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Sex4Sale Episode 7: Prostitution

Airs at: Tue, 11/28/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
This is the seventh in a ten-episode series.  This installment takes on the subject of prostitution.  No, it's not the world's oldest profession.  It is a major part of the business of sex here in Portland, and it has both legal and illegal dimensions.  We talk with Red Rei... Read more

Sex4Sale: Episode 7, Prostitution

Airs at: Tue, 11/28/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This is the seventh in a ten-episode series.  This installment takes on the subject of prostitution.  No, it's not the world's oldest profession.  It is a major part of the business of sex here in Portland, and it has both legal and illegal dimensions.  We talk with Red Rei... Read more

Sex4Sale: Episode 4, Sex Industry Workers

Airs at: Thu, 11/16/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This is the fourth episode in KBOO's series on the business of sex in Portland.  In this episode we describe the different types of workers who make their livings in the sex industry.  Guests include people who work in prostitution, stripping, porn film-making and sex toy s... Read more

Sex4Sale: Episode 6, Sex Trafficking

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO news talks with FBI Agent Denise Biehen, US Dept. of Justice Attorney Scott Kerin and Undercover Agent A and Officer Chris Lindsay of the Portland Police Bureau to understand sex traffing in the Portland area.  We focus on the crime, how it's defined and reported and w... Read more

Sex4Sale Episode 6: Sex Trafficking

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
KBOO news talks with FBI Agent Denise Biehen, US Dept. of Justice Attorney Scott Kerin and Undercover Agent A and Officer Chris Lindsay of the Portland Police Bureau to understand sex traffing in the Portland area.  We focus on the crime, how it's defined and reported and w... Read more

Michelle Alexander

Airs at: Sun, 12/10/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week we hear from Michelle Alexander about building the movement for racial justice and drug policy reform. Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar, and the author of The New Jim Crow. She delivered a keynote address at... Read more

News and Public Affairs Day: Community Forum on Police Accountability

Airs at: Fri, 12/01/2017 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
KBOO reporters Sam Bouman and Jasmin Moneymaker speak with a panel of guests with many years and varieties of experience advocating for greater accountability, reform and positive change in Portland's sytem of law enforcement. The discussion is rooted in the City of Portlan... Read more

A Guide to What We Don't Know about the Universe

Airs at: Mon, 12/11/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson have co-authored We Have No Idea: A Guide to The Unknown Universe. Jorge Cham is the creator of PHD Comics and Daniel Whiteson is a particle physicist at the University of California Irvine. In this book they explain everything we DON'T kno... Read more

December 8 Portland Resistance Calendar

Airs at: Fri, 12/08/2017 at 5:00pm - Fri, 12/15/2017 at 5:00pm
  Updated Tuesday, December 12 Hey! The FCC is about to vote to kill net neutrality.  Only Congress can stop it. Representative Walden (OR), Representative Herrera Beutler (WA), Representative Heck (WA), Representative Larsen (WA), Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (... Read more

Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD

Airs at: Mon, 12/11/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  We head to Soseongri, a small village nestled in the mountains of Seongju County. There, grandmas and grandpas in the 70s, 80s, and 90s have gone from quietly farming to organizing daily protests and blockades to stop THAAD. THAAD is part of a missile defense system that... Read more