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"You Play Ball Like A Girl" - Feminist Lens on Baseball & Pitch

Airs at: Fri, 09/30/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Host Pamela Santos brings another installment of "Feminists Watch TV, Too" with a discussion of TV show Pitch and the "soon-to-be-true-story" of a female pitcher in major league baseball. As with any pop culture, TV show imagining the change we want to see in the world offe... Read more

News and Public Affairs Day Special: The Rise of the Fascist Right and How We Fight Back

Airs at: Fri, 09/23/2016 at 9:00am - 11:00am
This morning on KBOO's News and Public Affairs Day we present a special program on the rise of the extreme right in the United States, which has culminated in the Republican party nomination of a neo-fascist candidate. First, it's an exclusive KBOO interview with Steve Fras... Read more

Bread and Roses on 09/16/16

Airs at: Fri, 09/16/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
  Tonight, we talk to award-winning independent media artists Barbara Bernstein and Elaine Velazquez who run The Media Project. They collaborated on a new documentary focusing on food, environmental, and racial justice called Gaining Ground. GAINING GROUND is a feature-le... Read more

Necessary Trouble with Sarah Jaffe

Airs at: Fri, 09/09/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Beloved Community
Truthout calls Sarah Jaffe's new book, Necessary Trouble: Americans In Revolt, "one of the most essential books of the year."  John Shuck, host of the new KBOO program, Beloved Community, talks with Jaffe about her description of a new activism that has arisen since the cra... Read more

Preference: queer arts and history

Airs at: Tue, 08/30/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
.   From September 10 through September 18, Theater Diaspora will be presenting staged readings of A Language of Their Own, at Portland Center Stage at the Armory. We'll be joined in the studio by the cast and director of the play, written by Chay Yew (pictured here, to ... Read more

Jenna Yokoyama, Pacific Underground

Airs at: Sat, 08/27/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Jenna Yokoyama is a Japanese American. She co-hosts the show Pacific Underground (Facebook, Twitter) on KBOO in Portland, Oregon.   It is heard on the FOURTH Friday of every month at 11:00 a.m.   It is also on podcast via Soundcloudand iTunes.    According to its website, ... Read more

Thirst - Our August Theme

Airs at: Fri, 08/26/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
For the last month of summer, Pacific Underground is presenting 4 different segments around the theme "THIRST": Alan Montecillo talks about thirst for revenge in a piece about Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte Pamela Santos unpacks the way Asian bodies are racialized,... Read more

Alan Wieder on "Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation"

Airs at: Wed, 08/24/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Host Gene Bradley speaks with Alan Wieder about his new book, Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation.  Studs Terkel was an American icon and a leftist who valued human beings over political dogma.  In scores of books and thousands of radio and televisio... Read more

Ex-Offenders & Employment after Banning the Box

Airs at: Mon, 08/22/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Oregon’s “Ban the Box” law, H.B. 3025, went into effect in January 2016.  Oregonians no longer have to check the box on job applications that asks about previous convictions.  Last year President Obama "banned the box" on federal-government employment applications and almos... Read more

Marianne Williamson, Tears to Triumph

Airs at: Fri, 08/12/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Seven of her twelve books have been New York Times bestsellers. Four have been #1 on that list. You have seen her on Oprah, Larry King Live, Bill Maher, Good Morning America, and Charlie Rose. You can watch her live each Wednesday on livestream through her website Marianne.... Read more