Activism

Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco: Web-only special content

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Words and Pictures

Best-selling author and foreign correspondent Chris Hedges and comics journalist Joe Sacco tell more stories of their collaboration on the book Days of Destuction, Days of Revolt, as well as their adventures reporting from trouble spots both at home and abroad. Original br... Read more

Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Words and Pictures

Nation Institute Senior Fellow Chris Hedges (American Fascists, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning) and comics journalist Joe Sacco (Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde) have teamed up to produce Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, a sweeping portrait of the American underclass... Read more

Radiozine on 06/15/12

Airs at: Fri, 06/15/2012 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

“Remembering Stonewall”, a documentary produced by David Isay in 1989 to honor the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, an uprising by patrons of a New York gay bar, an event that is often seen as the birth of the gay liberation movement. KBOO broadcasts this documenta... Read more

Matt Bors and Ted Rall

Airs at: Thu, 06/14/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Words and Pictures

In this extended version of Words & Pictures, we welcome Matt Bors and Ted Rall back to the KBOO studios for a freewheeling and often hilarious conversation about the burgeoning field of comics journalism. Two years ago, Matt and Ted had just returned from an unembedded fa... Read more

Addressing Transportation in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 07/25/2011 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Host Cecil Prescod discusses transportation issues in Portland with Dave Wetzel from England. As well as being President of the Labour Land Campaign (www.LabourLand.org), Dave Wetzel FCILT is CEO of 'Transforming Communities' the transport, housing, land tax consultancy he... Read more

Alternative Radio on 09/06/11

Airs at: Tue, 09/06/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

The legacy of Mahatma Gandhi continues in various ways in India. Gandhi had his flaws but as George Orwell wrote: “compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind.” There are multiple struggles for justice and ... Read more

Habitat? or animal rights? T.C. Boyle on his latest novel: "When the Killing's Done"

Airs at: Thu, 09/01/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Host Jim Schumock speaks with T.C. Boyle about his thirteenth novel, When the Killing's Done, which takes up some of the environmental themes of earlier novels such as A Friend of the Earth and The Tortilla Curtain, and stories like “Carnal Knowledge,” “Top of the Food Chai... Read more

Between the Covers on 08/18/11

Airs at: Thu, 08/18/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

Host Jennifer Kemp speaks with Jessica K.Taft, author of Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change across the Americas. Rebel Girls explores how teenage girls construct activist identities, rejecting and redefining girlhood and claiming political authority for youth in ... Read more

Bo Rinaldi on a Plant Based Lifestyle

Airs at: Fri, 07/22/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

Host Robyn Shanti welcomes guest Bo Rinaldi, who calls himself a “bloodless revolutionary” and believes that the only way out of this matrix of Corporatocracy we find ourselves in, is by adopting a plant based lifestyle. Bo is one of the pioneers of the organic movement in ... Read more

Radiozine on 07/21/11

Airs at: Thu, 07/21/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher interviews Sarah Sobieraj, author of Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism. Sobieraj explores the dynamics and costs of media obsession by activist groups. She says the pervasive mediatization of politics has jeopardi... Read more