Immigration

Deportation Nation

Airs at: Mon, 01/19/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Luisa Martinez speaks with immigration lawyer and activist Daniel Kanstroom about the political economy of labor migration, the historical antecedents of current US immigration policy, the racialization of immigration enforcement, and immigration policy through the lense... Read more

Yes, Superman is an Immigrant

Airs at: Mon, 01/19/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
When "Superman", the latest film adaptation of our iconic superhero, was released earlier this year, right-wing commentators maligned it for being too politicized. In response, Andrew Slack and Jose Antonio Vargas published a piece, which appeared in the Hollywood Report... Read more

Buscando America on 01/13/26

Airs at: Tue, 01/13/2026 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Escucha lo que pasó en la Vigilia We Protect Us en Terry Shrunk Plaza.  Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 19, 2026

Airs at: Mon, 01/19/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  The Reverend Martin Luther King once said: "We may have all come on different ships, but now we're in the same boat." Were he alive, MLK would have been the first to condemn the state terror campaign currently inflicted on our immigrant communities. Surely he would ha... Read more

Resisting The Empire

Airs at: Mon, 01/12/2026 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Resisting the Empire. Cities across the United States are under siege by an out-of-control autocratic federal government and its gun-toting goons. So far in the month of January, a federal agent named Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Nicole... Read more

Genius Box: "The Frog is on the boil"

Airs at: Fri, 01/09/2026 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Genius Box
  I think it's time we get out of this pot, how about you?  On this episode of Genius Box, we're talking with our callers about the Border Patrol shooting of two Portland residents on Thursday, January 8th. Hundreds attended a vigil that night, and city and state leaders... Read more

News In Depth: Portland City Council's Presidential Debate Interrupted by News of Border Patrol Shooting, and the Global Citizen International Digest

Airs at: Thu, 01/08/2026 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
  On this edition of KBOO News in Depth:  Midday Thursday, Portland City Council resumed its second day of debate over who should be the next Council President, after an 8 hour meeting the day before with repeated deadlocked votes between sitting Council President Elana ... Read more

Buscando America on 01/06/26

Airs at: Tue, 01/06/2026 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Programa musical con poemas y notas relevantes. Read more

Six Months of ICE Protests in Portland

Airs at: Wed, 12/31/2025 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  On June 04th, activists in Portland, Oregon, began demonstrating in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Facility at the intersection of Macadam Avenue and S Bancroft Street.  The protests were in response to an escalation of deportation tactics from the ... Read more

Judith Arcana, 1943-2025, a Lifelong Troublemaker

The left community lost one of its stalwarts on winter solstice of 2025. Judith Arcana was a writer, poet, teacher and feminist activist. She is most well known for being one of the Janes, a pre-Roe, underground collective in Chicago that provided 11,000 illegal, but saf... Read more