Economy

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Believing in a Better World

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge argues that a life dedicated to working for a world free of capitalism and wage labor is the best life even though we cannot be sure that such a world is possible.  The argument follows the logic of Pascal's wager, but to a purely secular conclusion.  Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 13, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 03/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge will be our host and we will hear -- More about the impact of ICE raids in Woodburn and how US foreign policy drives immigration How to overcome disempowering skepticism about a better world Providing medical help to marginalized communities How prog... Read more

SE Portland Tenants Try to Organize Apartment Building

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Tenants at the Clifford Apartments in Southeast Portland are trying to organize. They say the management company, Income Property Management, has unfairly retaliated against tenants who have made complaints regarding health and safety. KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg has this repo... Read more

guess who's coming to radio??!! on 03/09/17

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
  Part 2 of Guess Who's Coming to Radio from  3/9/17 Catch the first hour here: http://kboo.fm/media/56313-fuller-conversation-dr-jared-ball-and-music-al-jarreau Read more

A (fuller) conversation with Dr. Jared A. Ball, and the music of Al Jarreau

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Jared A. Ball has been on the airwaves of KBOO several times; in interviews related to news programming, on airings of Hard Knock Radio, and even on 'guess who's coming to radio??!!' (in a segment on A Tribe called Quest and Phife Dawg). However, we had been wanting to do a... Read more

Famine Looms in Parts of Africa and Yemen

Airs at: Mon, 02/27/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Famines are looming over several dry and war-torn areas in North Africa and the Middle East. The United Nations officially declared a famine in South Sudan last week, and is on the verge of declaring famines in Yemen, Somalia and northeastern Nigeria as well. While low rai... Read more

Street Trust and State Money

Airs at: Wed, 03/01/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Bike Show
This month on the KBOO Bike Show we'll be hosting some old friends with a new identity (and mission). Formerly the Bicycle Transportation Alliance the newly minted "Street Trust" has expanded their vision to include pedestrians and transit. But what does that mean for bikes... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 20th 2017

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes    Bill Resnick and Bill Smaldone continue their interview on fascism and Trumpism. In the second part today they discuss how Trump and our warrior politicians and forces can manufacture a threat to thi... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for February 13, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 02/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this short, membership-drive edition of the Old Mole, and we hear... • Larry Bowlden reviews Nella Larsen’s 1928 novel from the Harlem Renaissance, Quicksand; • Bill Resnick and historian Bill Smaldone look for lessons about Trump in the rise ... Read more

Capital Strike

Airs at: Mon, 02/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Clayton Morgareidge shows how the power of capital to go on strike is the most important leverage the wealthy elite have over government. He draws on "When Capital Goes on Strike" from the Jacobin Magazine website, and this 1935 piece by Bertholt Brecht.   Read more