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Mac Smiff, Cory Elia and Michael Stephenson on Policing Justice at PICA

Airs at: Thu, 02/15/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Our guests are Cory Elia, Mac Smiff, they are journalists who agitate for social change. Michael Stephenson is a fine artist. They’re all part of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art series on Policing Justice. Read more

Human Rights and the World Drug Situation

Airs at: Wed, 02/14/2024 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Human Rights and the World Drug Situation. The United Nations Human Rights Council on February Fifth held an Intersessional panel discussion on human rights challenges in addressing and countering all aspects of the world drug situation. We hea... Read more

Small Modular Nuclear Reactors at Hanford

Airs at: Mon, 04/08/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The Hanford Nuclear Reservation is one of the most polluted places on the planet. Its legacy from nearly a half-century of Plutonium production has left a toxic stew of radioactive and chemical waste that will remain hazardous for tens of thousands of years. But while the U... Read more

Landback and Native land stewardship, with co-host Jacqueline Keeler

Airs at: Wed, 02/14/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
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Interview with Street Roots: Are efforts of dismantle Measure 110 premature?

Airs at: Wed, 02/07/2024 at 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  News In Depth, Evening News
  In the first week of Oregon's short legislative session, drug policy, specifically measure 110, is a hot button issue. Measure 110 is Oregon's Drug Decriminalization Measure, which has been controversial. While proponents of changes to the law say that the need to respon... Read more

Interview with Jamie McLeod-Skinner

Airs at: Thu, 02/15/2024 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Join us Thursday, February 15 at 9:30 am as KBOO Board President Emma Lugo speaks with Jamie McLeod-Skinner, candidate for the 5th Congressional District in Oregon.  In 2022 McLeod-Skinner barely lost the race for the newly reshaped 5th District to Republican Lori Chavez-De... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 12, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 02/12/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast from Against the Grain. What insights into Israel/Palestine, and what visions for the region, were articulated by Edward Said? Under what conditions did the Palestinian-American scholar, critic, and ... Read more

Research into Oregon drug users shows minimal influence of decriminalization on behaviors

Airs at: Tue, 02/06/2024 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth, Evening News
  Oregon lawmakers are back in Salem of the next 5 weeks for the short legislative session. Their priorities include housing, homelessness and Measure 110, Oregon's drug decriminalization measure. Lawmakers announced plans to recriminalize the possession of small amounts o... Read more

Measure 1-10, Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization measure

Airs at: Fri, 02/09/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine, News In Depth
  The Oregon legislative session began on Monday February 5th.   Lawmakers have just 5 weeks to address what they hope to accomplish, and one big agenda item is Measure 1-10, Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization measure. In 2020, voters passed the measure to decriminalize the p... Read more

Joe Sacco: Footnotes in Gaza - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 02/08/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  As part of the 20th anniversary commemoration of Words and Pictures, we revisit our January 2010 conversation with Portland artist and self-styled "war junkie" Joe Sacco. Sacco has carved out a niche in the publishing world for his war reportage comics.  For more than t... Read more