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You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere else : Mình sẽ luôn là người nọ đến từ nơi nọ

Airs at: Thu, 08/30/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  How to make something vỡ, something broken, something shattered beautiful?  Cách làm cái gì đó vỡ, cái gì đó broken, cái gì đó vụn tan rạng rỡ? In Dao Strom’s collection of poetic fragments, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else,  translated by Ly Thuy Nguyen ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 6, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole, with the following segments: 1. Margaret Klein Salamon of The Climate Mobilization talks with Bill Resnick about the massive WWII-size commitment necessary to deal adequately with climate change. 2. Joe Clement inter... Read more

The Importance of Antonio Gramsci

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  One of the most important thinkers following Marx and who extended our understanding of capitalism and how it shapes our lives was the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Although his life was shortened by a long prison term imposed by Mussolini, his Prison Notebooks contin... Read more

MALCOLM X vs JAMES BALDWIN

Airs at: Tue, 08/07/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  -from OpenCulture.com One often hears lamented the lack of public intellectuals in America today. Very often, the lamenters look back to James Baldwin, who in the 1950s and 1960s wrote such powerful race-, class-, and sex-examining books as Go Tell It on the Mountain, G... Read more

Captain Ahab & U.S. Empire: Chris Hedges

Airs at: Tue, 08/07/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The demonic Captain Ahab in Melville’s epic novel Moby Dick represents a quest for power and domination that is a death wish. Hubris will doom Ahab and his Pequod crew, all perish except for Ishmael. Is there a larger lesson to be learned? Is the United States much diffe... Read more

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice

Airs at: Wed, 08/01/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  In 2008 the United States elected its first black president, and recent polls show that only twenty-two percent of white people in the United States believe that racism is a major societal problem. On the surface, it may seem to be in decline. However, the evidence of di... Read more

The Politics of Living - Episode 18

Airs at: Wed, 08/01/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  The Politics of Living
August 1, 2018   The Politics of Living – August 1, 2018 - 30 minute show   Content Contributors: Rachelle Schmid (Conversations With Elders) Dennise Kowalcyzk (Portland 2003 protests audio) Kristin Thiel (The She Ra Solution) M L lauri (Let's Stop For A Minute) Vicky... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Julie Whipple

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the crash of United Airlines Flight 173, in an empty lot near the corner of Portland’s Northeast 157th Avenue and East Burnside, just about 9 miles from where we are now in our KBOO studios. Our News In Depth guest Julie Whipple not ... Read more

Clinging to Collusion: Joe Lauria

Airs at: Thu, 08/02/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Per welcomes journalist Joe Lauria from ConsortiumNews.com where he wrote: "Charges against 12 Russian intelligence agents for allegedly hacking emails from the Democratic Party during the 2016 presidential election were announced by the U.S. Justice Department on Friday... Read more

The Green Burial Guidebook by Elizabeth Fournier

Airs at: Tue, 07/31/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
  Emily Young talks to author Elizabeth Fournier about her new book The Green Burial Guidebook. Funeral expenses in the United States average more than $10,000. And every year conventional funerals bury millions of tons of wood, concrete, and metals, as well as millions o... Read more