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Dan Barker, God the Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction

Airs at: Sun, 05/08/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
America’s leading atheist, the co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and co-host of Freethought Radio, Dan Barker, talks about his latest book, God the Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction (audiobook)   The roots of the book go to Richard Dawkins’ famous... Read more

The Struggle Inside & Out: Supporting Prisoner Strikes

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli will interview activist Ben Turk.  A long term activist supporting all prisoners including Political Prisoners, Turk is connected to several different movements and organizations working around national prisoner strikes.  We will discuss the upcoming Septemb... Read more

The World is Churning

Airs at: Fri, 05/13/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
    Join us for the second part of our in depth conversation with renowned storyteller, author and scholar of mythology,  anthropology and phsycology, Michael Meade. Some of his books include Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Soul and Why the World Doesn't End, ... Read more

John Loftus, How to Defend the Christian Faith: Advice from An Atheist

Airs at: Sun, 05/01/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
John Loftus was an evangelical minister.  He has several degrees in Christian apologetics.  He pastored churches and taught at Christian colleges.  Then he left it all.   He has written a dozen books with titles such as Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Ch... Read more

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 04/28/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Film Show
  In this extended version of our interview with attorney turned filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, Jenn Chavez asks Mr Wiseman about the subjects that inspire him, his detached style of filmmaking, and his success in producing and distributing films outside the studio system. ... Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE salutes ORNETTE COLEMAN tonight at 8pm

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
Join the A DIFFERENT NATURE Collective tonight for a kind of radio primer on Ornette Coleman, as some of us share what recordings we still have of his most pivotal and radical music from our collections and reflect on the life and turbulent times of one of modern music's mo... Read more

Century Of Lies for May 1, 2016

Airs at: Sun, 05/01/2016 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week: more from the recent UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs, the UNGASS. We speak with Adam Eidinger with DC Marijuana Justice; author, journalist, and hemp advocate Doug Fine; and radical journalist and drug policy reformer Enrico Fletzer. Read more

Teressa Raiford's Attorney Matt McHenry Speaks with KBOO's Joe Meyer

Teressa Raiford's Attorney Matt McHenry Speaks with KBOO's Joe Meyer. On April 21st, Ms Raiford was found non-guilty of disorderly conduct. Today, McHenry and Meyer review the trial including:  the several motions to dismiss; inconsistency of police testimony; selective p... Read more

Prison Pipeline Hosts - Spring Fundraiser Edition

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Join hosts Amy Johnson, Adam Carpinelli, Emma Lugo and others for this special Spring Fundraiser Edition of Prison Pipeline.  Prison Pipeline is hosted on KBOO community radio, 90.7 Fm and KBOO needs your support to maintain operations.  Unique community programming like Pr... Read more

KBOO and the Center for Intercultural Organizing Criminalization Podcast

The Center for Intercultural Organizing and KBOO Community Radio, with support from Oregon Humanities, has created a podcast that focuses on addressing the questions of how our communities define “crime” and “criminals”, the effects of labeling communities as “criminal”, an... Read more