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Threshold Shift + KBOO + OMSI = Ultrasonic Good Time

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  Event:  OMSI After Dark:  Good Vibrations, 700-1100 PM August 29th, 2018 Where: OMSI 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR 97214 Tickets:  www.omsi.edu Location & Time of Soundscape:  OMSI Planetarium, 8 PM ONE SHOWING ONLY, capacity 186 Insectuality:  Ultrasonic Love Songs ... Read more

DeRay Mckesson: On the Other Side of Freedom

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcome author and activist DeRay Mckesson to KBOO ahead of his Portland appearance at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on September 20th.  Call (503) 231-8187 during this Fall Membership Drive to join the conversation and to get a copy of DeRay's new ... Read more

The Long Con

Airs at: Thu, 08/09/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Comics conventions are hotbeds of community-building for all flavors of fandom.  But in The Long Con, an apocalyptic event turns convention-goers into an unlikely band of survivors.  Co-writer Ben Coleman and illustrator Emilee Denich join us and share the true-life tale... Read more

Criminalizing Native Dissent

Airs at: Wed, 08/08/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Jacqueline Keeler welcomes two Native activists who've been targeted by law enforcement for their politcal expressions. Tracy Molina is a Native veteran and activist who was arrested on Saturday at the Patriot Prayer Rally in downtown Portland. She was charged with seco... Read more

Portland Fruit Tree Project and a Master Gardner Answers Your Questions about Fall Gardening

Airs at: Wed, 08/08/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Dirtbag
  On this encore presentation of The Dirg Bag Gene Bradley fills in as host for Glen Andresen, who is on break. Gene's guests will be Bob Hatton, program director of the Portland Fruit Tree Project, who will talk about their work in Portland, and Weston Miller, OSU Extens... Read more

Parenting From Prison, Inside Out

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  When one or both parents are incarcerated the family is also incarcerated and are adversely affected in profound ways that exacerbate existing structural inequalities and struggles. Programs for inmates and families like FamilyWorks and the Storybook Program, encourage r... Read more

Can You See the White? (Part 2)

Airs at: Fri, 08/10/2018 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Valley Views
Faith is a white woman who reflects on personal and societal events that shaped her life’s journey to racial justice and equity awareness.  I asked Faith to be on the show because she and I have had many conversations about race that may be inspiring to listeners.  I admire... 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

Foreclosures for Sale: Revisiting Stories of Worcester’s Mortgage Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 08/13/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
This week on Locus Focus we feature a new radio documentary produced by our friends at WCUW in Worcester, Massachusetts. Foreclosures for Sale: Revisiting Stories of Worcester’s Mortgage Crisis is produced by Hallie Blashfield and Beatrice Misher. It tells the stories of M... Read more