Civil Liberties

MLK Tribute Day

Airs at: Sun, 01/18/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Radiozine

A preview of today's 24th Annual Tribute to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Keep Alive the Dream." The celebration airs live until 7:00pm when Hard Knock Radio will provide more coverage. Listen to the live audio stream here Also Yugen Rashad speaks with local people wh... Read more

Siddharth Kara: author of Sex Trafficking: Inside The Business of Modern Slavery

Airs at: Mon, 01/12/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Host Linda Olson-Osterlund interviews Siddharth Kara author of the new book Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. His book chronicles his travels around the globe to investigate the business of sex slavery in the world today. He brings us... Read more

The Permitted Coup

It is the Season to review. Review the past year and the almost past Bush administration, that is.. The media and many people I know seem eager to believe that the new Obama Administraion will bring a fundamental change to the functioning of the Federal government... Read more

Gay Racism and Black Homophobia - Part 2.

Airs at: Mon, 01/05/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Gender Blender

Rebecca Nay is joined by KBOO's Jamilah Bourdon and a close local friend named Aswad. We had a frank and honest discussion about Homophobia in the Black Community and Racism in the Gay Community. Originally recorded on 11/28/08. Read more

Gay Racism and Black Homophobia

Airs at: Thu, 11/27/2008 at 12:00am

Produced for: Gender Blender

Rebecca Nay is joined by KBOO's Jamilah Bourdon and a close local friend named Aswad. We had a frank and honest discussion about Homophobia in the Black Community and Racism in the Gay Community. Click here to listen to Part 2. Read more

LNG Protest in Salem

Airs at: Mon, 01/12/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Air Cascadia

Shockin n Rollin

Once again, Digby nails it. The fundamental purpose of the shock doctrine is to use crisis to push through unpopular and unjust "solutions" that favor the wealthy. We are seeing this battle take shape on several fronts. The right is working feverishly to discredit the N... Read more

Cruel and Unusual

Airs at: Sun, 01/11/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

One of the producer/directors of the award winning film, “Cruel and Unusual”, Janet Baus gave Prison Pipeline a telephone interview. We discussed the problems that transgender prisoners must face. The conversation between Janet, Rebecca (our KBOO engineer) and Ruth (PP H... Read more

Books to Prisoners

Airs at: Sun, 01/04/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Jonathan Farbowitz and Alex Fish from Books for Prisoners gave us an update about the program. Books to Prisoners P.O. Box 11222 Portland, OR 97211 pdxbookstoprisoners@riseup.net pdxbookstoprisoners.org Volunteer Nights are Mondays & Tuesdays 5:30-8pm. at 1112 NE Morton St. ... Read more

Index of leading asshattery indicators

I love Harper's Index. For those of you not familiar with it, Harper's Index appears near the front of every edition of Harper's magazine. It presents a sort of snapshot of current affairs by way of assembling a bunch of seemingly obscure, but ultimately telling, statis... Read more