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Husayn Means Beauty: The Attraction of the Seventh Century Martyr (1 of 2) (ENCORE)

Airs at: Tue, 10/09/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  This is a rebroadcast of an episode that originally aired in May 2018. I will be attending the pilgrimage to Arbaeen from Najaf to Karbala, Iraq, at the end of October, with a Maulana Mohammad Baig, courtesy of the Husayniah Islamic Society of Seattle.  On April 28th ... Read more

Hear and There: Audio Postcards from Earth

Airs at: Tue, 10/09/2018 at 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
In honor of KBOO's 50th Anniversary and the 20th Anniversary of A Different Nature's 24-Hour Earth Day Broadcast, we are inviting you to join us at the OMSI Kendall Planetarium for Hear and There:  Audio Postcards from Earth Tuesday October 9th at 7:30 PM.   This is an... Read more

The Economics of Funding Public Education

Airs at: Mon, 10/08/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Join us as we speak with Mary King of the Oregon Center for Public Policy.  Mary is a labor economist and Professor Emerita of Economics at Portland State University. She served as Chair of the PSU Economics Department, President of the PSU Chapter of the American Associ... Read more

Climate Change or How to Defeat Medusa: A Conversation with Kathleen Dean Moore

Airs at: Tue, 10/02/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Dr. Kathleen Dean Moore spoke at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Beaverton, Oregon, September 30th, 2018. Hear her address, Bearing Witness (starts at 4:30).  In this interview, she talked with John Shuck about her 2016 book, Great Tide Rising: Calling on Clarity... Read more

TONIGHT 9 pm: Elephant Path Film and Elephant Bai Soundscape

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
Portland filmmaker Todd McGrain's EcoFilm Festival Best Feature winning film, Elephant Path/Njaia Njoku, will be having an encore showing tonight at 9pm as the wrap up to the Portland EcoFilm Festival. Mr. McGrain also worked with Bill McQuay, the recent guest host of thi... Read more

9/11 Unmasked, Part 4: Fran Shure and the Problem of the Media

Airs at: Tue, 09/25/2018 at 12:00am
  This is the fourth of my four-part series on the 9/11 Consensus Panel, whose work was released in book form on September 11th, 2018. [Note: Amazon, as of September 25th, now reports the book as "Temporarily out of stock" even as the publisher says Amazon has many copie... Read more

Insectuality: The Radio Show

Airs at: Sat, 09/29/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
The Press Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--09-24-2018 In Pursuit of Science and Sound:  A Cornell Lab of Ornithology Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellow will be the subject of a three-part series on KBOO radio while the sounds, which are the focus of that research, are fe... Read more

#DisarmPSU Rally

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
A rally and march was hosted today at Portland State University. The outcry comes after Jason Washington, a black man, was gunned down by PSU police officers James Dewey and Shawn McKenzie in late June. The mission of the event was to bring justice for Washington and pre... Read more

Looking Ahead to the Portland Psychedelic Conference

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    The First Annual Portland Psychedelic Conference is coming up on October 27th, at the Alberta Abbey in Northeast Portland. KBOO reporter Sam Bouman sat down today with an organizer and two of the speakers who will be at the conference to find out more. Doctor Aliss... Read more

How Capitalism Works: Yanis Varoufakis

Airs at: Tue, 09/25/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
​ The latest phase of Capitalism, neoliberalism, has left a train wreck in its wake. It’s produced a new Gilded Age. The gap between theoretical Capitalism and its actual workings is jaw dropping. The chasm is a far cry from the courses in economics taught in colleges a... Read more