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Please join us on Monday, September 15th at 6:30 pm on KBOO Community Radio for Prison Pipeline as we talk with actor Paul Susi and composer Anna Fritz about their performance of An Illiad which has been travelling to correctional facilities around Oregon and is about to... Read more

Please join us on Monday, September 15tht at 5:30 pm on KBOO Community Radio for KBOO News In Depth this week with Moira Marquis about Prisoned Banned Books Week Sept 15th -21st. This national campaign aims to raise awareness that prisons are the largest censors in the U... Read more

Fortunato returns once again to help raise meembership with a music filled two hours. Also featured, an excerpt from tonight's Gremlin Time later this evening at 11pm on KBOO, which will present a chapter from Kliff Nestoroff's History of American Comedy. Featured musica... Read more

The American strategy to exterminate the indigenous people who lived on this continent before the European settlement was many pronged. One of its elements was to entice immigrants from Eastern Europe to come to America with the offer of receiving free land to farm. This... Read more

Before arriving in Portland in 2008, and eventually being dubbed "Portland's People's Photographer," the radical queer white elder activist Kendall had already had a wide-ranging life as an educator and organizer. From a childhood of poverty and abuse in Appalachia, Kend... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Libraries as Grammar Schools of the Commons: Joe Clement shares commentary and news on the political significance of libraries, examining the material context of social attac... Read more

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews the 2024 novel titled Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine, about Luz Lopez and five generations of a Chicano family. The story, set in Denver in the 1930’s, explores how the racism and colonialism of the past haunts the present and shap... Read more

The word “genocide” was coined by secular Jew and Polish attorney Raphael Lemkin in 1948. To him the term meant not only physical obliteration of a certain group of people, but their cultural annihilation as well. The legal concept that emerged from the 1948 UN Conventio... Read more

  Considering the concept of Consent, celebrating birthdays, and playing a lot of good music.   TRANSCRIPT   BEGIN] Broadcasting with gratitude, sorrow, and love from the rightful lands of Cowlitz, Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Tumwater, Tualatin Kalapuya, Wasco, ... Read more