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KBOO community radio has been bringing diverse communities together for forty years.  We offer over twenty hours per day of programs that are produced locally by volunteer community members.  This is critical for having local voices on the airwaves at a time when media ownership is consolidating and the remaining local entities turn to syndicated programs.  Furthermore we offer genuine diversity.  In a city that is over three-quarters white, we offer programming by and for Asian, African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and those from many other backgrounds.  We put youth (with a part-time youth coordinator assisting), veterans, and the disabled on the air.  And we bring these communities together on and off the air!

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Forgiving the Unforgivable

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Bread and Roses
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Sun, 12/16/2012

Forgiving the Unforgivable? We explore Gov. Kitzhaber's recent decision to halt executions in Oregon with author Naseem Rakha whose book The Crying Tree grew out of her experiences as a journalist covering Oregon's last executions, and her research speaking with crime victims and Death Row inmates. Learn more: naseemrakha.com

60:22 minutes (55.27 MB)
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Houseless for the Holidays

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Right 2 Survive
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Fri, 12/14/2012
53:21 minutes (36.64 MB)
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Colombian GM Worker Leader Visits Detroit to Seek Solidarity from the UAW

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Labor Radio
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Mon, 05/28/2012

Jorge Parra, president of ASOTRECOL, the Association of Sick Workers and Ex-Workers of GM Colombia, talks with UAW staff at Solidarity House in Detroit.  GM kicked these workers to the curb after they were hurt on the job, and they then occupied the curb - the one across the street from the U.S. embassy in Bogotá - where they have remained continuously since August.

13:15 minutes (12.13 MB)
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Day 5 East County teachers strike

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Labor Radio
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Fri, 05/25/2012

Day five of the Reynolds teachers strike was calm compared with earlier in the week.  Teachers rallied for a few hours in the morning and waited for the results of a mediation/ negotiation session.  Despite union agreement to the district's economic demands earlier in the week, the school board continues to insist on dramatic takeaways in working conditions and basic union rights.  Labor reporter Jamie Partridge talks with strike organizer Emily Crumm, a kindergarten teacher at Alder Elementary School.

7:35 minutes (10.42 MB)
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Police Arrest 12 at Post Office Rally

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Fri, 05/25/2012

Police arrested 12 people at the University Station Post Office in downtown portland, yesterday. Nearly a hundred people were at the demonstration, protesting cuts to the United States Postal Service and calling for Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe’s resignation. Portland Police made the arrests at about 7:30, an hour and a half after the station was supposed to close.

6:03 minutes (2.77 MB)
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From Palestine to the Pacific Northwest - The Nakba, Dispossession and Our Neighbors' Memories of Lost Homes.

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Fri, 05/25/2012

From Palestine to the Pacific Northwest - The Nakba, Dispossession and Our Neighbors' Memories of Lost Homes.

 
This week on One Land, Many Voices, we hear personal and family histories of the Nakba from Palestinians now living in Oregon. Joining Will and Wael are Chris Barghout, Mary Trolan, Frank Afranji and Abid Saadeh. 
 
50:40 minutes (23.19 MB)
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Bombs, Dollars & Executive Decrees: The U.S. in Yemen

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A Deeper Look
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Thu, 05/24/2012

These are the tools the Obama administration is using in Yemen. Are they stabilizing the transition to Democracy or an attempt to stop Yemen's Arab Spring before real democracy can take hold and assure a place for the US Military to expand on the Arab Peninsula? Join host Linda Olson-Osterlund and her guest, Yemeni American human rights activist Ibraham Qatabi. They discuss the role of the U.S. in Yemen, Al Qaeda on the Arab Penisula and more!

28:48 minutes (26.37 MB)
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DiaTribe: From The Village To The Street

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Talk Radio
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Wed, 05/23/2012

 Hosted by Lisa Loving

 

55:47 minutes (51.07 MB)
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Hosts Cecil and Celeste interview Reverand Lennox Yearwood Jr., CEO of The Hip Hop Caucus

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More Talk Radio
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Wed, 05/23/2012

Hosts Cecil and Celeste interview Reverand Lennox Yearwood Jr., CEO of The Hip Hop Caucus

Over the past three years the Hip Hop Caucus has been successfully bridging the gap between our communities and the green movement. One Planet. One Voice. is our new global green campaign. The Hip Hop Caucus works to improve the conditions of our communities by empowering young leaders and linking them to policymakers. From getting out the vote to working with the White House, Congress, State Houses, Mayors and City Councils, we push to create a better future for our country.

39:55 minutes (36.54 MB)
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Virginia Prisoners Unite For Hunger Strike

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Evening News
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Wed, 05/23/2012

On Tuesday, May 22nd, up to 45 inmates began a hunger strike to protest conditions at Virginia's Red Onion State Prison. They are demanding that prison officials provide medical care, nutritional food, and access to complaint and greivance forms. The Human Rights Watch issued a report in 1999, only a year after the Super-Max prison opened, claiming the facility failed to embrace laws protecting inmates from abusive or cruel treatment.

KBOO's Zeke Harrington spoke with John Mac Gaskin, a former inmate of Red Onion State Prison who now works with Solidarity With Virginia Prison Hunger Strikes.

5:36 minutes (5.13 MB)
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