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Protesting Border Patrol at U. Arizona

Airs at: Mon, 05/06/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jan Haaken talks with Marianna Coles-Curtis, a poet and organizer, about a recent court victory for immigration activists on the University of Arizona campus, where activism led to trumped-up charges being dropped against students protesting the Border Patrol.     Read more

Pacific Islander Cultural Dance

Airs at: Fri, 05/03/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
Join Pacific Underground for a special Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month episode, as part of KBOO's all-day API heritage day programming! Featuring special guests Teva Oriata Polynesian Cultural Dance Troupe founder Angie Jackman and APANO's Simeon Jacob, ... Read more

A Yonsei/Sansei Conversation

Airs at: Fri, 05/03/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Friday, May 3 is being recognized as Asian and Pacific-Islander American Day on KBOO so Positively Revolting will be featuring a conversation between two Japanese Americans of different generations. Chisao is a local artist, activist, and community advocate who fought for t... Read more

Buscando America on 04/30/19

Airs at: Tue, 04/30/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En esta emisión hablamos con organizadores de los eventos para el 1 de Mayo en Portland y Salem. Conoce a o Branco e o Indio una banda de Art-Rock-Psicodelico-Experimental-Pop de Río de Janeiro. Karen Torrente nos informa sobre las elecciones presidenciales en España.  En e... Read more

Occupy ICEPDX and Dani Summers

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers interviews Portland activists Sam and Alana about OccupyICEPDX and the late Dani Henri Sommerville, also known as Dani Summers, and Dani Som, a twenty year old musician/songwriter,  with OccupyICE/PDX, who died in February. Scroll down for a transcript of ... Read more

Mother Winter

Airs at: Thu, 06/06/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  The lyrical prose of Sophia Shalmiyev’s memoir, Mother Winter, splits open like layer after layer of an ornate matryoshka. With a mesmeric voice and scathing vulnerability, Shalmiyev peels her past down to its hollow core: the vacancy left by her absent mother. Across ti... Read more

Driving Without A License

Airs at: Fri, 04/26/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
This week join Pacific Underground producers Jake and Matt for a conversation with Janine Joseph! We were really excited to connect with Janine and speak with her about her brilliant & award winning first poetry collection, Driving Without a License. Our chat wends between... Read more

Crossing East: Exclusion and Resistance

Airs at: Tue, 04/14/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Asian/Pacific Islanders are facing increased racism and physical attacks because of Covid-19 xenophobia fueled by the current president calling it the "China Virus." Since before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, Asians have faced exclusion laws to promote a whites-only immig... Read more

Portland poet Nastashia Minto, author of "Naked"; and the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival

Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2019 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
We'll be talking with Nastashia Minto, author of the new poetry collection, 'Naked': I never truly understood the beauty of another being until I began to find and love myself. Minto is a Georgia-born African American woman living and working in Portland. Reema Zaman call... Read more

Indigenous Space and Decolonizing Prison Abolition

Airs at: Mon, 03/25/2019 at 4:00pm - Fri, 03/29/2019 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  The Final Straw Radio
Indigenous Space and Decolonizing Prison Abolition (Sean Swain starts at 05min, 12 sec) Ni Frontiers Ni Prison (starts 12min, 08sec) Today we have a two part show! In the first part we are presenting a conversation with someone from Ni Frontiers Ni Prison, which is a grou... Read more