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Bringing Haiti Home: A Journalist Looks Back; Interview with Kimberly A.C. Wilson

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Mon, 03/08/2010

Kimberly A. C. Wilson is a reporter for the Oregonian newspaper and was sent to Haiti after the January earthquake to cover stories related to the Pacific Northwest. This radio program is taken from interviews conducted by Kboo host Linda Olson-Osterlund and provide a personal look back at her trip to Haiti.

Thanks to the Oregonian and Oregon Live for the use of audio of children singing and other background audio. Also thank you to The Masters of Haiti for their song Ti Chans

58:12 minutes (53.29 MB)

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Women Healing Women; The Maher Project

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A Deeper Look

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Thu, 03/11/2010

Guests, Cynthia Brix and William Keepin, authors of the new book Women Healing Women: A Model of Hope for Oppressed Women Everywhere join host Linda Olson-Osterlund to discuss The Maher Project. It is a sanctuary for women and children abused or abandoned. Founded by Sister Lucy Kurien it is located in Pune, India. The center is interfaith and and rejects caste in both it's philosophy and in all of it's activities while providing safe shelter, education and healing of the body mind and spirit.

27:34 minutes (25.24 MB)

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Burma's Hidden Genocide:Interview with Mac McClelland

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A Deeper Look

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Thu, 03/25/2010

Burma's Hidden Genocide,

26:30 minutes (24.27 MB)

Running For The Women Of The Congo: Interview with Lisa J. Shannon

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A Deeper Look

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Thu, 04/08/2010

Author, Lisa J. Shannon joins host Linda Olson-Osterlund in the Kboo Studio to talk about her new book, A Thousand Sisters: My Journey Into The Worst Place On Earth To Be A Women. In 2005 Lisa saw an episode of the Oprah show depicting the plight of women in the conflict in The Congo where rape had affected the lives of over fifty percent of the women fleeing the fighting. That show changed Lisa's life forever. She founded Run For Congo Women, raising funds to sponsor Congolese women through Women For Women International, then traveled to the eastern Congo to meet the women she sponsored.

29:40 minutes (27.16 MB)

Keep Nestle Out of the Gorge, A Coaliton forms to oppose bottling in Cascade Locks

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Environment

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Thu, 04/22/2010

Oxbow Springs in Cascade Locks is the target of Nestle Corporation's plans for bottling millions of gallons of water from the springs and from city well water. Listen, to find out about Nestle, their plans and the coalition to oppose them. Coming to you from the studio, guest, Julia Degraw, northwest organizer for Food and Water Watch, a non profit consumer organization discusses the potential environmental impacts of the bottling plant proposal and the steps that will be gone through before decisions are final.

29:27 minutes (26.97 MB)

No Regrets; Poems on abortion by Judith Arcana

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Special Programming: Public Affairs

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Mon, 03/08/2010

Judith Arcana, local writer, poet and long time activist in support of a woman's right to choose, read her poems as part of Kboo's 2010 International Women's Day programming. They were used to inspire discussion for the am call in talk show, No Regrets; Women On Abortion.

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Michael Parenti on "God and His Demons"

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Fight the Empire

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Thu, 05/06/2010

Per Fagereng hosts Part 2 of his interview with scholar, author and lecturer Michael Parenti about his new book, "God and His Demons."

Michael Parenti (Berkeley, CA) is the acclaimed author of more than twenty books, including, most recently, Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader; The Assassination of Julius Caesar; and The Culture Struggle. The New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, Harper's, The Nation, and Antioch Review, are among the countless publications that have praised Parenti's work. For further information, visit his Web site: michaelparenti.org

27:43 minutes (25.37 MB)

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Who's The Real Threat? War with Iran

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Presswatch

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Thu, 05/06/2010

After Headlines and Radio Havana, host Theresa Mitchell talks about the presence of the US Fleet in the Middle East and compares it to the size of Iran's "tuna boat size " navy. Listen for More!

27:15 minutes (24.95 MB)

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RAY GUNS, SONIC BLASTS AND MORE; YOUR GOVERNMENT AND CROWD CONTROL

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A Deeper Look

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Thu, 05/13/2010

Listen in to this Membership Drive edition of A Deeper Look. Brooklyn writer Ando Arike joins host Linda Olson-Osterlund to talk about his recent article in Harper's Magazine, The Soft-kill Solution: New Frontiers in Pain Compliance. Learn about, not only the development of new crowd or "riot control " weapons, but their deployment against protesters in the United States and internationally. What are these "non-lethal" weapons. Where do the rights of citizens to protest fit in this new era of control?