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Discrimination on the Farm in Oregon and the Nation

Airs at: Wed, 02/17/2010 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
Black History Month special: Minority farmers in Oregon; National Black Farmers Association's Fight Only 76 of Oregon's 38,553 farms are operated by African-Americans, according to the most recent Census of Agriculture. Why is that? Miriam interviews PSU black studies pr... Read more

Signs of Change

Airs at: Wed, 02/17/2010 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
Tonight on Circle A Radio, we’ll take you on an audio tour through the art exhibition: Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now.  Hundreds of posters, photographs, video, and audio representing more than forty years of activism, political protest, and social  j... Read more

Will Aaron Campbell's death finally bring police accountability to Portland?

Airs at: Thu, 02/11/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Will Aaron Campbell's death finally bring police accountability to Portland?   A Multnomah County grand jury this week found no criminal wrongdoing by Portland police officer Ronald Frashour in the Jan. 28 fatal shooting of Aaron Campbell. The death of an unarmed young ... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 02/04/10

Airs at: Thu, 02/04/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Haiti, Race and International Adoption The arrest of 10 American Baptists for attempting to take children out of Haiti without permission has rekindled the debate over international adoption. Many Americans believe the plight of Haitian children more than justifies removal ... Read more

Zionism and Anti-Semitism

Israel's anti-Semitic friends Tony Greenstein, The Electronic Intifada, 3 November 2009Michal Kaminski, who opposes Poland apologizing for the massacre of hundreds of Jews in a Polish village in 1941, on a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. (ECR) - There... Read more

Support grassroots relief efforts in Haiti!

KBOO hosts an all-day on-air Fundraiser for Haiti on February 18th! Click here for more info on KBOO's Fundraiser for Haiti Click here for a list of upcoming benefits for Haiti in Portland | Click here for KBOO audio reports on the situation Haiti relief efforts: We have done... Read more

OPEN LINES discussion on Supreme Court ruling regarding campaign finance limits and...

Airs at: Thu, 01/21/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
OPEN LINES discussion on Supreme Court ruling regarding campaign finance limits and other current issues on the top KBOO Listeners' minds....Join co-hosts Jo Ann Bowman and Dave Mazza every Thursday morning as they bring you informative guests and lively discussions about t... Read more

January 18, 2010 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 01/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Hosted by Bill Resnick, this show features music of the Great Depression, a discussion of what Obama has and has not done to create jobs, putting Haitian poverty in historical context, a conversation about how to save journalism (and what it needs to be saved from); and a ... Read more

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

Airs at: Mon, 01/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Portland writer Heidi V. Durrow's first novel The Girl Who Fell From the Sky.  It's about being neither black or white in a world  that thinks in black and white. An archive of Larry's reviews can be found  here. Read more

Clifford Walker

Airs at: Wed, 01/20/2010 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
Clifford Walker has been asking for several years "why don't we remove the symbols of racial oppression from our currency?". "I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery." - Marquis de L... Read more