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2019 Spring News and Public Affairs Day

It's membership drive time which means it's time for another News and Public Affairs Day! News and PA day only happens a couple times a year and it's one of our favorites here at KBOO. Programming from 7am-8pm will be featuring interviews and speakers that highlight the int... Read more

Cannabis in the UK

Airs at: Sun, 04/14/2019 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
The UK's House of Commons discusses medical cannabis, plus we hear from the Reverend Larry W. Foy with the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity and Rafi Toruella with Intercambios Puerto Rico. Read more

Spring Drive Special: Presswatch Day

Airs at: Thu, 04/18/2019 at 9:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Presswatch
Thursday is Presswatch Day! From 9am-12pm, host Theresa Mitchell will be bringing you all the news you're not supposed to know, and will take your calls from 9am-12pm. Call the airroom at 503-231-8187. Theresa will be featuring a special thank you pledge gift: PRESS**WATCH ... Read more

Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State

Airs at: Mon, 04/08/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
KBOO alum Norman Solomon talks with Bill Resnick about US militarism (especially now the continued NATO encirclement of Russia), who it benefits, and how it can be stopped.   Solomon is the author of Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 8, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 04/08/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel hosts the show which includes: Media Landscape: Frann Michel reflects on the state of contemporary media. Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State: Bill Resnick interviews Norman Solomon about the US warfare state of today.   When God ... Read more

Documenting Statelessness: a conversation with Greg Constantine

Airs at: Fri, 04/05/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Ani's guest is photographer Greg Constantine, author of the Exiled to Nowhere book and exhibit. His work is central to this weekend's symposium, Exiled to Nowhere: A Symposium on the Rohingya Crisis.  The symposium takes place at the Oregon Historical Society, April 5 - 7.... Read more

The Grand Food Bargain

Airs at: Mon, 04/08/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
When it comes to food, Americans seem to have a pretty great deal. Our grocery stores are overflowing with countless varieties of convenient products. Over time this system has encouraged us to know less and less about where our food comes from and permitted us to expect mo... Read more

The Plot to Attack Iran: A Conversation with Dan Kovalik

Airs at: Fri, 04/12/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Beloved Community
  On the next Beloved Community (Friday, April 12th - 9 am Pacific), John Shuck speaks with University of Pittsburgh Law Professor, Daniel Kovalik about the war drums beating against Iran. We discuss his myth-dispelling book about Iran, The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA... Read more

The Long Honduran Night

Airs at: Mon, 04/01/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier talks to Dana Frank, professor of history emerita at University of California Santa Cruz, and author of many books, including the recent The Long Honduran Night: Resistance , Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup. They discuss the US role... Read more

The Anthropocene

Airs at: Mon, 04/01/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
All of written human history and the rise of civilization has taken place within the Holocene Age, which commenced at the end of the last ice age. It was an age of relatively stable climate and comparatively little geological upheaval. Geological scientists are now suggesti... Read more