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Annual Call-In Chicken Show 5-13-11

Airs at: Fri, 05/13/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Bread and Roses
Chickens! Everything you ever wanted to know... It's your chance to ask local experts everything you ever wanted to know about raising backyard hens. Also: how to train your chicken! The only show in the country devoted to all things chicken--only on KBOO! Featuring Buffy... Read more

Press**Watch: I caused Doomsday

Destroy billionaire rule... Doomsday, as it turns out, is a queer-bashing event. Gay-hating fundamentalists are insisting that Saturday night is Doomsday, when they will be vacuumed up into Heaven, leaving us to gnash our teeth and stuff.  Harold Camping says that gays ... Read more

Wild Law: A New Paradigm for Earth's Survival

Airs at: Thu, 05/12/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for A Deeper Look
Human populations overshot the Earth's capacity to support them a while ago. Rates of consumption continue to increase while the ruling societies on Earth give us Fukushima and the BP gulf oil spill, treating the Earth as a treasure chest for private exploitation. They ... Read more

Free-For-All in the kabuki theater that passes for American political discourse

Airs at: Tue, 05/17/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris and Abe Proctor   It might seem hard to believe, but the kabuki theater that passes for the American political discourse has been even stranger of late than it usually is. Abe and Joe survey the absurd state of the empire, while Joe shares a laundry li... Read more

A SEA IN FLAMES: An Interview with author Carl Safina

Airs at: Mon, 05/16/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
It's been over a year since an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig in the Gulf of Mexico produced one of the worst environmental, economic and social disasters this country has ever experienced. This event should have become what some call a teachable moment - when t... Read more

Food Safety in a Post-Fukushima World

Here's a link to an article I just wrote for OpEd news. We need to push for better testing of food for radiation contamination.  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Food-Safety-in-the-Post-Fu-by-Marianne-Barisonek-110513-897.html Read more

Stephanie Cooke on the history of nuclear accidents

Airs at: Fri, 04/29/2011 at 12:00am
The History of Nuclear Accidents and Mistakes: An interview with Stephanie Cooke, journalist and author of In Mortal Hands, A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age. http://www.stephaniescooke.com/blog/ Read more

A Common Sense Alternative to the Columbia River Crossing

Airs at: Tue, 05/10/2011 at 12:00am
Hosted by Joe Uris, with Abe Proctor in absentia. It's the spring membership drive! Joe discusses the latest iteration in the long-running debate on a new bridge over the Columbia River. But really, it's all about the ducats. C'mon, now. If you're not yet a member of KBOO, ... Read more

THE VIKING IN THE WHEAT FIELD: An Interview with Author Susan Dworkin

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
Genetic diversity is nature's path to survival. But over the course of agricultural history human beings have done an exceptional job at narrowing the genetic diversity of the crops we grow and eat. This limiting of the genetic pool ultimately results in crop failures and... Read more

Voices from the Edge 05-05-11

Airs at: Thu, 05/05/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
What's causing the migration of people of color from our North and Northeast Portland neighborhoods?  Where are they going? Jo Ann and Dave discussed these drastic population shifts and some of the causes, including rent/ housing increases, transportation needs, availabilit... Read more