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Interview with Michael Liebowitz, co-author of "Down the Rabbit Hole"

Airs at: Mon, 04/17/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Please join us on Monday, April 17th 6:30 pm for Prison Pipeline on KBOO Community Radio as we talk with author Michael Liebowitz about his new book, “Down the Rabbit Hole: How the Culture of Corrections Encourages Crime”, written with Brent McCall.   As reviewed in Psych... Read more

Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee on 04/16/23

Airs at: Sun, 04/16/2023 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee
  Music for the moment and pondering Liberty--also the origins of Louie Louie.   References Blaschke, F. (2002, December 13). Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/Frijaz. Wiktionary. Retrieved April 16, 2023, from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/fri... Read more

Andrew Meier, author of Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty

Airs at: Thu, 04/13/2023 at 10:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
We have a very special episode of Jonesy for you today, so special in fact, we needed an extra hour, 90 minutes in total, to get it all in. Our guest is Andrew Meier, author of the new multi-generational biography Morgenthau: Power, Privilege and the Rise of an American Dyn... Read more

Washington State Post-Blake

Airs at: Wed, 04/12/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: New Washington State Drug Laws Post-Blake. Drug possession laws in Washington state were invalidated in 2021 by a state supreme court decision in the case of State v Blake. The legislature moved quickly to put some laws back in place but the me... Read more

Portland's Fukushima

Airs at: Mon, 04/17/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on March 13, 2023 Last month marked the 12th anniversary of the 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami. The tsunami caused the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. There were meltdowns of three of the Fukushima reactors, discharge of radioact... Read more

Victim's Rights, Decriminalization, and Public Safety

Airs at: Mon, 04/10/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
This week on Prison Pipeline: Victim’s Rights, Decriminalization, and Public Safety. On this edition of Prison Pipeline we hear from Lenore Anderson, Co-Founder and President of the Alliance for Safety and Justice, and Shakyra Diaz, Chief of Federal Advocacy at the Allianc... Read more

Solidarity and Community Mobilization

Airs at: Wed, 04/05/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Solidarity and Community Mobilization. We hear from Anton Basenko with the Ukrainian Network of People Who Use Drugs on the power of community mobilization in responding to the war in Ukraine, and from Magdalena Bartnik with the Precursor Found... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 10, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 04/10/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Hypocrisy of American Might: On the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, and the 50-year commemoration of the pullout of the last American troops from Vietnam, the U... Read more

Indigenous Rights

Airs at: Mon, 04/10/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers and Julian Ankney talk about Washington State University's upcoming virtual conference on April 21st and 22nd exploring the intersections of Native Sovereignty, Decolonization, Divestment, Reparations, and Environmental Justice. The conference is free and ... Read more

From Daniel Ellsberg

Airs at: Mon, 04/10/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Pentagon Papers thief and hero Daniel Ellsberg, antiwar and antinuclear activist who escaped lifelong imprisonment because of government misconduct, turned 92 this week. Terminally ill, he sent a powerful letter to friends and comrades. Norm Diamond reads from that letter a... Read more