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The Politics of Living - Episode 5

Airs at: Wed, 07/05/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  The Politics of Living
  July 5, 2017 On today's show:   Trackers Earth offers adult & youth outdoor programs.   Their co-founder, Molly Deis, joined contributors Tave Fasce Drake and Brian Delaney in the studio for a discussion of nature skills, the connection between literature and learn... Read more

DI Squared: Episode 2, A Moving Story

Airs at: Thu, 06/08/2017 at 3:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
We now go to KBOO news volunteer Tom Flynn, with his weekly segment D-I Squared—Dream It, Do It.  In this episode we tell the story of Portland Movers, a company formed by a man who came to Portland from Africa.  It's a company owned by a husband and wife team. Read more

Peace in Schools: bringing mindfulness to teens

Airs at: Mon, 07/03/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Healthwatch
  In 2014, the  American Psychological Association deemed teens, during the school year, the most stressed group of people in the United States. Teens experience stress much the way adults do, but do not yet have the skills and mechanisms to effectively work with it. To ad... Read more

On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital

Airs at: Fri, 06/30/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  This packed show is all about resisting the normalization of war abroad and at home, resisting the idea that militarism, police terror and hate crimes will accepted as part of a new hyper reality. We hear voices from among the hundreds that gathered in DC for a vigil for... Read more

DI Squared: Episode 4, Dirty Bastard

Airs at: Tue, 06/20/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
Episode 4 of DI Squared, an interview with the founder of 'Dirty Bastard', a company that sells men's shaving products. This is a program in which we put the word "Entrepreneur" under a microscope, and find out what it is that spells success for someone that starts a busin... Read more

The Historic Black Williams Project

Airs at: Tue, 06/27/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
  KBOO's Eric Bartels speaks to Kayin Talton Davis...the project manager of The Black Williams Project. N Williams/Albina was Portland’s largest African American community. The goal of the Black Williams Project is to highlight this history, through a multimedia public ar... Read more

CRCI Reading Group Interviews Ibram X. Kendi

Airs at: Mon, 07/10/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On June 21st, the Liberation Literacy reading group at Columbia River Correctional Institution (CRCI) interviewed National Book Award winner and historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi about his book Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Liber... Read more

Demystifying Demons

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jan Haaken interviews Old Mole Clayton Morgareidge about his new book Demystifying Demons: Rethinking Who and What We Are.  Working on the boundary of philosophy and psychoanalysis, it's a volume that one reviewer has called "a spiritual book for atheists" and an "engagi... Read more

ON COMMON GROUND

Airs at: Tue, 06/27/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
  Guest host Sarika Mehta will be LIVE in studio for this Intersections Radio episode, with Subashini Ganesan (New Expressive Works) and Amna Mawaz Khan (Theatre Wallay). Both are Bharatanatyam dancers - Suba is local, and Amna is from Pakistan. They'll be chatting up this... Read more

Hello Vancouver May 30, 2017

Airs at: Sat, 06/24/2017 at 6:15am - Sun, 06/24/2018 at 6:15am
Produced for:  Hello Vancouver
In this episode of Hello Vancouver, host Temple Lentz talks with the founders of Office Mom and Dads, a program for kids in the foster care system; Ronnie Noize from the DIY Marketing Center; Michelle Bart from NWCAVE and Robin Helm from Gift of Lift. Music from local band ... Read more