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The Global Citizen - Prof. Mel Gurtov

Airs at: Tue, 03/05/2024 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for Evening News
Today's topic: Leveraging US Military Aid to Israel. Israel is dependent on US military aid for its Gaza operation, yet the Biden administration is unwilling to use that dependence as leverage to demand more humanitarian assistance for Gaza's devastated population. Until it... Read more

Global Citizen Commentary for March 5th, 2024

Airs at: Tue, 03/05/2024 at 5:15pm
  Israel is dependent on US military aid for its Gaza operation, yet the Biden administration is unwilling to use that dependence as leverage to demand more humanitarian assistance for Gaza's devastated population. Until it is willing, food and water will fall far short of... Read more

Sophie’s choice

Airs at: Tue, 03/05/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Much ink has been spilled, and airtime devoted, to the unsatisfactory choices presented to us year after year by our two-party political system. Many alternatives have been proposed — protest votes, a viable third party, political abstinence, revolution. What is a progressi... Read more

Early Morning Gumbo

Airs at: Tue, 03/05/2024 at 5:30am - 7:00am
Join me, Diane Karl, in celebrating women's voices in folk music as we enter Women's History Month!  We'll hear from many of your favorites, both solo and in groups. And we're helping to set the stage for KBOO's special programming for International Women's Day this Friday... Read more

One In Five

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
On this edition of Prison Pipeline: One In Five. On February 8, The Sentencing Project, Berkeley School of Theology, and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation co-hosted a webinar entitled One in Five: Ending Mass Incarceration and its Racial Disparities, which examined ... Read more

Labor Radio

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for Labor Radio
Join CBTU guest host Melanie Zermer in the final segment of Oregon CBTU’s  5-week salute to Black excellence for the 2024 Black History month. Regular host Dr. Audrey, Deborah Hall and Tina Turner-Morfitt are on a brief labor radio hiatus. Sister Zermer is the Executive Pro... Read more

Protecting Mature and Old Growth Forests

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, which oversee most of the nation’s Mature Old Growth forests, continue to defy overwhelming public support for protection, scientific calls for a moratorium on logging, and the presidents’ initial direction to develop conser... Read more

Separate and Deadly

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
In this debut "Field Notes" segment, co-authors Sophie Smith and Parker Deighan of the No More Deaths Abuse Documentation Team discuss the original findings of their recent report, Separate & Deadly: 911 System Segregation in the Arizona Borderlands. The discussion explores... Read more

Portland Street Response Threatened

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Portland Street Response has proven itself very successful as first responders with interventions and assistance for the destitute, houseless, and people in mental health crisis. But the Portland police want to return unchallenged to their role as first responders, employin... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 4, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: What Is the Main Challenge for Socialists Now? In this episode of Another World Is Possible, Norm Diamond takes off from the recent book, The Socialist Challenge Today, by Leo Panitch ... Read more