Environment/Climate

The Long and Twisted Tale of Jordan Cove

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

For several years we have been following the long and twisted tale of the Jordan Cove LNG export facility proposed for Coos Bay and its companion Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, which would snake across much of Southern Oregon, carrying fracked gas to Jordan Cove. In the pa... Read more

KBOO Talk Radio: Ralph Nader's articles of Impeachment

Airs at: Thu, 01/30/2020 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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This week on KBOO's Talk Radio Linda Olson-Osterlund takes your calls about Trump's Impeachment and shares audio from Ralph Nader's interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now about the 13 articles in question. Count One: Solicitation of Bribery Count Two: Obstruction o... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 27, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Laurie Mercier hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes: D.A.s for the People: Bill Resnick speaks with Madeline Carroll and Maria Cahill, of Oregon District Attorneys for the People, who are part of a national movement to elect progressive DAs who instead of targe... Read more

Squirrels Know on 01/24/20

Airs at: Fri, 01/24/2020 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Produced for: Squirrels Know

Theme for the show was the Koalas and the Australian Fires. It's hard to smile and be cute when so much disaster keeps happening around the world, but the best way to battle this is with a superbly positive attitude. This is what the thousands of koalas who slowly died in a... Read more

Primates Used For Research In Our Backyard & Can Extinct Sea Otters Make A Comeback?

Airs at: Fri, 01/24/2020 at 10:00am - 10:30am

Produced for: Voices for the Animals

This Friday, January 24th at 10AM it's a new episode of Voices for the Animals on KBOO! Host Michele Coppola will be talking with Oregon State Representative David Gomberg about his visit to the OHSU Oregon National Primate Research Center and editorial in The Oregonian ... Read more

We went to jail for our great-granddaughters

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

For over fifteen years people across Southern Oregon have been living with the specter of the Jordan Cove LNG export facility and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline haunting their lives. Tens of thousands of people have raised their voices in opposition to this project which th... Read more

Buscando America on 01/14/20

Airs at: Tue, 01/14/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Produced for: Buscando America

Javier Sierra habla sobre los incendios forestales que azotan el continente Australiano y sobre el esfuerzo por cerrar plantas carboneras a través de la campaña Más Allá del Carbón. Desde San Cristóbal de las Casas Chiapas las NotiFrayba sobre el Ejido Las Flores donde se ... Read more

Green Jobs

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

In the second part of a two-part interview, Bill Resnick speaks with Sam Gindin, who has spent nearly 50 years working to build radical unions. He is the former Research Director of the Canadian Autoworkers Union and Packer Visiting Chair in Social Justice at York Universit... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 13, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts the Old Mole today and we hear: Green Jobs: Bill Resnick interviews Sam Gindin, who for fifty years has worked to build radical unions. Politics and Secularism: Readings on atheism, morality and politics. Reproductive Rights: Jan Haaken interviews Andra Ca... Read more

Food Town USA

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Organizing around food can address the intersection of many critical social justice issues and transform communities. In his new book, Food Town USA: Seven Unlikely Cities That are Changing the Way We Eat, food writer Mark Winne invites readers on a tour of America’s most s... Read more