Activism

newsletter_web_banner.png

 

Nakba Day

Airs at: Wed, 05/15/2024 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
  Here at KBOO, we are acknowledging Nakba Day. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians that occurred during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, known as the "Nakba", or "Catastrophe". The anniversary puts the spotlight on one of the world’s... Read more

As Portland Re-envisions Itself

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Portland now has a new form of government and a revamped city council that in many respects represents the new vision that created this change in our city government. But many tensions remain between some of the city council visionaries and an established way of thinking... Read more

Building the World We Believe In

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on June 2, 2025 In these disturbing times as we watch democracy crumble and wonder whom the oligarchs will go after next, how do we ground ourselves in the work we need to keep doing? First they come for the immigrants, then international ... Read more

Chasing Chimeras

Airs at: Mon, 09/01/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on January 27, 2025 As we confront the existential crisis of climate chaos there are two paths we can take. We can make dramatic changes that meaningfully reduce carbon emissions. Or we can accept the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving cl... Read more

Hydrogen Hype

Airs at: Mon, 08/11/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on October 7, 2024 Unpredictable and destructive weather events dramatically illustrate how climate chaos is impacting us right now. Yet while there are real solutions that will enable us to stop emitting greenhouse gases, the fossil fuel ... Read more

Nukes for Needless Energy

Airs at: Mon, 08/04/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on December 23, 2024 As we transition to a truly renewable world two of the things we need less of are more and larger server farms and nuclear power reactors to feed them electricity. Yet that is the plan being hatched by Microsoft, Amazo... Read more

The Ebony Collective CDC Rebroadcast

Airs at: Thu, 07/10/2025 at 8:00am - 9:00am
This is a rebroadcast of a show from last year about the Ebony Collective. They have their first ever fundraiser and open house on Saturday, July 12 from 11am to 3pm. The link to register is right here. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 14, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Marxism and Degrowth: Joe Clement talks with local activist and anarchist scholar, Paul Messersmith-Glavin about degrowth broadly and particularly in the work of Japanese Mar... Read more

Marxism and Degrowth

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with local activist and anarchist scholar, Paul Messersmith-Glavin about degrowth broadly and particularly in the work of Japanese Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito. Paul's review of Saito's book "Marx in the Anthropocene: toward the idea of degrowth comm... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 21, 2025

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  The authoritarianism of the Trump regime calls out for mass radical organizing, but with some exceptions, much of the left has not mounted a coherent response. Journalist Arun Gupta reflects on lessons from the last quarter century – from the Global Justice Movement t... Read more