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The View from Base Camp

Airs at: Fri, 09/14/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    One Portland organization is using a little known environmental law to fight logging around Mt. Hood. Earlier this month, 175 volunteers with the non-profit Bark camped out in the newest proposed timber sale in Mt. Hood National Forest as part of their annual Summer B... Read more

Keynesian Vs. Marxian and Neoclassical Economics: Richard D. Wolff

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  This week's special edition of Economic Update deals with Keynesian economics as a theory that clashes with both the mainstream economics ("neoclassical") that celebrates private capitalism and with critical theories such as Marxian economics that are opposed to capitali... Read more

Francisco Mora Catlett

Airs at: Fri, 09/14/2018 at 10:00pm - Sat, 09/15/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
El baterista mexicano Francisco Mora Catlett, quien toco con Sun Ra durante su estancia en Mexico, despues de que el tecladista necesito baterista para su grupo, empezo su carrera con el grupo de rock psicodelico "Los Profetas" a finales de los 60's. Tendremos una muy inte... Read more

Welcome to the Zone

Airs at: Thu, 09/13/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  David Chelsea reboots the wacky futuristic comics story he first published a quarter-century ago, set in a dystopian Manhattan ruled by a deranged real-estate magnate. Read more

RALPH NADER! Citizen Action: It's Easier than We Think, Pt 2

Airs at: Tue, 09/11/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Overcoming adversity alone is a tough road to hoe but when you act with others it’s not as difficult. There is nothing like solidarity. There’s unity and strength in numbers. Most movements have very modest beginnings. Take women’s rights. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a ha... Read more

"America: The Farewell Tour," live with Chris Hedges

Airs at: Wed, 09/12/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    "America, says Pulitzer Prize­–winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis, the retreat into gambling to cope ... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: John Larison

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
The western novel is an American literary tradition, and our In Depth guest today, John Larison, has written one of the best ones in recent memory. Whiskey When We’re Dry tells the story of teenaged Jessilyn Harney, who when her father dies in the spring of 1885, dresses up... Read more

Ilyasah Shabazz: Betty Before X

Airs at: Thu, 09/06/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  Call during this broadcast and contribute to KBOO's Fall Membership Drive.  Give to KBOO and get a copy of Betty Before X...a powerful middle-grade fictionalized account of the childhood activism of Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X's wife, written by their daughter Ilyasah Shaba... Read more

Greg Palast: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits

Airs at: Fri, 09/14/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
  Author of Best Democracy Money Can Buy & Armed Madhouse. New film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, LIVE ON KBOO!  Friday morning call and join the conversation at (503)231-8187 Read more

Organizing Lessons from Labor History

Airs at: Mon, 09/03/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Historians Heather Mayer, Steve Beda, and Amy Coplen talk with Norm Diamond about the importance of building community for strong labor organizing and what it takes to maintain a movement.  All four are involved with the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association. publ... Read more