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Health and Health Care Forum David Cay Johnston talks with Roberta Hall about his new book,  DIVIDED. The Perils of our Growing Inequality, and about his 40-plus years as an investigative journalist. Through his career, which includes winning the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for ... Read more

Host Sarika Mehta interviews writer Jean Kwok about her latest work "Mambo in Chinatown".   Jean Kwok immigrated from Hong Kong to Brooklyn when she was five and worked in a Chinatown clothing factory for much of her childhood. She won early admission to Harvard, where s... Read more

Host Stephanie Potter speaks with Justin Kay and Tim Hitchins, organizers of the 2nd Annual Resistance Ecology Conference (2014) taking place this coming weekend, June 27-29, at Portland State University. This conference is free and open to the public. Last year's confer... Read more

From the series Sprouts an interview with the Beehive Design Collective about their third and final image in the Beehive's trilogy about globalization in the Americas, focusing on resistance to mega-infrastructure projects that are literally paving the way for free trad... Read more

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with artist and blogger Danielle Krysa about her new book Creative Block: Get Unstuck, Discover New Ideas: Advice and Projects from 50 Successful Artists. Creative block presents the most crippling—and unfortunately universal—challenge fo... Read more

(Stage and Studio is off today.) Portland resident Dennis Creamer is a principal subject in BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, a new landmark documentary about the first Out generation of LGBT seniors. Dennis is a former Florida resident who came out of the closet in his 70s after th... Read more

Remembering Stonewall by David Isay KBOO presents our annual broadcast of "Remembering Stonewall," which aired first on the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in 1989. On Friday, June 27, 1969, eight officers from the public morals section of the first division New ... Read more

We speak with James Haslam, Executive Director of the Vermont Workers Center, about their Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign.  Since 2008, the Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign has been working to make universal healthcare a reality in Vermont. In 2011, their people’... Read more

On May 23 in Isla Vista, California, 22-year-old Elliot Rodger murdered six people and wounded 13 more. Rodger, in his blog as well as on Youtube, cited women for not giving him attention, sex and love as motivation for his attack. Most media outlets have talked up what ... Read more

Last year we celebrated KBOO's 45th anniversary on the air. Now we are marking the station's 50th year. Huh? It took four years to go from concept to reality. Listen in and learn about KBOO's earliest days -- why the station was created, who was involved, how we got our ... Read more