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Halloween Transpooktacular!

Airs at: Tue, 10/30/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Transpositive PDX
Please join us this Tuesday at 6pm on Transpositive PDX on KBOO Community Radio for our Halloween edition!  It is October and this is the season of transitions.  Transitioning into fall, transitioning into the rain, saying goodbye to the sun and hello to a deeper time of in... Read more

Haley Pessin on the Radical Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer

Airs at: Tue, 10/30/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  Fannie Lou Hamer was a fighter for equality and justice who said, “If I fall, I’ll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom.” Going against entrenched racism she was able to accomplish much in gaining voting rights for African Americans. She died in 19... Read more

Corvallis Renters Crisis - Affordability, Availability, Questionable Practices (Part 1)

Airs at: Fri, 11/02/2018 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for Valley Views
Join Host Dale Holiday as she talks about the renters' crisis in Corvallis with Andrea Haverkamp.  Andrea Haverkamp is a PhD student in Environmental Engineering and Queer Studies at Oregon State University.  Her personal mission is to advance social justice and gender equ... Read more

A New Path

Airs at: Sun, 10/28/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: A New PATH's director and co-founder Gretchen Burns Bergman addresses the UN's Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, and Members of Parliament in the UK debate drug policy, decriminalization, and harm reduction. A New PATH   Read more

WomenFirst Transition & Referral Center

Airs at: Wed, 10/31/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for The RadioActivist
Founder and president Shannon Olive chats with host Lisa Loving about why women who are exiting the prison system and coming home to their families and communities are at the heart of this new program.  Click here to find out more about their work.  Photo: WomenFirst Trans... Read more

Portland Gray Panthers Testify on Housing Corporations at City Hall

Produced for Evening News
Measure 102, on your ballots now, changes the Oregon constitution to allow Housing Projects Funded by Municipal Bonds to be owned by private corportation. Testimony of Portland’s Grey Panthers at yesterday’s city council meeting has something to say about the this.   Mayo... Read more

Evening News on 10/25/18

Airs at: Thu, 10/25/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for Evening News
Governor Brown on Drilling After promising to do so earlier this week, Oregon Governor Kate Brown has issued an executive order blocking offshore oil drilling. Her order today directs state agencies to protect Oregon's coastal economy by preventing offshore oil and gas dri... Read more

Oregon Community Media: IMMIGRATION

Airs at: Wed, 10/24/2018 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Produced for Oregon Community Media
Oregon Community Media - Independent community radio and media working in collaboration to better serve Oregon. OCM is composed of over 20 local and independent community broadcasters. All share a commitment to community service and to keeping  local voices alive on the rad... Read more

Episode 68. It Takes A Village To Survive In These Streets ft. RaShanuda

Airs at: Wed, 10/24/2018 at 12:00am - Tue, 11/06/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for Village Vibes Podcast
IT HAPPENED Y'ALL! Tune in to hear the realest one alive, RASHAUNDA, on VillageVibesPodcast! We have been begging her to come on forever, so we did NOT take this opportunity for granted! She's on for the whole.damn.show and we're talking the danger of yt voices, how to grow... Read more

Basic Rights Oregon Responds to Trump Trans Memo

Airs at: Tue, 10/23/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for Evening News
  Basic Rights Oregon hosted a press conference in response to the Trans Memo from the Trump Administration. The memo outlines a proposal to federally define gender as only male or female and determined at birth. The proposal outlined in the memo will not impact Oregon sta... Read more