Spring Pledge Drive Specials!

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We have some great specials for you from May 6th - 16th!
We love doing these specials, but we're doing them for a reason. We're a member-supported radio station and so a couple times a year, we come to you, the listener for support. We rely on your support because KBOO's ability to remain a vibrant independent source for news, music, community information, and arts reporting absolutely relies on listener support.
Please give now: become a member, renew your membership, or give again. You can give online, or call us at 877-500-5266.

 

Friday, May 15 2015

8:00 AM -
8:00 PM

News and Public Affairs Day!

Featuring Noam Chomsky, Bill Moyers, Winona LaDuke, and more!
 

 

Some of our specials that have already aired:

Ralph Nader, Live by Phone from Washington D.C.!

Join host Paul Roland as he follows up on last week's conversation with Chris Hedges, this week featuring long-time activist, organizer, political reformer and Third Party proponent Ralph Nader.

Nader's new book, just out on Seven Stories Press, is "Return to Sender," a long series of letters to Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, all of which went unanswered.
 

Ona MOVE - 30th anniversary of the police bombing of the MOVE family

KBOO will take this opportunity to reflect back on the extreme violence used by police and federal authorities against people of color who rise up, and look at the current situation.

TPP: OMG!!

Give us the money, Lebowski! It's KBOO's Spring Membership Drive. Why should you support KBOO? Because your grandmother would want you to, and because you can join in conversations like this one with Abe and Joe -- about the treacherous Trans-Pacific Partnership.

 

Glenn Greenwald: Why Privacy Matters

Glenn Greenwald, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, broke the story inThe Guardian of Washington's widespread electronic dragnet. His exclusive interview with NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden was an international media sensation.  He is co-founder of The Intercept, an online investigative news service.

 

Joseph Gallivan interviews Bruce Guenther, the former Chief Curator of the Portland Art Museum

Joseph Gallivan interviews Bruce Guenther, the former Chief Curator of the Portland Art Museum. Mr. Guenther will talk about the state of art in Portland, the state of the Portland Art Museum, and what he has been doing since his retirement last September.

 

TASTY: The Art and Science of What We Eat

On this episode of Locus Focus we learn how taste originated, starting with flavor's primitive stirrings 500 million years, and many millions of years later with the taming of fire, how tools making flavor became the first true catalyst of cultural awakening.

David Perlmutter
Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain for Life
 

MacLaren Youth Journalism Class

Hosts Amy Johnson and Karen James present audio from radio journalism students at the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility.


 

New Show Debut: Lisa Loving Interviews Steve Fraser about The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power.
Jean Ritchie Special

Tune in to Movin' On, Friday, May 8th 12 noon to 1:30pm to hear music from one of the most important musicians playing traditional music.

Richard Heinberg

author of "Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels"

 

Joseph Stiglitz

"The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them"
May Day Redux 2015

Mayday! Mayday!  Workers, immigrants, people of color all under attack in the U.S. right now!  Tune in on Wednesday May 6th for a Mayday redux - including audio from Portland's Mayday on Friday May 1st!