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Labor Education Resource Center: A Participatory Learning Experience

Airs at: Mon, 04/03/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Join hosts Tina Turner-Morfitt, Dr. Audrey Terrell,  and Ms. Deborah Hall in a discussion with Sherman Henry,  the new Career Instructor for the Labor Education and Research Center also known as LERC. LERC was established in 1977 at the University of Oregon. LERC serves a... Read more

Cesar Chavez Day Special Programming

Airs at: Fri, 03/31/2017 at 5:00pm - 8:00pm
This Friday, 3/31, is the birthday and nationally-recognized holiday (since 2014) to acknowledge UFW founder and farm labor organizing champion, Cesar Chavez.   KBOO will be airing Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta speeches from our archives, and from those of sister sta... Read more

10 Steps to End Mass Incarceration in America

Airs at: Thu, 03/30/2017 at 8:00am - Fri, 03/31/2017 at 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
   Howell Woltz speaks from personal experience. He was arrested, illegally denied bail, and unlawfully held for seven years by the U.S. Government, though never convicted in or by any court of jurisdiction. Woltz vividly illustrates each of his suggested reforms with r... Read more

Healing the Health Care Blues

Airs at: Mon, 03/27/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
The TrumpDoesn'tCare Act has gone down in flames.  Will universal, single-payer Medicare for All rise to replace it?  Norman Sylvester, master blues musician and organizer, along with Betsy Zucker, nurse and union activist, talk about the state of health care politics an... Read more

Reforming PPB: Kathleen Saadat

Airs at: Mon, 03/20/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  In June of 2016 Kathleen Saadat resigned her position as chair of a community panel created to help monitor Portland police reforms in the wake of a federal justice investigation. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in a family committed to justice and education,... Read more

Lincoln County Aerial Spray Ban Measure on May Ballot

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
A group in Lincoln County, Oregon, has put a measure on the May ballot that would ban aerial spraying of pesticides and herbicides. Lincoln County Community Rights wrote Measure 21-177, which also includes language reinforcing the rights of the community—that is, Lincoln ... Read more

guess who's coming to radio??!! on 03/09/17

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
  Part 2 of Guess Who's Coming to Radio from  3/9/17 Catch the first hour here: http://kboo.fm/media/56313-fuller-conversation-dr-jared-ball-and-music-al-jarreau Read more

A (fuller) conversation with Dr. Jared A. Ball, and the music of Al Jarreau

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Jared A. Ball has been on the airwaves of KBOO several times; in interviews related to news programming, on airings of Hard Knock Radio, and even on 'guess who's coming to radio??!!' (in a segment on A Tribe called Quest and Phife Dawg). However, we had been wanting to d... Read more

Seattle IWW Reflects on UW Shooting One Month Later

Airs at: Thu, 02/23/2017 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
The Industrial Workers of the World, also known as Wobblies, and IWW, are notorious for doing what bosses view as causing trouble in workplaces. They call it worker organizing and are mounting grassroots campaigns across an array of industries, and their reach is global.... Read more

Teachers and Social Justice Unionism

Airs at: Mon, 02/27/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Teachers unions with Social Justice Caucuses in the Portland area are the Portland Association of Teachers and the Reynolds Education Association.  Hyung Nam of PAT and Stephen Siegel of REA discuss their efforts to forge teacher-community alliances to save and improve p... Read more