Civil Liberties

Winners & Losers this Election Season

Airs at: Thu, 11/10/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

Community dialogue is important. Voices from the Edge lends a KBOO microphone to informed guests you might not hear anywhere else. With an hour to invest, the call-in format engages listeners in meaningful conversations about crucial issues like racial disparity, governm... Read more

Flashpoints: Greg Palast

Airs at: Wed, 11/09/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints Greg Palast joins host Dennis Bernstein for an election day post mortem on voter intimidation. Also, The Pipeline: How Marin and San Francisco financial firms fuel the fracking boom. Read more

Secretaries of State discuss their Voting Processes

Airs at: Fri, 11/04/2016 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm

Produced for: Between Us

Don Merrill talked with Secretaries of State of nearly a dozen states to see how they felt about their individual voting processes in advance of the 2016 election. He discusses their comments with C. Norman Turrill, president of League of Women Voters of Oregon. Read more

Secretaries of State evaluate their Voting Process

Produced for: Between Us

Don Merrill talks with C. Normal Turrill, president of the League of Women Voters, Oregon about the state of voting on the eve of the 2016 election. He also talks with Secretaries of States or their representatives from nearly half-a-dozen states across the country. Read more

Stop and Frisk: The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic

Airs at: Thu, 12/22/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

Jo Ann speaks with Mike White, the co-author of Stop and Frisk: The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic. No policing tactic has been more controversial than “stop and frisk,” whereby police officers stop, question and frisk ordinary citizens, who they may v... Read more

Ranked Choice Voting

Airs at: Mon, 11/07/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Hosts Cecil and Celeste welcome Blair Bobier, one of the chief petitioners of the campaign for a Ranked Choice Voting Charter amendment for Benton County, for a discussion on the need to reform the way elections are run. Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is already used by a d... Read more

My Zine

Good old-fashioned spoken-word radio. Observations and opinions, commentary and creative writing by long-time staff member, Bruce Silverman. Random, thought-provoking topics including everything from human-interest stories read straight from the local paper, to personal c... Read more

Ball of Confusion (Election?! Edition)

Airs at: Fri, 11/04/2016 at 12:00am - 3:00am

Produced for: The Sacred Circle "TEMENOS"

Temptations sing: "One, two, one, two, three, four, ow People moving out, people moving in Why, because of the color of their skin Run, run, run but you sure can't hide An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth Vote for me and I'll set you free Rap on, brother, rap on ... Read more

Underground USA

Airs at: Thu, 10/13/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

Underground USA is a symposium at the University of Oregon's Portland campus on October 15th, paying tribute to great underground artists of the Pacific Northwest. Joining us in the studio to talk about the event is Underground USA keynote speaker Patrick Rosenkranz, au... Read more