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Captain Ahab & U.S. Empire: Chris Hedges

Airs at: Tue, 08/07/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The demonic Captain Ahab in Melville’s epic novel Moby Dick represents a quest for power and domination that is a death wish. Hubris will doom Ahab and his Pequod crew, all perish except for Ishmael. Is there a larger lesson to be learned? Is the United States much diffe... Read more

From Shrinking Bears Ears, Approving Pipelines and Pocahontas: What Trump Means to Indian Country

Airs at: Wed, 08/01/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  What is the scope of the threat Trump poses to Indian Country and what do Native Americans have at stake in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections?    Native American Portland-based journalist Jacqueline Keeler leads a discussion with Native American leaders from across th... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Julie Whipple

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the crash of United Airlines Flight 173, in an empty lot near the corner of Portland’s Northeast 157th Avenue and East Burnside, just about 9 miles from where we are now in our KBOO studios. Our News In Depth guest Julie Whipple not ... Read more

Talking with Cameron Whitten, new interim ED of Portland's Q Center.

Airs at: Tue, 07/31/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
We'll by talking with Caermon Whitten, activist and organizer, about the Q Center and his role as new iterim ED. The Q Center has needs! including raising funds for some building repair. The Q Center also hosts programming related to GLBTQ community needs.   After, we'll ... Read more

Finding Oneself: Victoria Price and Bobby Bluejacket

Airs at: Tue, 07/31/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Victoria Price, author of Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography, discusses with John Shuck her latest book, The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My Truest Self.  Despite doing “all the right things” to successfully rebuild her life and her finances after a period of de... Read more

The War on Reproductive Rights

Airs at: Sun, 07/29/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies we hear from Lynn Paltrow, founder and executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, and Dorothy E. Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and th... Read more

Criminalization of Pregnancy

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Discussion about the Supreme Court, reproductive rights, and the efforts by some to use the criminal justice system to control people's lives and health featuring Lynn Paltrow with National Advocates for Pregnant Women, and acclaimed scholar of race, gender, and the law Pro... Read more

Say Her Name! NIA WILSON

Airs at: Thu, 07/26/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  A white man in Oakland fatally stabs a Black woman and injures her sister on Sunday evening, July 22. Eighteen-year-old Nia Wilson died at the scene, her 26-year-old sister Letifah Wilson was hospitalized. The incident took place on the platform of the BART train, the Ba... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Vancouver Mall racist attack

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
On May 11, 2018, Mykel Mosley, a black teen, stepped out of the Vancouver Mall and became angry at a large pickup flying a Donald Trump flag. Mosley yelled out an obscenity about Trump. Then three men jumped out of the truck and chased Mosley, eventually spinning him to the... Read more

Red Fawn Fallis and State Sponsored Sexual Assault of a Native woman in North Dakota

Airs at: Wed, 07/25/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Jacqueline Keeler's Not Your Disappearing Indian podcast is taking over Wednesday Talk Radio this Summer.  Find more episodes on iTunes and Soundcloud. http://tiyospayenow.blogspot.com/2018/07/i-was-born-free-red-fawn-and-state.html Native American journalist Jacqueline... Read more