Environment/Climate

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Love & Justice: Cornel West

Airs at: Fri, 05/19/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
  From Tamir Rice to Akai Gurley the names of African American men and boys killed by police keep piling up. The lack of a grand jury indictment in the Michael Brown case in Ferguson sparked a protest movement with signs and shouts of “Hands Up. Don’t Shoot” and “Black Li... Read more

SACRIFICE ZONES

Airs at: Mon, 06/05/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
As the fossil fuel industry turns up its pressure to turn the Pacific Northwest into a fossil fuel export hub, a Thin Green Line stands in its way. On this special one-hour edition of Locus Focus, we premiere Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein's latest radio documentary, SA... Read more

CAFOS IN OREGON

Airs at: Mon, 05/22/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Oregon is already home to one of the nation’s largest industrial-scale dairy operations. Located near Boardman, Threemile Canyon Farms houses 70,000 cows and is a major source of ammonia and other pollution emissions. On March 31, despite unprecedented public opposition, th... Read more

Digest by Gregory Pardlo

Airs at: Thu, 06/29/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Gregory Pardlo's Digest, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry "He explores what is American, what is African American, what is the Other, what is city, what is suburban, what is personal and what is persona. Digest offers a changing, rich landscape of verse, both haunting... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for May 15, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 05/15/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this membership drive edition of the Old Mole, and we hear: 1. Nick Buxton talks about his book on how corporations and the military are dealing with climate change. 2. Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken, our Left and the Law experts, review the good, the bad... Read more

The Corporate-Military Approach to Climate Change

Airs at: Mon, 05/15/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Activist and writer Nick Buxton talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how the military and corporations are dealing with climate change -- recognizing its reality but protecting only their own interests. Buxton is co-editor of The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the... Read more

David Barsamian joins Abe & Joe LIVE FROM KBOO!

Airs at: Tue, 05/16/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
  Abe & Joe are joined in-studio by KBOO favorite David Barsamian during the Spring Membership Drive.  Call in with your support at (877) 500-5266.  Call in with your questions at (503) 231-8187 One of America's most tireless and wide-ranging investigative journalists, Da... Read more

Interview: Mercy Corps' South Sudan Director

Airs at: Mon, 05/08/2017 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
The United Nations on Monday declared that 1 million children have fled from conflict and famine in South Sudan. According to a joint press release from the UN Children’s Fund and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, another million children are displaced within the coun... Read more

NO ONE EATS ALONE

Airs at: Mon, 05/15/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In today's fast-paced, fast-food world we all seem to be eating alone, all the time - whether it's at our desks or in the car. And as much as we feel cut off from our friends and families, we certainly feel even more disconnected from all the other people in our vast foodsc... Read more

Borne by Jeff Vandermeer

Airs at: Thu, 05/25/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Book Riot, Chicago Reader, The Week, and Publishers Weekly. "Supremely literary, distinctly unusual . . . VanderMeer’s deep talent for worldbuilding takes him into realms more remini... Read more