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OPEN FORUM: KBOO Membership Drive Special Listener Call-In

Airs at: Thu, 12/19/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
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Old Mole Variety Hour for December 16, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 12/16/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Climate and Justice: Just three weeks after the disappointing outcome at the United Nations COP 29 (Conference of Parties) meetings in Azerbaijan, the largest case in the his... Read more

1/6 - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 12/12/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In the runup to the second presidential term of Donald Trump, we revisit our June 2023 conversation with the creative team behind 1/6: The Graphic Novel, a speculative spin on the real events of January 6, 2021. Writers Gan Golan (The Adventures of Unemployed Man) and ... Read more

Nukes for Needless Energy

Airs at: Mon, 12/16/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
As we transition to a truly renewable world two of the things we need less of are more and larger server farms and nuclear power reactors to feed them electricity. Yet that is the plan being hatched by Microsoft, Amazon and other tech giants. Amazon is eyeing Eastern Ore... Read more

Making Solidarity and Making Community

Airs at: Mon, 12/16/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
With the looming prospect of a new Trump administration, left activists face a perilous political moment. Today we look back at the Central America solidarity movement of the 1980’s to discover what lessons can be learned from a movement that succeeded in blunting US mil... Read more

KBOO's Kate Chase on the State of the Station

Airs at: Thu, 12/05/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
KBOO's Engagement Coordinator Kate Chase shares current work and ideas about promoting KBOO and growing the station into the future -- with listener calls. Read more

PGE Wants to Clearcut in Forest Park

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Portland General Electric (PGE) has submitted a proposal to the city of Portland to update and expand their power grid infrastructure. The proposal, known as the Harborton Reliability Project, would upgrade one existing power line, and clearcut nearly five acres of fores... Read more

Remembering Bob Sallinger

Airs at: Mon, 12/02/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
On this episode of Locus Focus we honor Oregon Environment Icon Bob Sallinger, who died on October 30. For over 30 years Bob has been a regional fixture advocating and fighting to protect our rivers, wildlife, forests and communities from environmental and social degrada... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 25, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 11/25/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Nimiipuu Mole Julian Ankney hosts this decolonial Thanksgiving Show, which features the following segments: Beginning in grade school, American school children are steeped in the American mythology of Thanksgiving, cosplaying pilgrims and their Wampanoag hosts peacefu... Read more

(ENCORE/UPDATE) A Girl, A Goat, & A Humane 4-H Alternative

Airs at: Fri, 11/22/2024 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Voices for the Animals
  Back in April of 2023, a 9-year-old girl in Shasta County, California was raising a 4-H goat named Cedar when she realized that she couldn't go through with giving up her friend to be sold and slaughtered, as the program demands. The fair board, which runs the 4-H pro... Read more