Education

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Naomi Klein in conversation with Jo Ann Hardesty

Airs at: Thu, 07/27/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Naomi Klein joins Jo Ann Hardesty in a wide ranging and engaging discussion.  Recorded in Beaverton at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing. “This is one attempt to uncover how we got to this surreal political moment. It is also an attempt to predict how, under cover o... Read more

OSU demolishes the Corvallis Multi-Lingual Literacy Center, A.K.A. Sunflower House

Airs at: Thu, 07/13/2017 at 4:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Kboo reported earlier this month on Oregon State University’s decision to demolish its adjacent community center, the Corvallis Multi-lingual Literacy Center also known as the Sunflower House. The community center has housed a large portion of OSU’s international programs. ... Read more

Virtual Reality and 3-D Comics

Airs at: Thu, 07/13/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Digital technology is making animation and comics more immersive, and this month's guests are working at the forefront of the movement. Jeremy Rotsztain is creating an audio-visual experience to take place in Portland's Academy Theater.  Inspired by Frederik Kiesler's hi... Read more

Warmongering against North Korea

Airs at: Fri, 07/07/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
             Lyn and guest co-host Linda Olsen Osterlund will be talking with Christine Hong Associate Professor at USC Santa Cruz and executive board member of the Korea Policy Institute, about her piece "The Long, Dirty History of US Warmongering in North Korea" for The ... Read more

Peace in Schools: bringing mindfulness to teens

Airs at: Mon, 07/03/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Healthwatch
  In 2014, the  American Psychological Association deemed teens, during the school year, the most stressed group of people in the United States. Teens experience stress much the way adults do, but do not yet have the skills and mechanisms to effectively work with it. To ad... Read more

Increase Taxes on Large Corporations for Oregon Schools

Airs at: Wed, 06/14/2017 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  The Oregon House is currently considering a bill that would increase taxes on large corporations, in order to provide more money for Oregon schools. Measure ninety seven, which would have taxed the top one percent of corporations in Oregon, failed to pass in November. Si... Read more

CRCI Reading Group Interviews Ibram X. Kendi

Airs at: Mon, 07/10/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On June 21st, the Liberation Literacy reading group at Columbia River Correctional Institution (CRCI) interviewed National Book Award winner and historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi about his book Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Liber... Read more

On Catcalling...

Airs at: Thu, 06/22/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
We have been wanting to do this show for a long time...  Despite the popularity of videos such as the one where a woman walked around New York City for ten hours (and the debate which ensued afterwards), catcalling (or the act of "a loud whistle or a comment of a sexual nat... Read more

Sade Beasley: Between Us

Airs at: Fri, 06/16/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Sade' Beasley is an African American woman who has created art her entire life.  As an adult, her pieces exclusively show every shade and mood of black women and not coincidentally, of herself.  But her portraits aren't the only thing she creates.  Besides aiming to crea... Read more

Four Weeks Five People by Jennifer Yu

Airs at: Wed, 06/14/2017 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Intersections Radio
  Sarika Mehta welcomes Jennifer Yu to KBOO to discuss her novel Four Weeks Five People...Obsessive-compulsive teen Clarissa wants to get better, if only so her mother will stop asking her if she's okay.  Andrew wants to overcome his eating disorder so he can get back to h... Read more