Civil Rights/Human Rights

What It Takes to Win: Kshama Sawant

Airs at: Tue, 05/09/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Kshama Sawant is a member of the Socialist Alternative. She was elected to the Seattle City Council in 2013. She is the first socialist to win a citywide election in Seattle since 1916. She was reelected in 2015. In times of despair and distress there may be the temptati... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for May 8, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 05/08/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge hosts and we hear about -- How the US has provoked North Korea; How policing protects class oppression; What's really wrong with inequality; The racial casting of "The Handmaid's Tale"; activist events this week. Listen to and share individua... Read more

Youth Advocacy in Pakistan

Airs at: Sun, 05/07/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am

Produced for: Century Of Lies

This week on Century Of Lies, we hear from Wiqas Ahmad, a drug policy reform activist and youth advocate based in Pakistan. Plus, skeletons in Congressman Tom Marino's closet have popped the White House's trial balloon about Marino becoming the next Drug Czar, and a leaked ... Read more

Women Activists Call on Trump to Initiate Regional Peace Talks with North Korea

Airs at: Mon, 05/08/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

"The United States, as I understand it, has made a precondition for talks with North Korea, that they must get rid of their nuclear weapons stockpile before talks can begin. For North Korea, as they view it, that's a nonstarter." – Christine Ahn, founder and internation... Read more

Kent State Massacre Anniversary

Airs at: Thu, 05/04/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm

Produced for: Evening News

Hundreds of students, survivors and supporters gathered today on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio – forty seven years after US National Guard soldiers killed four students protesting the Vietnam War. KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg spoke with some of them about their memo... Read more

Executive Order Takes Aim at Johnson Amendment

Airs at: Thu, 05/04/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm

Produced for: Evening News

Today is the National Day of Prayer in the US, and the president marked the occasion by releasing an executive order that aims to weaken a longstanding law against politicking by religious groups. The so-called Johnson Amendment—named after then-Senator Lyndon Johnson—pr... Read more

Mother's Day Behind Bars

Airs at: Mon, 05/08/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Cecil and Celeste welcome Pat Rumer from the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice (IMIrJ) to discuss the annual road trip and vigil to support mothers and families affected by detention. “Answering the call of faith… Radical Accompaniment in difficult times” Sat... Read more

Justice Deferred

Airs at: Wed, 05/10/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

This is a special KBOO program that we bring you to illustrate the story of a Portland citizen, whose relationship with the Portland Police Bureau and City of Portland bureaucracy spells out a tragic and very real dynamic present in our city. Citizen Justice Deferred is th... Read more

Margot Black of Portland Tenants United on Rent Control

Airs at: Wed, 05/03/2017 at 5:00pm - 6:45pm

KBOO's Joe Meyer speaks with Margot Black of Portland Tenants United about tenants' rights including: 1) The state-wide ban on rent control 2) C. Hales as an effective lobbist for trailer park land owners 3) Today's Portland City Council 4) M Black's own trajectory thr... Read more

Phemenology and KBOO

Every where I go people are talking about community. Two years ago it seemed an easier concept- one without too many contradictions and one that as individuals we could rally around. Surely, we were fighting for the same things but then if we were fighting, then didn’t t... Read more