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James and Nate talk with Stephen Jacobs, a Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Interactive Games and Media and Scholar in Residence at The Strong National Museum of Play. We talk about how one finds themself as a scholar of games and play, the origina... Read more

As Trump's second term begins to take shape, Traci and Abe check in with the clown show that could be his Cabinet. Also -- how we can resist, and how we can look after ourselves and our communities. Read more

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A nostalgic look back at the railroads tonight. Robert Jefferson reads about the joys of  reading the Railroad Guide which listed all the active train lines in the US. The featured story is a reairing of our 3D Radio Production of The Night Run Of the Overland. When her hus... Read more

Please join us on Monday, November 18th at 6:00 pm for Prison Pipeline on KBOO Community Radio as we talk with Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party.  On September 12, 2024, a federal jury in Tampa returned a contradictory and nonsensical verdict... Read more

A program of favorite songs and stories are on the menu today. Featured, will be former KBOO News Director Robert Jefferson reading "The Railway Guide" by Christopher Morely, A rememberance of the many railroad lines that connected the towns and cities of America. Listen fo... Read more

For seven years Portland community members have been trying to shut down Zenith Energy, a Houston-based oil company that sneaked into Portland in 2017. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality just opened the public comment period for Zenith’s draft Air Contaminant Di... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Palestine Exception: After years of right-wing assaults on higher education, attacks took a new form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As stud... Read more

Joe Hill was a beloved member of the IWW, a songwriter and activist who is known for such labor classics as “The Preacher and the Slave,” “There is Power in a Union,” and “Rebel Girl.” In 1914 he was convicted of a murder the evidence suggests he did not commit. Tomorrow ma... Read more

What role might be played in political struggle by cultural creations? A new novel, Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad, raises this question doubly: both as a novel set in current struggles and in the story it recounts about the contested effort to mount a theatre production in... Read more