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Jan Michael Looking Wolf

Jan Michael Looking Wolf   Listen in January 13th to KBOO 90.7FM at 6PM to hear Jan Michael Looking Wolf on Tillicum Wawa:Voices of the People, Native American music and community connection program. Jan Michael Looking Wolf is widely considered the premier Native America... Read more

Race and Recession

  The current recession is not an equal opportunity crisis. People of color are experiencing job loss, foreclosures and lack of healthcare at alarmingly higher rates than white Americans. These disparities are not a coincidence but rather the result of struc... Read more

militarized policing in Ferguson and beyond

For the 18 August 2014 Old Mole Variety Hour. There's been much attention of late to what's described as the militarization of the police. As Tamara K. Nopper & Mariame Kaba note in Jacobin, "discussions about America’s militarized police forces" seem to have suddenly b... Read more

Review of The Karate Kid remake

The Karate Kid Director: Harald Zwart With: Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson, Wenwen Han, Zhenwei Wang The original Karate Kid was a pretty good movie with a nice turn by Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi, and an earnest and believable job by Ralph Macchio in the title r... Read more

Just voted!

 Just dropped off the ol' ballot. It feels pretty good. It's hard to believe that this interminable election campaign (far, far too long) is nearly over. It's hard, too, to untie all the emotions that are bound up with it, at least for me. For those of you who listen to th... Read more

ALEC helps corporations write state laws

Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  [For the 21 May 12 Old Mole, posted 5/20/2012] We all know money in politics is a problem.  As Marx noted, "The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie." One of the strongest links between capital and th... Read more

Fall Membership Drive Ends Wednesday

We've extended our Fall drive by a few days so we get as close to our $130,000 goal as possible. It's all over Wedesday at noon even if we don't hit our financial goal. KBOO raises its annual budget each year with contributions from our membership accounting for about 8... Read more

Redneck America

 Those of you who have listened to the show for awhile now know that I have made intermittent attempts to expose our listeners to the conservative psyche, and, in particular, those who get paid to espouse and minister to it. These attempts have met with a mixed response,... Read more

Arresting Power - A Documentary Film about Police violence and resistance in Portland OR

Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon uses archival materials, documentary footage and interviews with community members, activists and organizers to uncover Portland’s unique history of policing and race relations, emphasizing its rich history o... Read more

Wondering...

Just wondering what was really going on at the programming committee meeting tonight... Hoping the station will support "Indian Country"! Read more