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Trouble-making in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 04/24/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In the aftermath of the November election, Unions are facing a host of challenges. On April 8th 2017 Labor Notes was in town for the Portland Troublemakers School to help union members and Organizers understand and learn to fight back against such challenges as Right to Wor... Read more

Immigrant Latino Wood Framers Organize for Power

Airs at: Mon, 04/24/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
The Portland area carpenters union, UBC local 1503, is throwing their weight behind an immigrant workers organizing drive.  Marcus Rodriguez,  a carpenter and organizer with local 146, and Jason Sheckler, vice president of local 1503, will discuss the opportunities and chal... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour April 17, 2017

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes Host Denise Morris talks with Margot Black about HB 2004 a proposed bill to end no-cause evictions and prevent massive rent hikes with rent control measures. Margot Black is a founding member of Portland T... Read more

Labor Education Resource Center: A Participatory Learning Experience

Airs at: Mon, 04/03/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Join hosts Tina Turner-Morfitt, Dr. Audrey Terrell,  and Ms. Deborah Hall in a discussion with Sherman Henry,  the new Career Instructor for the Labor Education and Research Center also known as LERC. LERC was established in 1977 at the University of Oregon. LERC serves as ... Read more

Cesar Chavez Day Special Programming

Airs at: Fri, 03/31/2017 at 5:00pm - 8:00pm
This Friday, 3/31, is the birthday and nationally-recognized holiday (since 2014) to acknowledge UFW founder and farm labor organizing champion, Cesar Chavez.   KBOO will be airing Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta speeches from our archives, and from those of sister statio... Read more

10 Steps to End Mass Incarceration in America

Airs at: Thu, 03/30/2017 at 8:00am - Fri, 03/31/2017 at 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
   Howell Woltz speaks from personal experience. He was arrested, illegally denied bail, and unlawfully held for seven years by the U.S. Government, though never convicted in or by any court of jurisdiction. Woltz vividly illustrates each of his suggested reforms with rive... Read more

Healing the Health Care Blues

Airs at: Mon, 03/27/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
The TrumpDoesn'tCare Act has gone down in flames.  Will universal, single-payer Medicare for All rise to replace it?  Norman Sylvester, master blues musician and organizer, along with Betsy Zucker, nurse and union activist, talk about the state of health care politics and "... Read more

Reforming PPB: Kathleen Saadat

Airs at: Mon, 03/20/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  In June of 2016 Kathleen Saadat resigned her position as chair of a community panel created to help monitor Portland police reforms in the wake of a federal justice investigation. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in a family committed to justice and education, Ka... Read more

Lincoln County Aerial Spray Ban Measure on May Ballot

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
A group in Lincoln County, Oregon, has put a measure on the May ballot that would ban aerial spraying of pesticides and herbicides. Lincoln County Community Rights wrote Measure 21-177, which also includes language reinforcing the rights of the community—that is, Lincoln Co... Read more

guess who's coming to radio??!! on 03/09/17

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
  Part 2 of Guess Who's Coming to Radio from  3/9/17 Catch the first hour here: http://kboo.fm/media/56313-fuller-conversation-dr-jared-ball-and-music-al-jarreau Read more