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Talk Radio on 07/23/10

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Fri, 07/23/2010 - 8:00am - 9:00am
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Economics professor RICHARD WOLFF on "Austerity: Why and for Whom?"

Host Per Fagereng interviews RICHARD WOLFF, author of the book "Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It." He recently wrote the piece "Austerity: Why and for Whom?"
Richard Wolff is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a visiting professor in the Graduate Program for International Affairs at the New School University in New York City. Video of his talk "Capitalism Hits the Fan" is available at: http://www.capitalismhitsthefan.com .
 

Talk Radio on 07/09/10

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Fri, 07/09/2010 - 8:00am - 9:00am
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Are you on the no-fly list?

Are you on it?
How do you get off it?
Why are millions of Americans living in limbo?
Tre Arrow and Chris Andreae - plus special, David Fidanque, head of the Oregon Chapter of the ACLU, - invite you to call in with questions, answers and quandaries regarding the infamous ‘No Fly List. Don’t miss it!
 

Talk Radio on 06/30/10

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Wed, 06/30/2010 - 8:00am - 9:00am
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Dr. Ron Walters, director of the African American Institute, on unemployment

Are you unemployed? Are you receiving benefits? How are you holding out? Host Lisa Loving speaks live with Dr. Ron Walters, director of the African American Institute and professor emeritus of government and politics from the University of Maryland. His opinion column this week is about radical Republicans’ defeat of unemployment benefit extensions in Congress, and we want to hear your story about unemployment.

 

 

Talk Radio on 06/23/10

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Wed, 06/23/2010 - 8:00am - 9:00am
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Neighborhood Activism

Lisa Loving hosts. Her guest is neighborhood activist and environmentalist Jeri Williams. They will discuss neighborhood issues and the national budget discussion happening on June 26th.

Talk Radio on 06/11/10

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Fri, 06/11/2010 - 8:00am - 9:00am
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Rally to support federal transit funding

Erik Jorgensen hosts. His guest is Michael Pucik, organizer of the "Save Our Ride" rally in support of federal transit funding.  Bus and train operators and local transit supporters will rally in downtown Portland on June 11.  They say that eliminating federal red tape and outdated requirements established decades ago will allow communities to use federal funds to ensure that service needs can be met.

What: Rally to Protect Transit Service
When: Friday, June 11th, 4 pm
Where: Director Park (South Park block between Taylor and SW Yamhill)

 

Talk Radio on 06/09/10

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Wed, 06/09/2010 - 8:00am - 9:00am
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Election Reform

Lisa Loving hosts. The topic is election reform. Lisa’s guest is Blair Bobier, Former Deputy Director, Political Reform Program at New America Foundation.

Talk Radio on 06/02/10

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Wed, 06/02/2010 - 8:00am - 9:00am
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Police Accountablilty

Lisa Loving hosts.

Talk Radio on 05/28/10

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Fri, 05/28/2010 - 8:00am - 9:00am
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Has the Radical Right Poisoned America's Airwaves?

Host Crystal Leighty interviews Bill Press, author of "Toxic Talk: How the Radical Right Has Poisoned America's Airwaves."

Talk Radio on 05/19/10

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Wed, 05/19/2010 - 8:00am - 9:00am
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Matt Davis of the Portland Mercury

Lisa Loving speaks with Matt Davis, news editor at "The Portland Mercury," about election results and more. Matt Davis is leaving Portland this week.

Talk Radio on 05/12/10

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Black Panthers founder, David Hilliard, on his book The Black Panthers Community Service Projects.

Hunger, failed schools, home foreclosures – what can communities do to survive during tough times? They can help themselves, that’s what. This week on Wednesday morning talk radio, host Lisa Loving speaks with a Black Panthers founder, David Hilliard, on his book The Black Panthers Community Service Projects.

 

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Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays and a 3 Year Anniversary Party

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Wed, 02/22/2012

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Marriage Equality, Family, and Portland PFLAG's 3rd Anniversary celebration this weekend. Our guests are Khalil and Antoinette Edwards from Portland's chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.

Click here for videos, websites, stories and fun tweets on this issue.

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

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Susan Herman on “Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy"

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Wed, 02/15/2012

 Host Lisa Loving speaks with Susan Herman about her new book “Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy” which takes a hard look at the human and social costs of the War on Terror. A decade after 9/11, it is far from clear that the government's hastily adopted antiterrorist tactics--such as the Patriot Act--are keeping us safe, but it is increasingly clear that these emergency measures in fact have the potential to ravage our lives--and have already done just that to countless Americans. Herman gives a powerful account of how civil liberties have rapidly eroded in post-9/11 America, tells numerous stories of ordinary people caught in the government's surveillance dragnet, explains that the state of emergency has continued into the Obama administration, and shows why we must remain vigilant if we are to hold on to our age-old freedoms

Susan Herman is President of the American Civil Liberties Union. She holds a chair as Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where she teaches courses and seminars in Constitutional Law, Terrorism, and Civil Liberties. She is the author of “The Right to a Speedy and Public Trial: A Reference Guide to the The Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution” and “Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy.”

 
 
 

 

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What's wrong with anti-contraception conservatives?

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Wed, 02/01/2012

 Lisa Loving's guest is Robert Walker, Executive Vice President of the Population Institute.

If the current GOP presidential primary campaign is remembered for nothing else, it will be known for the meteoric rise of the "anti-contraception conservatives."

• Rick Santorum thinks states should have the power to ban family planning.

• Mitt Romney wants to eliminate funding for Title X, which helps to provides low-income women with access to family planning and reproductive health services.

• Rick Perry proudly trumpeted the fact that Texas had slashed state support for family planning clinics by two-thirds.

Taxpayers may instinctively applaud such cuts. But every dollar invested in helping women avoid unwanted pregnancies saves $4.02 in Medicaid expenditures that otherwise will be needed for pregnancy-related care.

Furthermore, many fail to realize that eliminating publicly-supported family planning services would actually increase the number of abortions in the U.S. Title X-supported centers alone helped avert 406,200 abortions in 2008 by providing high quality contraception.

"That it has gotten as far as it has in the past 18 months is unnerving," says Robert Walker of the Population Institute. "The escalating assaults on contraception are not only short-sighted financially,” but according to Walker, "they are really a war on women and their reproductive health and rights."

Robert Walker is the Executive Vice President of the Population Institute, which works to promote voluntary family planning and reproductive health services, and to increase awareness of the social, economic, and environmental consequences of rapid population growth.

 
 
 

 

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Joe Uris guest hosts Friday Morning Talk Radio

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Fri, 01/27/2012

Joe Uris guest hosts Friday Morning Talk Radio

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Literacy programs at Multnomah County Library

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Wed, 01/25/2012

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It used to be that literacy was a question of: can you read or can't you? Today literacy experts look at the levels of reading ability -- reading a medicine bottle, a newspaper, or a ballot all require different levels of literacy. Our guests today, Melissa Madensky, and Joy Meyers, from the Multnomah County Library talks about their new literacy programs at the North Portland Library. Tune in and call 503-231-8187 with your stories about the issue, plus find out how you can help increase literacy in your community. Wednesday at 8am on 90.7 FM, KBOO.

Find links here to articles, documents and videos about adult literacy and related issues.

 
 
 

 

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Right 2 Dream Too talking about their homeless families' encampment on a fenced streetcorner

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Wed, 01/18/2012

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First snowstorm of the year, and host Lisa Loving spends the hour with Ibrahim Mubarak, Derrick Shelton, and Shasta Leming from Right 2 Dream Too talking about their homeless families' encampment on a fenced streetcorner on NW Burnside Street in Portland. 
Questions for Right 2 Dream Too, or offers of resources, call us during the show at 503-231-8171.
Right 2 Dream Too. Get involved with them here and they are on Facebook . 

Read recent media coverage of the movement and the issue here.

 
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Arun Gupta on the current state of the Occupy Movement

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Fri, 01/13/2012
 
Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Arun Gupta,

New York writer and co-founder of Occupy the Wall Street Journal, who reports for Salon from occupation sites all over the United States. They'll talk about the current state of the Occupy movement and take your calls.

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Center for Intercultural Organizing

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Wed, 01/11/2012

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The Center for Intercultural Organizing kicked off 2012 with a special program -- First Friday gatherings where friends and members share their citizenship status stories of hope and courage. Join host Lisa Loving and guests Carmen Madrid and Andrew Riley for a frank conversation about what's going on in our immigrant communities.

DO Reserve time on your calendar on June 21, 2012, for CIO's Annual Fundraiser.

Operation Fast and Furious, in which the US Government is complicit in arming Mexican Drug Cartels, was mention during the show.

Unfortunately, SB 742 and SB 845 failed to pass the Oregon Legislature, but, have no fear, these are being reworked for another try.  One entitles all Oregon High School Graduates to In-State Tuition Rates in ORegon Colleges, and the other helps New Immigrants obtain Drivers Licenses.

 

 
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Portland Youth Summit 2012--'The Miseducation of Our Youth

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Wed, 01/04/2012

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The murder of Portland teen Davonte Lightfoot in 2007 pushed organizer Imani Muhammad to create an annual series of events unlike any other – by, for and about Black youth in the Portland area. This year’s Portland Youth Summit theme is: The Mis-education of Our Youth. Join host Lisa Loving and guests Imani Muhammad, recording artist and educator Mic Crenshaw and activist Jasiri X Wednesday morning at 8.

KBOO Community Radio is a media sponsor of the Portland Youth Summit. Read the entire schedule of events here.

Photos by Venetia Kelley.

And, of course...  Let's not forget to support Socially Responsible Businesses like The Freedom Paper Company

 
 
 

 

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Oregon Zoo Arctic Ambassador, Caroline Bass, talks about Climate Change

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Wed, 12/28/2011

Host Lisa Loving’s guest is teenaged activist and Oregon Zoo Arctic Ambassador Caroline Bass, who traveled to the far northern reaches of Manitoba, Canada this fall with Polar Bears International to learn more about global warming and the threatened habitat of polar bears. What can we do to save the planet?

Article Co-Authored by Caroline at the PBI Leadership Camp:
A Lazy Bear & Energized Teens

 (Photos by Caroline Bass)

During the show, a listener recommended Dirt, The Movie

The importance of eating less meat came up, and a listener recommended Go Vegan Radio.

Another listener, Barry, claimed that Human Emissions are irrelevant because Volcanoes emit much, much, more Greenhouse Gas than Humans ever could, so changing OUR behavior would have little or no effect on climate.  He implied that  we'd have to plug up all the world's Volcanoes to get any significant reduction in Greenhouse Gases.

Well...  The Scientists at the USGS think otherwise...  "Human activities, responsible for a projected 35 billion metric tons (gigatons) of CO2 emissions in 2010 (Friedlingstein et al., 2010), release an amount of CO2 that dwarfs the annual CO2 emissions of all the world’s degassing subaerial and submarine volcanoes."
 

 

 
 

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RE: Youth Domestic Violence

Submitted by VernonHuffman on Wed, 02/16/2011 - 9:43am.

One big factor in domestic violence is our culture of militarism. The US military devotes huge sums marketing militarism to youth. Their root assumption is that violence is the ultimate problem solver. Once recruited, youth are taught specific violent techniques. Statistics show that domestic violence is worse in areas that have military bases.

One solution to this violence is tax resistance. Refuse to pay federal taxes until military spending is dramatically cut.

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