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It's KBOO's Spring Membership Drive! Donate now to help us reach our $117,000 goal by May 4th! Call 877-500-5266 You are the person who makes the difference! Since 1968, you and KBOO have been making the best community radio on earth! In 1983, you helped KBOO build th... Read more

  Guest host Jenna Yokoyama features Milagro Theatre's last play of the season, Watsonville: Some Place Not Here By Cherríe Moraga about women in a 1985 – 1987 Cannery strike in California. We'll hear from director Elizabeth Huffman and actor Bunnie Rivera. We'll also be g... Read more

  Eric Bartels interviews Becky Clark, president of the Oregon Potters Association, the collective behind the 36th annual Ceramic Showcase, which opens Friday, April 27th at the Oregon Convention Center. The OPA says the three-day event, which features the work of over 150... Read more

    Ehrenreich has done it again! The author of "Nickel and Dimed," "Bright-Sided" and many others now offers us her fresh and unique take on the medical establishment, the "wellness industry," and our peculiar attidudes to death and dying. Her prose is as always succinct... Read more

  On this week's show, we present a recent talk, "Giants - The Global Power Elite," given by Peter Phillips at Sonoma State University this past March. Extending the ideas of C. Wright Mills to the 21st century, Peter Phillips contends that a few hundred corporate managers... Read more

  Stephanie Potter welcomes author Andrew Keen to KBOO's Spring Membership Drive to discuss his book How To Fix The Future.  Call in during the show to pledge your support and get a copy the book. Former Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write ab... Read more

  Linda Olson-Osterlund welcomes Baher Azmy from the Center for Constitutional Rights to discuss Trump's Muslim Ban while it heads to the Supreme Court.  Join the conversation by calling (503) 231-8187 and join KBOO during our Spring Membership Drive by calling (877) 500-K... Read more

  Joint Theresa Mitchell as she welcomes investigative journalist Greg Palast to Presswatch during KBOO's Spring Membership Drive.  Call (877)500-KBOO to pledge your support and get a copy of Greg's book and film The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.  Palast with ACLU Kansas ... Read more

  Ani & Lyn welcome Portland author Alexander Reid Ross to discuss his book Against the Facist Creep and the ongoing efforts of right wing extremists to co-opt social movements. As the election of Donald Trump shows, fascism in all its white nationalist and “alt-right” pe... Read more

  Join KBOO's Lisa Loving as we pay our respects to one of Portland's progressive powerhouses.  Dave Mazza was a long-time KBOO host and editor of the Portland Alliance newspaper.  He passed away this week after entering hospice care.  Call (503) 231-8187 to share your mem... Read more

  Cecil and Celeste welcome Alford A. Young to KBOO to discuss his new book Are Black Men Doomed? during KBOO's Spring Membership Drive.  Call (877) 500-KBOO to pledge your support and get a copy of the book. Life for too many African American men is a battle with extreme ... Read more

Join us May 6th from 9:30-11am at the Oregon Historical Society for a breakfast music event celebrating our station's long history of airing bluegrass music and supporting this music throughout the Pacific Northwest. The hosts from our popular bluegrass radio show, Music Fr... Read more

Dear Members of the KBOO Community, It is with a heavy heart that I tell you that our volunteer, Will Mustoe, passed away suddenly last week.  Will had a huge presence at the station, by providing countless hours at the front desk over the last 8 years.  He touched many pe... Read more