor Radio
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Sat, 03/16/2013

A panel discussion and Q & A on the growing movement of resistance to standardized testing, featuring Jesse Hagopian, leader of the teachers boycott of the MAP test at Seattle's Garfield High School; Uvia Murillo, a Woodlawn Elementary parent who opted out of the OAKS test for her son; Elizabeth Lehl, a Vernon Elementary teacher; and Alexia Garcia, a Lincoln High student and leader of the Portland Student Union campaign urging students to opt out of the OAKS test.  KBOOs Jamie Partridge recorded the forum at Grant High School on March 16, 2013.

90:56 minutes (124.89 MB)
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Homeless Bill of Rights Part II

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Right 2 Survive
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Wed, 03/13/2013
59:55 minutes (63.16 MB)
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