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Looking beyond the rhetoric: the arguments for (and against) Measures 66 & 67

Airs at: Thu, 01/07/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
On January 26, Oregonians will be asked to decide how the latest chapter in the state's long-running tax wars will turn out. Opponents of two tax increases approved by the legislature in 2009 succeeded in collecting enough signatures for a referendum on what are now Measure... Read more

Immigrant rights rally at Earl Blumenauer's office

Airs at: Thu, 01/07/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
A new Immigration reform bill in Congress has the support of many immigrant rights groups. Now Earl Blumenauer is standing behind it as well. KBOO’s Stefan Kamp has the story. Read more

Book Mole: "Middlesex"

Airs at: Mon, 12/28/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Our book mole Larry Bowlden takes up Jeffrey Eugenides's Pulitzer Prize novel Middlesex.  It is about gender ambiguity, immigration, working in the auto industry in Detroit, and family history.  You can read more of Larry's reviews here.   Read more

The Decade In Review: Call in with your Best and Worst of the Decade

Airs at: Tue, 12/29/2009 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe UrisToday's show will be The Decade In Review...  Joe will seed the discussion with some of his own observations, then ask for yours. Read more

Palestinian Christians speak in Portland

Airs at: Thu, 12/24/2009 at 12:00am
Christians around the world are gathering to prepare for Christmas. But in Bethlehem, where the Christian religion began, the population lives under a military occupation, and surrounded by a Wall. Two Palestinian Christians, one from Nazareth, and one from Bethlehem, spok... Read more

Book Mole: "Unaccustomed Earth"

Airs at: Mon, 12/14/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 "A writer who seems to paint pictures without leaving brush strokes."  That's how the Old Mole's Larry Bowlden describes the work of Jhumpa Lahiri in her collection of stories Unaccustomed Earth.  You can find an archive of Larry's past reviews here.    Read more

Voices from the Edge: What's behind Oregon's domestic violence murders-suicides?

Airs at: Thu, 12/10/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Fourteen Oregonians died last month in five murder-suicides and one attempted murder suicide. Why this sudden outbreak now of men using guns to murder their spouses, ex-spouses and themselves when domestic violence homicides in Oregon have been on the decline? In 1997, 22 d... Read more

A recent study shows that our dynamic Immigrant Community actually BOOSTS our local economy. Find out how!

Airs at: Wed, 12/02/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Common Sense Talk Radio Hosted by Kayse Jama and Grassia Melendez From the Center for Intercultural Organizing Today's guests are Joy Margheim from the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and Ronault "Polo" Catalani from Portland's Office of Human Relations.  Joy was an autho... Read more

Dhoruba bin Wahad and Naji Mujahid: Denied entry into Palestine

Airs at: Thu, 11/26/2009 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
5:00 - 6:00 pm Thurs. Nov. 26th, 2009 KBOO interviews Dhoruba bin Wahad, who is speaking from a hotel in Jordan after being detained and then denied entry into Palestine by Israeli authorities. bin Wahad is a former political prisoner in the US who was charged in 1971 with... Read more

Moving to the Beat: Hip Hop from PDX to Sierra Leone

Airs at: Mon, 11/16/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bridging the gap between the US and Africa with Hip Hop youth culture -- that's one of the aims of the new film Moving 2 the Beat, produced here in Portland and in Sierra Leone.  Abdul Fofanah, co-director of the film and a Sierra Leonean -American, talks about the film her... Read more