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Single Payer Advocates 'die'

Airs at: Tue, 05/26/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Protesters today feigned death for twenty-two minutes inside of Earl Blumenauer’s office. The protest was in favor of single payer health care, which could save twenty-two thousand lives a year. KBOO’s Peter Shoaf went to the scene.   Read more

Silent Protest in front of Town Hall

Airs at: Sun, 05/24/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Advocates of a single payer healthcare system held a silent protest yesterday at a town hall in forest grove. the event, which focused on healthcare issues, was hosted by senator ron wyden. Kboo’s rebecca Nay spoke with Philip Kauffman from the group Single Payer Action. Read more

Health & Health Care Forum - Dr. Chunhuei Chi

Airs at: Sun, 05/24/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Healthwatch
Host Roberta Hall interviews Dr. Chunhuei Chi, who is from Taiwan. He talks about economic disparities and other social issues that make health in a society worse and about ways that health care can be restructured. He has advised the Taiwanese government as it developed, a... Read more

Privitization of Water Threatens Local Economies.

Airs at: Tue, 05/19/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Privatizing water systems threatens jobs and negatively impacts local economies. Crystal Leighty speaks with Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food and Water Watch.   That was Crystal Leighty speaking with Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food and Waer Watch.   Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 18, 2009

Airs at: Sun, 05/17/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
First, a big Thanks from the Mole to all of you who contributed to KBOO during the just concluded membership drive.  If you forgot to do it, look for the JOIN NOW link at the top of this page.  KBOO and the Mole need your support.  This show features the rabble-rousing musi... Read more

Single Payer Under Arrest

Airs at: Sun, 05/17/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Pediatrician Margaret Flowers was among those arrested for protesting the exclusion of single payer advocates at the recent Senate hearings on health reform.  Here she talks with Bill Resnick about how for-profit health insurance led her to quit her practice and start orga... Read more

Race and Recession

  The current recession is not an equal opportunity crisis. People of color are experiencing job loss, foreclosures and lack of healthcare at alarmingly higher rates than white Americans. These disparities are not a coincidence but rather the result of structur... Read more

interview with alexyss k. tylor, of vpowerTV (part two)!!!

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2009 at 5:00pm
this is part two of an interview with alexyss k tylor, of vpowerTV!!!  (again, please be advised that some language and content here may be deemed objectionable to some)... Read more

interview with alexyss k. tylor, of vpowerTV (part one)!!!

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2009 at 5:00pm
DISCLAIMER: THIS INTERVIEW HAS LANGUAGE AND CONTENT SOME MAY DEEM OBJECTIONABLE.  MUCH DISCRETION IS ADVISED. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- what exactly can one say about alexyss k tylor, without stumblin... Read more

Single payer or public option?

Airs at: Wed, 05/13/2009 at 5:00pm
How to break the insurance industry stranglehold over our health care system?Tom Leedham of Portland Jobs with Justice and Teamsters Local 206 and Betsy Dillner of Health Care for America Now debate the relative merits of the single payer and public option strategies. Peter... Read more