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Help tell the world what KBOO is all about (in 50 words or less!)

Click here to take the survey! (This survey will be available to take until 5:00 pm on May 15th) Dear KBOO Members, KBOO Strategic Planning Support Work Group invites you to engage in a process of input toward a mission and vision statement for KBOO.  KBOO does not have... Read more

The Young Ladies Radio Project in the Portland Tribune!

The Young Ladies Radio Project is one of the projects between the Young Women's Equity Program, of IRCO (The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization) and the KBOO Youth Collective have collaborated on the past six months. The last episode of the program will be on t... Read more

against work

The well-read Red has been reading about working and about not working. With unemployment rates in the US hovering around 16 percent, we might take to heart comments from French activists  protesting changes in unemployment law some years ago. Taking a page from the Situ... Read more

On the Chicago Teacher's Strike

For the Old Mole Variety Hour 17 Sept 2012 Joanne Barkan in Dissent Magazine notes that, Yes, schoolchildren in Chicago are victims, but not of their teachers. They are victims of a nationwide education “reform” movement geared to undermine teachers’ unions and shift pub... Read more

SXSW Day Four: Buffering Al Gore

Starting the day at a decent hour, I managed to pull off yesterday’s blog and make it to a non-profit meet up within the heart of Trade Show. I found myself self-conscious explaining that my organization is on hiatus; the Board didn’t work out.  People were hasty to move... Read more

Alicia McDaid

Alicia McDaid has a show called "Pain is Fear Leaving Your Body." which open this Saturday, March 7th, 6 - 8PM. Check out her work here. Read more

Underwriters in the WWtop200

These community businesses support KBOO through underwriting. This month, they're contenders in the Willamette Week's "Best of Portland" poll! You can vote for them here until June 30th: http://bitly.com/top200ww. If you use Twitter, let the world know that you voted wit... Read more

Sleeping Bag Drive

KBOO is proud to support to the Sleeping Bag Drive: Cold, rainy weather has hit Portland, with temperatures below freezing. For the homeless, sleeping bags are essential to survival in the harsh Oregon winter, and can be the difference between life and death. Statewide, ov... Read more

Potluck

On Thursday, March 25, from 4pm to 8pm, "Mitakuye Oyasin" will be hosting a potluck with our listening community. This will take place at KBOO headquaters, 20 SE 8th, Portland, Oregon. You can't miss that wonderful mural. Read more

Tuesday's (web) work is lost

 Hello dear comrades - As you know, the website crashed in a big way on Tuesday night.... and it didn't come back up until Thursday morning. The crash corrupted the website databases -- which contained all of the content on the website. According to Wikipedia, "The word co... Read more