Government/Politics

I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwins original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a jour... Read more

The Mystery and Physics of World Trade Center Seven

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

This is the fifth episode in my series on 9/11. These are interviews with those who are speaking out about the 9/11 false flag and cover up. These are scientists and scholars who are showing us that the science supports what we see with our own eyes, that the three World... Read more

The Art of the Protest Song--Event this Sunday

Airs at: Thu, 11/09/2017 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

KBOO volunteer Sean Steward speaks to Bill Valenti, one of the performers at this Sunday's Art of the Protest Song event, which is free at the Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Avenue. The event begins at 2pm and includes four local musicians performing protest son... Read more

Hillsboro "Dreamers" Adjust to Life after DACA

Airs at: Thu, 11/09/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:15pm

Produced for: Evening News

When President Trump rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, it threw the futures of 800,000 young people in the US into uncertainty. The program was instituted in 2012 by then-President Barack Obama by executive order. It was based on prov... Read more

Losing Our Religion, 9/11 Truth, and the Political Jesus

Airs at: Fri, 11/10/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Beloved Community

Leslea Mair is the president and CEO of Zoot Pictures out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. She talks about her latest film, Losing Our Religion, a feature length documentary about preachers who are not believers, and what atheists do when they miss church. Allowed access to th... Read more

David Barsamian on KBOO!

Airs at: Fri, 11/10/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Positively Revolting

Host of Alternative Radio David Barsamian returns to KBOO to discuss his upcoming appearance at the Clinton Street Theater. He'll join host Linda Olson-Osterlund to discuss the ways that Oregonians have shown resistance in the age of Trump. Call in to join the conve... Read more

Native Voices From the Edge

Airs at: Thu, 11/09/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

Cary Watters and Amory Zschach return to host Voices From the Edge and welcome community activists Cameron Whitten and Christine Bruno and continue the discussion on Native American Heritage Month. For almost one hundred years, Americans both Indian and non-Indian have... Read more

Occupation or Assembly?: PSU Graduate Project Examines Coverage of Protest Events

Airs at: Mon, 11/06/2017 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

Andrew Butz is a Portland State University graduate student in Sociology who is researching his dissertation on a timely subject—the way the media treats protest events. He is comparing newspaper coverage of two signal events in recent American political life: Occupy Wal... Read more

Poor People's Campaign REBORN

Airs at: Wed, 11/08/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

Nearly half a century ago, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King called for a poor peoples campaign. He was assassinated before he was able to full implement it. In May 2017, four months after the inauguration of Trump, the Reverend Dr. William Barber introduced the n... Read more

Holding District Attorneys Accountable

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

District attorneys are the most powerful elected players in the criminal justice system, yet most people don’t know who they are or what they do. Karen James interviews David Rogers, Executive Director, ACLU of Oregon and Daniel Lewkow, manager of THEY REPORT TO YOU, AC... Read more