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Airs at: Tue, 01/21/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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A weekly one-hour progressive radio show featuring lectures & interviews with progressive thinkers.


Every Tuesday from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM.

Alternative Radio, established in 1986, is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the US, Canada, Europe and beyond. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.



Our program is carried by over 125 radio stations and heard by millions of listeners. It is produced by David Barsamian in Boulder, Colorado.



Alternative Radio is sustained by donations and by your purchases of season subscriptions, recordings and transcripts. You can make a donation, including a recurring amount charged to your credit card each month, from our donations page.



Because Alternative Radio is a syndicated program, we don't have the permissions from them to post their audio files or transcripts. If you go to the Alternative Radio website, you can download their interviews and lectures for a very low price, and help support their work.

Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Current

Alternative Radio on 12/04/12

Airs at: Tue, 12/04/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Bassam Haddad - Inside Syria (interview) (Please note: This is a change in the schedule for Alternative Radio. The previously scheduled program featuring Noam Chomsky will now be heard on December 11th.) Syria is a mosaic of ethnic and religious groups. The minority Alawites... Read more

Alternative Radio on 11/27/12

Airs at: Tue, 11/27/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Gar Alperovitz on Beyond Capitalism (lecture) Gar Alperovitz is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. He is the author of numerous books, including Making a Place For Community, and America Beyond Capit... Read more

Alternative Radio on 11/20/12

Airs at: Tue, 11/20/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Russell Means speaks on "Knowing Who You Are: Lessons from Native America" Russell Means, an Oglala Dakota and a prominent voice in the continuing struggle for indigenous rights, was a founding member of AIM and one of its leading spokespersons. He was Chief Executive Offi... Read more

Alternative Radio on 11/13/12

Airs at: Tue, 11/13/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Michelle Alexander – Incarceration Nation (lecture) Michelle Alexander is Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University and author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." She is a civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. As an ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 11/06/12

Airs at: Tue, 11/06/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Peter Neill – Sea to Shining Sea: The Water Crisis (lecture) As the climate is getting warmer and the population is growing, many parts of the world are running out of water. The earth is rapidly drying up as demand far outstrips supply.  Global consumption of water is doubl... Read more

Alternative Radio on 10/30/12

Airs at: Tue, 10/30/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Juliet Schor – Plenitude & the End of Business As Usual (lecture) Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Before joining Boston College, she taught at Harvard in the Department of Economics. She is author of many books including The Overworked American, Do ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 10/23/12

Airs at: Tue, 10/23/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Paul Cienfuegos - Ending Corporate Rule (lecture) Modern corporations trace their origins to the trading companies of imperial Europe more than three centuries ago. Their rise in power and influence has been a steady trajectory to the point where today they are the dominant ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 10/16/12

Airs at: Tue, 10/16/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Joseph Stiglitz – The Age of Inequality (lecture) Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor at Columbia, is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics. He was chair of the Council on Economic Advisors under Clinton. He also served as senior vice president and chief economist ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 10/09/12

Airs at: Tue, 10/09/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Arundhati Roy - Capitalism: A Ghost Story (lecture) Arundhati Roy is the celebrated author of “The God of Small Things” and winner of the prestigious Booker Prize. “The New York Times” calls her, "India's most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence." ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 10/02/12

Airs at: Tue, 10/02/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Arun Gupta – Beyond Occupy (lecture) The Occupy movement caught everyone by surprise. When the first tents went up on Wall Street on Sept 17, 2011, the experts and the media soothsayers and sages were befuddled. Who were these people? What did they want? After many years... Read more