Economy

KBOO News In Depth: Roger McNamee

Airs at: Mon, 03/18/2019 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
In a New Yorker profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg last September, Evan Osnos writes: “If Facebook were a country, it would have the largest population on earth. More than 2.2 billion people, about a third of humanity, log in at least once a month. That user base h... Read more

It Takes A Village To Build A Heart/Be A Panty Droppa ft Gio of Real Talk PDX

Airs at: Tue, 03/19/2019 at 12:00am - Sun, 03/31/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Village Vibes Podcast
We're keeping it moving this week with a very special guest: @gio_t of Real Talk with PDX_GT podcast! He is dropping allllll the panties in and out of the studio (just listen, you'll understand), all whilst telling and showing the world what real growth looks like. We're al... Read more

Popups

Airs at: Wed, 03/20/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
It's spring and more than flowers are popping up! On our 3/20 show we’re talking popup restaurants - what they are, why people love them, and how they’re impacting Portland’s food scene. We’ll discuss the economics and benefits of popups with four chefs and the Oregonian’s ... Read more

End Prison Slavery: The Free Alabama Movement

Airs at: Mon, 03/11/2019 at 4:00pm - Fri, 03/15/2019 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  The Final Straw Radio
End Prison Slavery: The Free Alabama Movement Download This Episode (Sean Swain: 4min 47sec) This week we air two interviews about the struggle of Alabama activist and prisoner Kinetic Justice. Kinetic, aka Robert Earl Council, conducted a 6 day hunger strike because he w... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour For March 18th, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 03/18/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris Hosts this Episode of the Old Mole which includes Bill Resnick talks with Portland students who helped organize last Friday’s (March 15) Student Climate Strike. In Part One, we hear from Solomon Duke, senior at Franklin High.  He is a founder of the Portl... Read more

Cops: Foot Soldiers of Capitalism and Gentrification

Airs at: Wed, 03/20/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  American society has long used over-policing as a way to violently control Black, Brown and poor communities and to generate state income from poverty. Gentrification displaces and breaks up communities and utilizes both police and private security to enforce this displa... Read more

Gender, Class, and Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 03/11/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In the 1950s and 60s, political and economic commentary was about the struggle between labor and capital. Not now. Why? Thom Becker reads from Rob Urie’s article in CounterPunch arguing that that capitalism has attempted and largely succeeded in co-opting and compromising a... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 11, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 03/11/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Thom Becker hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear: 1. Bill Resnick talks with John T. James about the extent and the causes of fatal medical errors. 2. Frann Michel discusses Earth Strike. 3. How and why the capital-labor struggle disappeared from political c... Read more

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

Airs at: Thu, 03/07/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a "Numbers" racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in o... Read more

Financial Advice with Hsin-Cheng Kuo

Airs at: Fri, 03/01/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
  We have a live call-in show with Portland Financial Advisor Hsin-Cheng Kuo and we're encouraging our API listeners to call in to get YOUR financial questions answered! The number to call is 503-231-8187. Check our her bio and listen this Friday, March 1st from 9am to 10a... Read more