Cecil and Celeste welcome your calls. This program is open to local, national and international issues ranging from poverty in Portland to politics in Africa.
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The War on Women and Their Reproductive Rights!
From the recent Planned Parenthood victory over the Komen Foundation to
Obama and the Bishops the war against a women's rights to reproductive
freedom is heating up! Join Kboo host Linda Olson-Osterlund and her guest
David...
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Hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey speak with Michael Shuman about his new
book "Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to
Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity--A Resilient Communities Guide" (from
Chelsea Green.)
Michael Shuman is di...
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In the controversial public debate over modern American families, the vast
changes in family life--the rise of single, two-paycheck, and same-sex
parents--have often been blamed for declining morality and unhappy children.
Drawing upon pioneering research with the...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Janice Thompson, executive
director of Common Cause, Oregon, about money in politics.
In the landmark 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision
the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment prohibi...
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Hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey interview Robert Applebaum, founder of
Founder of ForgiveStudentLoanDebt.com, a grassroots movement that began as a
proposal entitled "Forgive Student Loan Debt to Stimulate the Economy" which
he posted to a Facebook group by the...
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Host Cecil Prescod speaks with Angela Martin, Executive director of Economic
Fairness Oregon, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to
consumer protection and fair lending laws. They will discuss a financial
system built to work for the people, not against th...
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Guest host Marianne Barisonek interviews Bev Harris of the non-profit
elections watchdog group BlackBoxVoting about the latest elections problems
including the omission of valid voters from "who can vote" lists,
particularly young and black voters.
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Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with attorney James Otto, who has filed a
lawsuit demanding that Americans have equal access to American jobs. He is
co-author, (with Ilene Proctor), of the article "Where Have All The Jobs
Gone?" They say that American corporations are bet...
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Misperceptions About Economics, Health, Discrimination May Skew Politics,
Fuel Conflicts
Host Cecil Prescod speaks with Daniel Byrd, research director at the
Greenlining Institute and lead author of their new report which finds a huge
gulf in perceptions between black an...
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Host Cecil Prescod speaks with Steve Fraser, historian of Wall Street and
author of "Wall Street: America's Dream Palace." Steve Fraser has a current
article on TomDispatch.com called "Take Our Children, Please! A Modest
Proposal for Occupy Wall Street” htt...
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