Government/Politics

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GREEN JOBS & INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S STRIKE

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Camilo Marquez, representing the Portland Climate Action Community Benefits Initiative, will discuss this local GREEN JOBS 2018 ballot initiative which trains and employs workers from marginalized communities to weatherize and solarize homes and businesses, funded by a surc... Read more

Progressive parking policies urged by Portlanders for Parking Reform

Airs at: Wed, 02/28/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
  Portlanders for Parking Reform (PPR) is a grassroots advocacy group focused on implementing progressive parking policies to encourage more affordable housing, increase use of alternative transportation modes, and take action on climate change. Policy victories have inclu... Read more

High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything you know about Drugs and Society

Airs at: Wed, 02/21/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Today, we broadcast our one-hour special with Columbia University Professor of Psychology Carl Hart about his book High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything you know about Drugs and Society. Dr. Hart disputes some of our most bas... Read more

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: LIVE at KBOO!

Airs at: Fri, 02/23/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Join Ani as she welcomes Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz to KBOO to discuss her new book LOADED.  Call in and join the conversation. Loaded...A Disarming History of the Second Amendment America loves guns. From Daniel Boone and Jesse James, to the NRA and Seal Team 6, gun culture has... Read more

#ENOUGH: National School Walk Out to protest inaction on gun control

Airs at: Wed, 02/21/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    On March 14, the one-month anniversary of the Stoneman Douglas H.S. shooting in Florida, students, teachers, school administrators, parents and allies will take part in a #NATIONALSCHOOLWALKOUT for 17 minutes at 10am across every time zone. https://www.actionnetwork.... Read more

News and Fred Hampton

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    Frann Michel finds the news demoralizing, and offers a clip of Fred Hampton, Sr., speaking at a mock people's trial.   Image of Fred Hampton By Fair use, via Wikimedia Commons. Read more

Jill Gentile on Trump

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jan Haaken talks with psychoanalyst Jill Gentile about the dynamics behind Trump's sexist and racist propoganda. Gentile is a faculty member at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and author of Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice ... Read more

Crime and Punishment in Black America: James Forman Jr.

Airs at: Tue, 02/20/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Critics of the U.S. criminal justice system such as Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stevenson have assailed the rise of mass incarceration with its disproportionate impact on people of color. The war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American le... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for February 19, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    On this especially varied hour, Bill Resnick hosts, and we hear these segments: Jan Haaken talks with psychoanalyst, professor, and author Jill Gentile about Trump Bill Resnick talks with Bob Peterson about attacks on public education Frann Michel finds solace in th... Read more

Fighting To Save Lives

Airs at: Sun, 02/18/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
An effort in the state of Colorado to prevent overdose deaths suffered a setback in the Colorado Legislature on February 14. The Co Senate's State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee held a hearing on Senate Bill 40, a measure "providing immunity for individuals who p... Read more