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Through Our Own Eyes Episode 4: Food Security

Through Your Own Eyes is made possible by contributors like yourself. Every contributor will receive a postcard from Boriken with our gratitude. If you enjoyed this program and would like to support it click here. Be sure to follow us on Blogger and Facebook. PALANTE! SIEMP... Read more

LIVE David Rovics

Airs at: Mon, 04/11/2016 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
David plays music to represent his feelings about rent and his landlords at city hall Read more

Richard Wolff on "Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown"

Airs at: Wed, 07/20/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Host Per Fagereng interviews professor and author Richard Wolff about his new book "Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown." Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at th... Read more

Enron's Impact in Oregon: Ten Years since the Downfall

Airs at: Thu, 07/14/2016 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
The ENRON scandal was one of the biggest cases of corporate corruption in the history of the United States. Few people remember that Oregon was the hardest-hit state by the corporation’s implosion. ENRON owned Portland General Electric – the fraud-filled corporation’s only ... Read more

PressWatch

Airs at: Thu, 07/14/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Presswatch
On this week's PressWatch, call in to support KBOO community radio!  The number is 877-500-KBOO, 877-500-5266.   First, some News You're Not Supposed To Know headlines, then let's discuss Black Lives Matter-- its treatment in the press, and the dismissive and/or incendiary... Read more

KBOO News InDepth: Paul Anthony on Race and Poverty at PPS

Portland Public School Board Director Paul Anthony recently filed a federal complaint against Portland Public Schools for racial inequities. In this evening's News In Depth, mr Anthony speakes with KBOO’s Don Merrill about his motivation and his plans for change.    Produc... Read more

Michael Parenti - Fascism: The False Revolution

Airs at: Tue, 07/12/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Michael Parenti is a brilliant orator and one of this country's foremost independent political analysts. He has taught at major colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad. He is the author of numerous books Democracy for the Few, The Face of Imperialism, and  The ... Read more

The State of Policing in Portland

Airs at: Thu, 07/14/2016 at 10:00am - 11:30am
  Host Jo Ann Hardesty features an update on the state of policing in Portland.  Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for July 4, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Joe Clement hosts this 4th of July episode and plays The Rent is Too Damn High, in addition to more great music and these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Patricia Smith, former union organizer and lobbyist, about the plight of school-workers who make less than $15 and ... Read more

Just Transitions Portland

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  The "Just Transition" is to that new economy necessary to avoid environmental cataclysm, a transition that creates good work and income for all and cleans up the environmental ruination of low income particularly people of color communities. That is, Just Transition mean... Read more