Activism

24sd_1678x281.png

KBOO is open to the public! To visit the station, contact your staff person or call 503-231-8032.


Socialism Rising

Airs at: Mon, 10/01/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Dianne Feeley, a writer, editor, and organizer active in environmental, labor, feminist, and housing struggles in Detroit. They discuss the current political scene, featuring an angry electorate and insurgencies threatening to split both the Democrat... Read more

Buscando America on 10/02/18

Airs at: Tue, 10/02/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Javier Sierra habla sobre el escándalo sobre abuso sexual en el Tribunal Supremo del País. José Luís Espinoza nos habla del proyecto de Sisters of the Road, un esfuerzo en Down Town Portland para erradicar el abuso y la opresion en todas sus formas.  Read more

Climate Change or How to Defeat Medusa: A Conversation with Kathleen Dean Moore

Airs at: Tue, 10/02/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Dr. Kathleen Dean Moore spoke at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Beaverton, Oregon, September 30th, 2018. Hear her address, Bearing Witness (starts at 4:30).  In this interview, she talked with John Shuck about her 2016 book, Great Tide Rising: Calling on Clarity an... Read more

American Sign Language at Occupy ICE

Airs at: Mon, 10/01/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    In the first of a two-part segment, Desiree Hellegers interviews American Sign Language interpreter Andrew Tolman about the nationally ground-breaking work of providing sustained access for deaf and hard of hearing activists involved in OccupyICE Portland. A transcrip... Read more

TONIGHT 9 pm: Elephant Path Film and Elephant Bai Soundscape

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
Portland filmmaker Todd McGrain's EcoFilm Festival Best Feature winning film, Elephant Path/Njaia Njoku, will be having an encore showing tonight at 9pm as the wrap up to the Portland EcoFilm Festival. Mr. McGrain also worked with Bill McQuay, the recent guest host of this ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for October 1, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 10/01/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This episode is hosted by Thom Becker, and features these segments: 1. An interview with Diane Feeley, a Detroit activist, on environmental, labor, feminist and housing issues. 2. In the first of a two-part segment, Desiree Hellegers interviews American Sign Language in... Read more

Defending Transgender Clients

Airs at: Mon, 10/01/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Transgender people are incarcerated at over three times the rate of the general population in the United States. The reality for trans people of color is even more harrowing: 25% of Latino/a trans people, 30% of American Indian trans people, and 47% of Black trans people ar... Read more

Washington State Initiative 1631

Airs at: Mon, 10/01/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
On November 6 Washington State voters will have a chance to vote on an initiative that would put a fee on the state’s largest polluters, including the oil industry and utilities that have not switched over to clean energy. These fees will be used to protect that state's cle... Read more

Live in Studio: DANBERT NOBACON! PIÑÉN!

Airs at: Wed, 10/17/2018 at 10:00pm - Thu, 10/18/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Life During Wartime
From Twisp, WA by way of Chumbawamba comes DANBERT NOBACON! He'll play first! Then, from Barcelona, Spain comes PIÑÉN! The DIY space in London described them like this: "Hardcore Radikal from Barcelona. This two piece pick up where FIRMEZA 10 left off. Their ideas and the... Read more

#WhyIDidntReport Time to Break the Silence

Airs at: Fri, 09/28/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Like so many, the Kavanaough hearings sent me into a tailspin of a PTSD trigger zone.  In so many ways, I can relate to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's experience, as runs quite close to my own.   Like so many others, for years I blamed myself for my own rape. How could I tel... Read more