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Press**Watch: News you're not supposed to know

Airs at: Thu, 02/22/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Presswatch

Today we'll be looking at some of the great accomplishments of USA society, like soreading anthrax through beetles that children are likely to handle, conducting interrogations purely for the sake of terror, villages in order to save them, dropping out of the wimpiest possi... Read more

The LNG Terminal that Refuses to Die

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Before oil and coal project proposals started popping up in communities across the Pacific Northwest, plans to build Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) terminals were emerging along the coastline from Oregon to British Columbia. And now that nearly every proposed oil and coal termina... Read more

Librarian Stereotypes

Produced for: Off The Shelf

What's the first thing you think of when you hear the word "librarian"? If you're like most people, the images you conjure up come from a variety of sources, including movies, TV, and popular culture, but they typically don't reflect who librarians are or what kind of work ... Read more

Librarian Stereotypes

Airs at: Wed, 02/28/2018 at 8:45am - 9:45am

Produced for: Off The Shelf

What's the first thing you think of when you hear the word "librarian"? If you're like most people, the images you conjure up come from a variety of sources, including movies, TV, and popular culture, but they typically don't reflect who librarians are or what kind of work ... Read more

Off the Shelf

Produced for: Off The Shelf

What do you think of when you hear the word "librarian"? Chances are the images that you conjure up immediately come from a variety of sources, including movies, TV, books, and other forms of popular culture, but they likely bear little relationship to what librarians do on... Read more

High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything you know about Drugs and Society

Airs at: Wed, 02/21/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

Today, we broadcast our one-hour special with Columbia University Professor of Psychology Carl Hart about his book High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything you know about Drugs and Society. Dr. Hart disputes some of our most bas... Read more

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: LIVE at KBOO!

Airs at: Fri, 02/23/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Positively Revolting

Join Ani as she welcomes Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz to KBOO to discuss her new book LOADED. Call in and join the conversation. Loaded...A Disarming History of the Second Amendment America loves guns. From Daniel Boone and Jesse James, to the NRA and Seal Team 6, gun culture has... Read more

#ENOUGH: National School Walk Out to protest inaction on gun control

Airs at: Wed, 02/21/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

On March 14, the one-month anniversary of the Stoneman Douglas H.S. shooting in Florida, students, teachers, school administrators, parents and allies will take part in a #NATIONALSCHOOLWALKOUT for 17 minutes at 10am across every time zone. https://www.actionnetwork.... Read more

News and Fred Hampton

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel finds the news demoralizing, and offers a clip of Fred Hampton, Sr., speaking at a mock people's trial. Image of Fred Hampton By Fair use, via Wikimedia Commons. Read more

Crime and Punishment in Black America: James Forman Jr.

Airs at: Tue, 02/20/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Critics of the U.S. criminal justice system such as Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stevenson have assailed the rise of mass incarceration with its disproportionate impact on people of color. The war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American le... Read more