Civil Rights/Human Rights

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Portland poet Nastashia Minto, author of "Naked"; and the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival

Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2019 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
We'll be talking with Nastashia Minto, author of the new poetry collection, 'Naked': I never truly understood the beauty of another being until I began to find and love myself. Minto is a Georgia-born African American woman living and working in Portland. Reema Zaman call... Read more

David Easley, Resisting From Inside

Airs at: Mon, 04/15/2019 at 4:00pm - Fri, 04/19/2019 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  The Final Straw Radio
David Easley of Ohio IWOC & Jasper of FOM ****This show carries a heavy content warning for institutionalized violence against incarcerated people, suicide, and issues related to mental wellness//unwellness.****** This week I’m sharing a conversation with David Easley, an ... Read more

Expunging Criminal Records

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2019 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
  This show will air 6:30 PM on May 27, 2019.  Karen James speaks with Nikki Thompson about expunging criminal records for youth and adults.  Nikki, an attorney with the Metropolitan Public Defenders Community Law Division, runs the MPD Expungement Clinic.  A motion to set... Read more

Filmmaker Josh Tucker discusses Alaska's proposed pebble mine

Airs at: Thu, 04/18/2019 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Part 1 of KBOO reporter Emily Gresham Beamer’s in-depth interview with Filmmaker Josh Tucker about the Pebble mine proposed in southwest Alaska, and his documentary ‘We can’t eat gold’.   The proposed open-pit gold mine, located in Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed, would be t... Read more

Resist Like Our Lives Depend On It

Airs at: Fri, 04/19/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Join us for a conversation with Michael G. Long, editor of the new book We The Resistance: Documenting a History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States. Compiling first hand accounts of non-violent resistance movements from 1657 through the present, Michael Long contex... Read more

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Day

May 3 is Asian/Pacific American Day on KBOO! In recognition of the month of May as APA Heritage Month, KBOO is airing all Asian/Pacific American (APA) KBOO programming on May 3, 2019 from 8am-4pm. Tune in to hear our favorite an all new Pacific Underground, music playlist ... Read more

An Interview on the Inside

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Join host Isabelle Sinclair in an interview with currently incarcerated aspiring writer Damon Lee Petrie. Damon has been incarcerated at Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) for the past 26 years, and shares his insight about life within the prison system, and about the fundamen... Read more

PTSD, Psychedelics, and Medical Cannabis

Airs at: Sun, 04/21/2019 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies we speak with Arnold Diehl from Floridians For Freedom about their marijuana legalization initiative; with Bryan Krumm, NP, about medicinal cannabis and PTSD; and with Rick Doblin, PhD, executive director and founder of MAPS, about psychedelics,... Read more

Abolishing the Death Penalty

Airs at: Mon, 04/15/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Old Mole's Left & the Law team, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker, review the moratorium in California on the death penalty and the political shifts in support for capital punishment. They also comment on a recent case emphasizing the cruelty of putting people to death.  Read more

Buscando America on 04/16/19

Airs at: Tue, 04/16/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En este episodio conoce a las Histriónicas Hermanas Hímenez desde el mercado Jacarandas. Desde el sur de México un reporte de Torrente sobre la huelga de hambre  que sucede en cárceles de  Chiapas. También escucha sobre la detención de Julian Assange y el siniestro que dest... Read more