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Trouble-making in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 04/24/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In the aftermath of the November election, Unions are facing a host of challenges. On April 8th 2017 Labor Notes was in town for the Portland Troublemakers School to help union members and Organizers understand and learn to fight back against such challenges as Right to Wor... Read more

Teaching in Poor Schools

Airs at: Mon, 04/24/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Alex Diamond, who has taught school in Asia and Latin America, about his experience teaching in a poor school in Memphis, Tennessee. Among the issues they discuss is the impact on teachers and students of standardized testing used as a criterion for ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 24, 2017

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tod Sloan will be our host for this edition of the Old Mole, and we will hear-- an interview on teaching in poverty schools, the tragedy of it and some wonderful possibilities a reading on the long history of medical experimentation on people of color in the U.S. ... Read more

Milenio / Books to Prisoners

Airs at: Mon, 04/24/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Milenio is an organization that facilitates the involvement of Latinos at all levels of public decision-making and politics. Milenio strives to improve education outcomes, advocate for immigration reform, incarceration, women's rights, LGBT rights, political innovation and ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour April 17, 2017

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes Host Denise Morris talks with Margot Black about HB 2004 a proposed bill to end no-cause evictions and prevent massive rent hikes with rent control measures. Margot Black is a founding member of Portland T... Read more

Getting to the root, cutting the weeds... and continuing to grow.

Airs at: Thu, 04/13/2017 at 7:00pm - 10:00pm
The inundation of increasingly compact technology is said to 'free us up' from being tied to one place, enabling us to create larger (global) communities, based on our interests and ideologies.  What we have seen though, is that this has led to the marketing and perpetuatio... Read more

Anti-Earth Day show

Airs at: Fri, 04/21/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  From the Grassroots
“The planet is fine. The people are fuxxxd.”George Carlin Listen to “ From the Grassroot-where we agitate for social change with music and commentary, “ for our annual Anti-Earth Day focusing on the political humor of George Carlin and we will continue our musical tribute t... Read more

Farel Dalrymple and Ryan Alexander-Tanner

Airs at: Thu, 04/13/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Award-winning Portland comics artists Farel Dalrymple and Ryan Alexander-Tanner return to the KBOO studios with fresh stories and new projects to share.  Between stints at DC and Marvel, Farel is publishing the second volume of his celebrated series Pop Gun War for Dark ... Read more

The Fight for Free Speech on Campus: Geoffrey Stone

Airs at: Tue, 04/11/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The political landscape is increasingly intolerant of opposing views. Campuses are sometimes a battleground. Author Charles Murray was shouted down and prevented from speaking at Middlebury. Condoleezza Rice declined to speak at Rutgers because of protests. Ex-Breitbart ... Read more

News In Depth on 04/06/17

Airs at: Thu, 04/06/2017 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
  Most Oregonians remember November's election well enough to recall the basics of Measure 97—the one that sought to increase corporate taxes to fund schools—and also 99—the one that funded outdoors programs for schools—but when one KBOO reporter looked around the station,... Read more