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Human Rights Defense Center

Airs at: Mon, 06/04/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
Host Emma Lugo interviews Paul Wright of the Human Rights Defense Center about the exorbitant fees prisoners families are being charged just to visit them, as well as catching up on what is happening with immigration detention, prisoner health care and institutional incenti... Read more

The Politics of Living - Episode 14

Airs at: Wed, 04/11/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for The Politics of Living
  April 11, 2018 Inessa Anderson chats with Canadian singer-songwriter, Jennifer Berezan. Jennifer is intent on blurring the artistic boundaries and most importantly, the distinction between musical styles, politics, spiritual life, and environmental activism.  Darka D... Read more

Protecting the Wild Side of Mt. Hood

Airs at: Mon, 06/04/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
Since the 1970s, Mt. Hood Meadows has made multiple attempts to site a destination resort on the North side of Mt. Hood. Local citizens, conservation groups, recreation clubs and communities around Mt. Hood have repeatedly opposed these efforts. After decades of dispute, Co... Read more

Roseanne Canceled...should the NFL be next?

Airs at: Fri, 06/01/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Positively Revolting
  Linda Olson-Osterlund hosts Positively Revolting. Call (503) 231-8187 to join the conversation. In the Washington Post Karen Attiah wrote: It’s time to cancel the NFL and its plantation-style politics.... If you want a modern example of nakedly racist authoritarianism i... Read more

The Women of KBOO

Airs at: Fri, 06/29/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
KBOO Radio began in 1968. 2018 marks 50 years of on-air programming. Join host Barbara Bernstein  and guests Carol Mazer (program director in the mid 70s), Vicki Stoppiello (board president in the late 70s and station manager in the early 80s, who engineered and nurtured th... Read more

All Governments Lie - Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

Airs at: Thu, 05/31/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Presswatch
  Per Fagereng welcomes producer Jeff Cohen to KBOO ahead of the Portland screening of his film All Governments Lie.  Jeff Cohen is the founding Director of the Park Center for Independent Media and Endowed Chair / Associate Professor.  The center’s mission is to study the... Read more

Living With a Small Environmental Footprint

Airs at: Wed, 05/30/2018 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm

On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital

Airs at: Wed, 05/30/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Radiozine
  On this show, as U.S. activists respond to the recent massacre in Gaza by ramping up the Boycott Divestment Sanctions Movement, they are opposing a bill advancing in Congress that would strip Americans of the right to boycott the apartheid state of Israel. We speak to Be... Read more

Project Censored

Airs at: Wed, 05/30/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Political Perspectives
  Discussions on the corporate media's depiction of Russia, a new documentary about 'fake news,' and rising voter discontent.  Hosts: Nolan Higdon, Nicholas Baham III, Desiree McSwain. Producer: Mitch Scorza.  Read more

Killing Youth: How an abusive culture sows the seeds of young male violence, with Prof. Laura Finley

Airs at: Wed, 05/30/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Wednesday Talk Radio
   In her most recent article on school shootings, today's guest Laura Finley wrote: "I never thought this would be my life's work. But writing and speaking about the connections between domestic and dating violence and mass shootings has become an absurd and sickeningly f... Read more