Recent Audio

Calling all lovers of physical media! Join us at the KBOO station on Friday, March 7th from 6-9 PM for our monthly First Friday Pop-Up Gallery event! Join us for a celebration of DIY, indie media featuring local artists, vendors, and live music. Pick up a zine, flip thro... Read more

Kristian Williams, member of AFSCME 88 and author of "Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America" as well as the forthcoming book "Policing the Progressive City" about the history of policing in Portland, Oregon from colonization to the uprising of 2020, discusses ... Read more

A couple decades ago Urban Naturalist Mike Houck coined the the term Greenfrastructure to describe the important role that urban green spaces play in providing climate resilience. Today people refer to green infrastructure, but in a way that term does not emphasize the i... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments on immigration: Growing up Undocumented: Patricia Kullberg speaks with Luisa Martinez about growing up undocumented in Florida and the deprivation and shame entailed in living... Read more

Movie Moles Laurie Mercier and Frann Michel discuss the 1983 film El Norte. Directed and co-written by Gregory Nava, El Norte is an award winning, independent epic US film, notable for centering the experiences of two indigenous Mayan migrants from Guatemala as they move... Read more

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz argues that migrants to the US, largely from the global south, are Americanized in ways that obscure the settler-colonialism that this country was founded on and that we have yet to reckon with. Our Well Read Red, Patricia Kullberg reads excerpts fro... Read more

Patricia Kullberg speaks with Luisa Martinez about growing up undocumented in Florida and the deprivation and shame entailed in living as an impoverished Latina without papers. She relates how encountering the ideas of socialism offered her a new perspective on how imper... Read more

  Join long time KBOO hosts Celeste Carey and PDX Biologic for a 5-hour special of converging musical styles, narratives and creative expressions in Black music. Read more