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KBOO community radio has been bringing diverse communities together for forty years. We offer over twenty hours per day of programs that are produced locally by volunteer community members. This is critical for having local voices on the airwaves at a time when media ownership is consolidating and the remaining local entities turn to syndicated programs. Furthermore we offer genuine diversity. In a city that is over three-quarters white, we offer programming by and for Asian, African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and those from many other backgrounds. We put youth (with a part-time youth coordinator assisting), veterans, and the disabled on the air. And we bring these communities together on and off the air!

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New Media Restrictions on Bradley Manning Trial

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War & Peace

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Evening News

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Thu, 04/11/2013

US military spokespeople announced today new restrictions on media coverage of the pretrial of army whistleblower Bradley Manning, in proceedings several reporters have called more restrictive than Guantanamo Bay military tribunals.

Language used during the announcement was perceived by some as threatening.

Manning is being charged by the military for his involvement with massive leaks of Afghan and Iraqi war reports, US diplomatic cables, and other classified videos and records to the transparency website Wikileaks.

KBOO reporter Jenn Chavez spoke with Nathan Fuller of the Bradley Manning Support Network for more information on the new rules.

4:32 minutes (4.15 MB)

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Ben Katchor and the Architecture of Comics

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Words and Pictures

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Thu, 04/11/2013

Ben Katchor, the first cartoonist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship grant, is also a writer, teacher, and performer of TED Talk recitations. His familiar-seeming yet skewed urban vignettes, such as Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer and The Cardboard Valise, have been appearing in magazines and alternative newspapers for over a quarter century. More recently, he's been collaborating with musician Mark Mulcahy on an absurdist musical play, The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, and a comic-book opera, The Carbon Copy Building, both of which won Obie Awards. Seemingly unable to successfully arrive in Portland, Katchor joins host S.W. Conser on the phone from Seattle to discuss his latest book, Hand-Drying in America and Other Stories, a collection of architecture-related comics from Metropolis magazine.

35:06 minutes (14.07 MB)

News interview with Tash Shatz of Basic Rights Oregon about equal treatment for trans people in healthcare

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Evening News

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Wed, 04/10/2013

Movie Moles: No

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Tue, 04/09/2013

Frann Michel and Jan Haaken review the film "No", a 2012 film set during the 1988 plebicite on Augusto Pinochet.

11:25 minutes (10.46 MB)

Stephanie Luce on working-class organizing

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 04/08/2013

Bill Resnick talks with Stephanie Luce about workplace organzing and worker self-management, and how they are indispensible elements of progressive vision. They talk about the Labor Notes "Troublemakers School" and the "new unionism" it advances.

Stephanie is a labor studies professor and will be the keynote speaker at the Troublemakers School.

13:16 minutes (12.15 MB)

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Portland Troublemakers School

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 04/08/2013

Bill Resnick talks with Megan Heise, an organizer of the Portland Troublemakers School that's this Saturday (April 13th). They discuss the specifics of the event and some of what people can expect. Megan also describes the Troublemakers' bold (but not exactly new) vision of working-class organizing. This interview aired the same day as another with Stephanie Luce, a keynote speaker at the event, who talks with Bill more broadly about the importance of workplace organizing for social justice.

8:42 minutes (7.96 MB)

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Steve McGiffen in Portland to discuss European crisis

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 04/08/2013

Joe Clement talks with Steve McGiffen about the intersecting political, cultural and economic crises in Europe. Steve is in town to speak about these topics and facilitate a discussion at the Red and Black on April 10th at 7:00pm. From the Red and Black's site:

11:06 minutes (10.17 MB)

Book Mole: Look At Me

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 04/08/2013

Larry Bowlden reviews an earlier work by Jennifer Egan (a Pulitzer prize-winner for her 2010 novel "The Goon Squad"), "Look at Me". Larry considers Egan's exploration of identity and how others see us affects and effects us.

7:08 minutes (6.53 MB)

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Old Mole Variety Hour April 8th, 2013

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 04/08/2013

Tom Becker hosts this episode where we hear about the Portland Troublemakers School (April 13th) from two of its organizers, a movie review of "No", a discussion about the crises in Europe, and a book review of Jennifer Egan's "Look At Me". An error clipped the first couple minutes of this recording, and it starts right with Tom introducing Bill's interview. The list below is in order and the show is otherwise complete.

54:47 minutes (50.16 MB)

Ann Wetherell and the "Flying Tigers: Chinese American Aviators in Oregon, 1918-1945"

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APA Compass

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Fri, 04/05/2013

Professor Ann Wetherell tells us why Portland had an unusually large number of Chinese-American pilots in the early 1900s. Professor Wetherell is the curator of “Flying Tigers: Chinese American Aviators in Oregon, 1918-1945″.

Interviewed and produced by Andrew Yeh.