2011 Spring Membership Drive Specials

Has Mayor Adams fixed Portland JTTF's problems?

Voices from the Edge

Has Mayor Adams fixed Portland JTTF's problems?
Thursday afternoon, Portlanders will have an opportunity to air their feelings about a Portland joining the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, or "JTTF." Mayor Adams has put forward a resolution (PDF) that he, other council members and some groups say would preserve Oregon constitutional and statutory constraints on Portland police when working within the JTTF. But does the mayor's "fix" provide adequate constraints to preserve Oregon's higher standard for civil liberties?
This week, Jo Ann and Dave will speak with David Fidanque, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, a group that is urging support for Mayor Adams's resolution. We'll be looking at the mayor's resolution and who supports it as well as the national JTTF picture in light of government reports of significant civil rights violations by the FBI and its partners engaged in terrorist investigations.

Exploring the money system that holds us hostage to a forever growing debt

Presswatch

Host Theresa Mitchell speaks with filmmaker Paul Grignon who produced "Money As Debt" and "Money As Debt II," which explores the baffling, fraudulent and destructive arithmetic of the money system that holds us hostage to a forever growing debt and how we might evolve beyond it to a new era.

http://www.moneyasdebt.net/

Setting Foreign Policy;The Increasing Influence of Our Professional Military

A Deeper Look

The Expansion Of Military Influence in determining US policy. Is it a threat to our form of Government?

Well Military insider Jonathan Stevenson thinks so. Contributing writer in the May Issue of Harper's Magazine and professor at the US Naval War College, he asks the Question. "Has the President lost control of his Generals?". Tune in to A Deeper Look, this Thursday morning at 9:30 am. Get a different and important view on the growing Military influence on Foreign policy.

Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them

Between the Covers

The guest is Wayne Pacelle, President of the Humane Society of the United States, and author of the new book, "The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them." Pacelle will discuss the deep links of the human-animal bond as wll as the conflicting implulses that have led us to betray this bond through widespread and systemic cruelty to animals.

Wayne Pacelle has been with the Humane Society of the U.S. for seventeen years. He has taken a special interest in law reform and has been a leading strategist in getting animal protection laws enacted by the direct action of the electorate.

Summer filmmaking education for youth

Behind the Screen

"I know what you did this summer"...

Host Natalie Butto features filmmaking education opportunities for youth this summer. Guests include representatives from NW Film Center, NW Documentary, and Project Youth Doc (Hollywood Theater/Film Action Oregon).

Tune in for an opportunity to become a KBOO member and receive film tickets.

wait for it- PRINCE ROGERS NELSON!!!

Guess Who's Coming to Radio??!!

stay tuned for a ONCE IN A LIFETIME opportunity, as we at 'guess who's coming to radio??!!' are bringing PRINCE ROGERS NELSON to you for a spring membership drive special!!! never let it be said that we don't explore many territories...  because we will be playing for you the reasons why prince is titled 'his royal badness'. 

amongst the b-sides, remixes and album cuts (with some 'favorites' here and there, of course!) we will also be playing tracks from associated artists such as sheila e, mazarati, morris day, jesse johnson, chaka khan and more! 

sure, we do indeed carry a deep love for 'the king of pop'- but real kings and queens are filled with humility, and are able to respect and make room for other regal contemporaries. so we present to you...  three hours of prince as a gift to you, good people of the community!

guess who's coming to radio!!!

Understanding the current nuclear crisis

Special Programming: Public Affairs

Stop Nuclear Madness

Join us all morning as we look at one of the world's most crucial issues, nuclear power.

"As a physician, I contend that nuclear technology threatens life on our planet with extinction. If present trends continue, the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink will soon be contaminated with enough radioactive pollutants to pose a potential health hazard far greater than any plague humanity has ever experienced."--Helen Caldicott

8AM - Positively Revolting with Ani and Lyn - The guest is Starhawk, ecofeminist witch and environmental activist.  Join in a discussion about how living with the specter of nuclear nightmare effects us and how we interact with the sacred. How can we work together to stop "the nuclear option", and heal what we've already done?

Starhawk is a committed global justice activist and organizer, and is one of the most respected voices in modern Goddess religion and earth-based spirituality. She is the author or coauthor of twelve books, including The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing, and The Earth Path. Her latest is The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, forthcoming in November 2011. She is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes. She has brought many innovative techniques of spirituality and magic to her political work. Her web site is www.starhawk.org.

9AM - A Primer on Radiation - Andrew Geller hosts. 

9:30AM - The History of Nuclear Accidents and Mistakes: An interview with Stephanie Cooke, journalist and author of In Mortal Hands, A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age.

10AM - Air Cascadia - Chris Andreae interviews two longtime anti-nuclear activists and authors, Harvey Wasserman and Karl Grossman

10:45AM - Helen Caldicott - A short excerpt from one of her compelling talks on Nuclear Madness.

11AM - Marianne Barisonek, author of "Cause and Effect: Understanding Chernobyl," speaks with Joe Mangano of the Radiation and Public Health Project about the health effects of radiation.

11:30AM - Marianne Barisonek speaks with Rudi Nussbaum, Professor Emeritus of Physics at Portland State University. His recent article is "Clinging to the Nuclear Energy Option is a Reckless Denial of Reality"

Gloria Steinem on Bread and Roses

Bread and Roses

With a career that spans more than five decades, Gloria Steinem has been at the forefront of feminism for nearly all of the modern movement's existence. Bread and Roses host Nico interviews the iconic feminist activist and journalist about the past, present and future of feminism, and how to bridge the gap between the so-called "sects" in the movement.

Join us this Friday, April 29 at 6 pm for this very special Bread and Roses event. 

IFCC Hiphop Lab

Special Programming: Music

Join us for this unique membership drive special, examining the world of hiphop music.

240 Minutes

La Ruleta

240 Minutes of straight on the air free improvisation of mixes between Rich and Alejandro.
Support our spring membership drive for the first 120 Minutes while enjoying the unexpected.

90.7 fm in Portland, oregon. www.kboo.fm/listen on internet
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240 Minutos de improvisacion libre de mezclas en vivo en el aire entre Rich y Alejandro.
Apoye nuestra campaña primaveral de membresía durante los prmeros 120 Minutos, mientras disfruta lo inesperado.

Grateful Dead Marathon

Grateful Dead & Friends

A truly free-for-all marathon.

Celebrating Jewish labor history through music

Portland Yiddish Hour

Tune in to the Yiddish Hour for a special May Day edition, where we'll celebrate Jewish America's long and rich musical-historical connections to work and labor unions.

Host Liz Schwartz also interviews Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, co-founder of Uri L'Tzedek (Awaken to Justice), the first Orthodox Jewish social action organization, which was created in 2008 in the wake of the Agriprocessors' scandal.

All Labor Has Dignity, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Economic Justice

More Talk Radio

Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Michael Honey about "All Labor Has Dignity," a book of speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on economic justice. Honey edited the book.

People forget that Dr. King was every bit as committed to economic justice as he was to ending racial segregation. As we struggle with massive unemployment, a staggering racial wealth gap, and the near collapse of our financial system, King's prophetic writings and speeches underscore King's relevance for today. Michael Honey's collection traces King's economic dream, from lectures to unions in the 1960s to addresses during his Poor People's Campaign, culminating with his momentous "Mountaintop" speech, delivered in support of striking black sanitation workers in Memphis.

Michael Honey is an educator who combines scholarship with civic engagement. He teaches African-American, civil rights and labor history and specializes in work on Martin Luther King, Jr. Honey holds the Fred T. and Dorothy G. Haley Endowed Professorship in the Humanities at the University of Washington, Tacoma (UWT) and previously served as the Harry Bridges Chair of Labor Studies for the University of Washington and as President of the Labor and Working-Class History Association.

Honey's work is noted for his extensive use of oral history, deep archival research, and vibrant writing style.

http://thekinglegacy.org/books/all-labor-has-dignity

Alternatives to cuts in Oregon budget, Islamophobia and Islamic feminism, Left and the Law

Old Mole Variety Hour

On the next Old Mole. Joe Clement Hosts and we hear about:

• An Interview: alternatives to cuts in the Oregon budget
• A Well Read Red: Islamophobia and Islamic feminism
• Another installment of The Left and the Law: Troy Davis and the death penalty

Why the Lower Snake River Dams are salmon killers

Locus Focus

RECOVERING A LOST RIVER: An Interview with Author Steven Hawley

In the Pacific Northwest, the Snake River and its wilderness tributaries were once some of the world’s greatest salmon rivers. As recently as a half century ago, they retained some of their historic bounty, with millions of fish returning to spawn. Now, due to four federal dams, the salmon population has dropped close to extinction. Efforts at salmon recovery through fish ladders, hatcheries, and even trucking them over the dams have failed.

On this episode of Locus Focus, host Barbara Bernstein talks with Steven Hawley, journalist and self-proclaimed “river rat.” In his new book RECOVERING A LOST RIVER, he recounts the story of the Snake River, its salmon, and its people and raises the fundamental questions of who should exercise control over natural resources and which interests should receive highest priority. Hawley's book also offers surprising counterpoints to the notion of hydropower as a cheap, green, and reliable source of energy, and challenges the wisdom of heavily subsidized water and electricity.

Steven Hawley, an environmental journalist, was among the first to write about the historic agreement to tear out Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Maine. Since then, his work has appeared in High Country News, Bear Deluxe, National Fisherman, OnEarth, Arizona Quarterly, the Oregonian, and Missoula Independent. He lives with his family along the Columbia River.

More information on breaching the Snake River Dams:

latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/05/salmon-recovery-snake-river-dams-columbia-river-endangered-species.html

http://www.wildsalmon.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91&Itemid=63

The Depression Cure: The 6 Step Program To Beat Depression Without Drugs

Healthwatch

Psychology professor Stephen Ilardi discusses his 6-step program to beat depression without drugs in his book "The Depression Cure."

Practical, straightforward and grounded in persuasive research, this book is recommended for anyone seeking an alternative approach to treating depression."--Library Journal

"Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters

Madness Radio

Host Will Hall speaks with Ethan Watters, author of "Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche," which looks at western mental disorders and pharmaceutical treatments are exported around the world."

The most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture across the globe has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters, says Ethan Watters in Crazy Like Us (Free Press), but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself. American-style depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anorexia have begun to spread around the world like contagions. Watters witnesses firsthand how Western healers often steamroll indigenous expressions of mental health and madness and replace them with our own. In teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we have been homogenizing the way the world goes mad. Cosponsored by Portland Hearing Voices.

www.crazylikeus.com/CRAZY_LIKE_US.html

I Learned It All the Hard Way: 8 Years of Mississippi Records

Special Programming: Music

Join us for I Learned It All The Hard Way: 8 Years of Mississippi Records. We're hosting a 4 Hour Membership Drive special celebrating the Eighth Anniversary of Mississippi Records featuring Eric Isaacson (Store) and Warren Hill (Label). Yep, special thank you gifts and birthday treats for listeners and KBOO members will be available!

African Culture / Politics

Special Programming: Public Affairs

Music of Lawrence D. 'Butch' Morris, part 6 of 6

A Different Nature

This is the sixth & final installment in out series on composer, conductor and cornetist Butch Morris. The first five parts have focused exclusively on Morris' practice of Conduction.  Here in the final program we will also hear other aspects of his work: small group inprovisation, film music and work with David Murray's Big Band. http://www.conduction.us/ host: Andy Hosch of Timbuktunes.

May Birthdays Membership Show

Vinyl Pajama Party

The May Morning Birthday Bouquet Show

Be sure to tune in this morning to The Vinyl Pajama Party as Brian and Philip bring to you a Spring Membership Extravaganza! Join us for an oh so - eclectic mix of artists who celebrate birth (hopefully their own?!) this month.

Call in to the air room at 503-231-8187 with your contributions (monetary or otherwise) and be a part of TRUE COMMUNITY RADIO, right here at KBOO, right here in Portland!

Simon Johnson on Megabanks: Too Big to Save

Alternative Radio

It was an unusual moment at the 2011 Oscars. Charles Ferguson, director of the award-winning documentary "Inside Job," told the audience, "Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong." There was some applause. Imagine if you or I drove away without paying for gas or stole a pizza. We'd be arrested. But if you commit a huge financial fraud you walk away with tons of money. The robber barons of the age are laughing as hapless citizens watch in dismay as they are taken to the cleaners. Are these the values U.S. politicians keep extolling and insist the world emulate? Why were these banks and their executives not punished? The lesson to be drawn?  Crime pays.

Simon Johnson teaches at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He is also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers. He is a well known commentator and writer on financial affairs and co-author of 13 Bankers.

Out Loud Special

Out Loud

Tonight our Membership Drive Special includes performer Belinda Carroll from Q Center Presents: The Vagina Monologues. We also welcome Poeina Suddarth to share a bit about her latest project The Bedroom Show, and she'll sing a few songs for us, while she's here. Tune in Tuesday at 6pm.

Until then, stay proud and live out loud! And thanks to all of our new members and thanks for the support to our renewing members too!

Tom May will join me live in the KBOO studio for this Spring Membership Drive Special

Pastures of Plenty

Host: Jack Bohl

Portland artist Tom May will join me live at 6 AM  for this Membership Drive special. Tom is a troubadour in the finest sense, having performed his own inspired compositions in every state of the Union as well as Ireland, England, Canada, Germany and Belgium. Tom has hosted every Winterfolk concert here in Portland since the innaugural version at the Horse Brass Pub back in 1978. He has recorded 12 albums and produces and hosts the nationally syndicated River City Folk radio show. Join us for some great songs and stories. During the show you will be able to get a copy of Tom's 12th- and arguably greatest- CD "Blue Roads, Red Wine" as a thank you gift for supporting KBOO!

Antonia Juhasz speaks on "Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill"

Political Perspectives

Journalist, activist and author Antonia Juhasz speaks on "Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill." Juhasz conducted hundreds of personal interviews during her time spent embedded within those communities most impacted by the disaster. She exposes the human failings and human cost of the largest oil disaster in American history—and shows how it could easily happen again.

The bike show hosts two cycling authors to discuss how bikes have changed the world for the better.

The Bike Show

This month we're joined by two authors to give differing views on how cycling has shaped the American landscape.

Sue Macy, author of Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) will bring her perspectives on how cycling shaped the landscape for women and how it continues to change.

Jes˙s Ilund·in-Agurruza, editor of Cycling -- Philosophy for Everyone: A Philosophical Tour de Force will talk about the essays chosen for his book and reveal why cycling effects us all -- even if you don't ride a bike.

Both author's books will be available as thank you gifts during our special pledge drive show as well as a special gift that may help you get you riding for the first time!

Words, Sounds and Power: Social Commentary through Music

Special Programming: Music

Focus on music that moves us to action from Woody Guthrie to Patti Smith to Michael Franti (to name a few). Robyn Shanti, former host of the Dharma Wheel, will take you on a musical journey to inspire your support for radio of, for and by the people!

Photo, Protest at UCR ARTSblock by UCRARTSblock

Entrepreneurship in Portland

Special Programming: Public Affairs

Finding Yashanee Vaughn

Voices from the Edge

Fourteen-year-old Yashanee Vaughn was last seen near a Taco Bell restaurant on Portland's Northeast 82nd Ave. on March 19. Vaughn was on her way to meet with her family. A missing persons report was filed on March 21, however, police viewed Vaughn as a runaway. Ten days later they upgraded Vaughn's status to missing and on March 31, Portland Police Chief Mike Reese announced Vaughn was likely killed that first evening she disappeared. A 16-year-old youth is being charged with her murder. Were police justified to view this as another runaway case? Did their delay in classifying Vaughn as missing reflect deeper institutional problems?

This week, Jo Ann and Dave speak with Vaughn's mother, Shaquita Lewis, and Kiante Griffin, Vaughn's cousin, about the missing girl and the family's struggle to find her.

Dr. Michio Kaku on Physics of the Impossible

Presswatch

Host Theresa Mitchell speaks with Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, best-selling author, and popularizer of science. He's the co-founder of string field theory (a branch of string theory), and continues Einstein's search to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into one unified theory. Michio's new book, Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel has already hit the NY Times Bestseller List.

http://mkaku.org/

Can we transform the suburbs into sustainable communities?

Fight the Empire

Host Per Fagereng speaks with Wendy Brown, author of "Surviving the Apocalypse in the Suburbs: The Thrivalist's Guide to Life Without Oil."

In the age of Peak Oil,environmental catastrophe and a failing economy it is imperative that we transform the suburbs into sustainable communities.

Surviving the Apocalypse in the Suburbs envisions a suburban evolution -- from isolated cookie-cutter houses with manicured lawns and 2-car garages to small, closely packed, productive, interdependent homesteads. This guide to simplifying suburbia and adopting a lower energy lifestyle breaks down all our basic needs and describes how they might be met after the loss of the modern conveniences we currently take for granted. From small-space gardening techniques and a guide to small livestock, to tips on cooking, heating, and sanitation options and much more, this is a complete guide to becoming more self-sufficient wherever you live.

Wendy Brown is a suburban homesteader growing roots (both literally and figuratively) in Southern Maine. Until 2005 her family was living the American Dream, complete with credit card debt, car payments and two mortgages. Concerns about the environment, Peak Oil, and the economy combined with a growing desire to live a more self-sufficient life caused her and her family to reevaluate their lives. The result has been a transition from a completely dependent, consumerist lifestyle to one of living debt-free in a comfortable, more energy efficient home in a desirable location with a bountiful garden.

What is the Price of Motherhood?

Between the Covers

Ann Crittenden talks about the 10th anniversary of her bestselling book "The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued." Ann shows how mothers are systematically disadvantaged and made dependent by a society that exploits those who perform its most critical work. Although women have been liberated, mothers have not.

Ann's Portland Event: What is the Price of Motherhood?

A benefit for Family Forward Oregon
Thursday, May 5th, 7-8:30PM
First Unitarian Church
1011 SW 12th Ave., Portland

Avel Gordley on her memoir Remembering the Power of Words

Black Book Talk

Hosts Patricia Welch, O.B. Hill and Emma Jackson Ford speak with former Oregon State Senator Avel Gordley about her memoir Remembering the Power of Words. Avel Gordly is the first African American woman elected to the Oregon State Senate. Remembering the Power of Words is the inaugural volume in the Women and Politics in the Pacific Northwest Series, and recounts the personal and professional journey of Ms. Gordly. OSU Press describes the book as:

a brave and honest telling of Gordly’s life. She shares the challenges and struggles she faced growing up black in Portland in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as her determination to attend college, the dedication to activism that took her from Portland to Africa, and her eventual decision to run for a seat in the state legislature.

That words have power is a constant undercurrent in Gordly’s account and a truth she learned early in life.

Important as a biographical account of one significant Oregonian’s story, the book also contributes “broader narratives touching on Black history (and Oregon’s place within it), and most particularly the politics associated with being an African American woman,” according to series editor Melody Rose.

Reggae Gifts For Reggae Mommas Day May 8th

Jamaica Nice

We will playing some serious reggae music & caribbean poetry by reggae mommas, and the sons and daughters that come from them.

Let's put a big dent in the KBOO thankyou gift box.

Author Jemiah Jefferson on The Eavesdrop!

The Eavesdrop

Join the ladies of "The Eavesdrop" tonight for a Spring Membership Drive special edition; always bringing you real conversations for real people!

Special guest and author, Jemiah Jefferson, stops by on "the 'Drop" to share news of her soon-to-be re-released, popular quartet of novels, Voice of the Blood, Wounds, Fiend and A Drop of Scarlet.

She'll help us visit/re-visit protagonists Ariane, Daniel and others, while we explore the world of horror, fiction, fantasy and erotica.

Find out how well this author "fit" into the multi-genred world and managed to succeed in the publishing world. She'll also share where her writings take her next!

An Entire Day of News and Public Affairs

Special Programming: Public Affairs

Join us as we celebrate news and public affairs programs on KBOO with an entire day of interviews and recently recorded speeches.

7:00 AM – Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez

8:00 AM – Positively Revolting Talk Radio with Ani Haines and Lyn Moelich. Their guest is activist Linda Stout, the former protégée of civil rights legend Septima Clark. Linda started the Piedmont Peace Project and is now the director of a new organization, Spirit in Action. Her new book is COLLECTIVE VISIONING.

9:00 AM – APA Compass - A forum for dialogue, exploration, and dissemination of issues pertinent to APA communities. Today’s show features an interview with Scott Kurashige, who has been collecting the speeches and writings of activist Grace Lee Boggs for the past ten years. He helped craft her work into the new book “Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century.”

10:00 AM – Air Cascadia with Chris Andreae. Her special guest is Will Potter, award-winning independent journalist based in Washington, D.C., who focuses on “eco-terrorism,” the animal rights and environmental movements, and civil liberties post-9/11. His new book is "Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege."

10:30 AM – Activist and former Green Party candidate David Cobb on “Creating Democracy and Challenging Corporate Rule.” He spoke in Corvallis on March 3rd.

12 noon – Noted linguist, philosopher and author Noam Chomsky speaks on “Prospects for Peace in the Middle East", recorded at Pacific University in April.

1:45 PM – Journalist and author Joshua Foer, author of “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything,” recorded in Portland in March

3:30 PM – Interview with Eva Golinger, winner of the International Award for Journalism in Mexico (2009) and author of “The Chavez Code.”

4:00 PM – Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez

5:00 PM – KBOO Evening News

6:00 PM – Bread and Roses, feminist news and public affairs
A different kind of Mother's Day
We will look at where Mother's Day came from and talk about meaningful ways of celebrating it. Hear from local organizations who will have Mother's Day events to recognize mothers who often are forgotten.
Hosted by Gabriele Ross

7PM – Music and interviews

Special guest Tim Xavier joins Tronic

Plugged In

For our Spring Pledge Drive show I will be joined by a very special guest - Tim Xavier!

Tim Xavier bio:

Tim Xavier's passion for music has kept him on the forefront of techno since his innovative releases a decade ago on Blueline. His incomparable, diverse production has transcended through the maturation of alternative dance music, and his dark, edgy sound has somehow remained in tact through his evolution. His current minimal/techno hybrid sound is featured on labels like Clink, Limited400 and Cocoon. He is the owner and chief engineer at Manmade Mastering in Berlin, and this sleepy-eyed coffee addict defines cool as he cuts master plates for many respected labels such as Spectral Sound, Wagon Repair, Minus, Mobilee, and B-Pitch.

Tim also plays a significant roll in the Clink and Limited400 label family, mastering all of the audio for each imprint and maintaining the labels profile as one of its premier artists. Limited400 is his solo production project that has been reignited in 2009, where he personally stencils his signature icon on a limited number of copies per release. He also collaborates with Tony Rohr as the Afternoon Coffee Boys, and with one of their genre's leading ladies, Camea, on various projects. Tim has an impressive discog of over 45 other releases out and a plethora of remixes, and his music has consistently received DJ support from all-stars like Richie Hawtin, Loco Dice, Magda, Ricardo Villalobos and many more.

More on Tim here :

Tim Xavier Facebook page

Tim Xavier SoundCloud

After his guest spot on the radio show, Tim will be DJ-ing at The Whiskey Bar! Click Here for more info on the event.

Mothers Night

Special Programming: Music

Tune in this Friday from MIDNIGHT til 6 am for KBOO's annual all-night FREAK-OUT of Frank Zappa's original renegades, THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION. THRILL to insane musical atrocities and early experiments in FREAKING OUT society and stirring up the cultural world in general. RARE recordings from the early 60s and 70s, interviews with ex-MOTHERS and special THANK YOU gifts (CDs, DVDs, books, T-shirts) for YOU when you call our pledge line to JOIN KBOO during the show!

Make some coffee and stay up with your Mothers!

Re-Imagining Sound Track: A Jazz Sensibility

Jazz Rap III

hosted by Jazz Rap III host, Yugen. Host Yugen Fardan Rashad presents an expose and juxtaposition of soundtrack sensibilities embedded in jazz composition. Artists featured include Terrence Blanchard, Miles Davis, John Barry, Bob Beldon, Jerry Goldsmith, Dave Grusin, and Herbie Hancock.

Klezmocracy and 3 Leg Torso visit with the Yiddish Hour

Portland Yiddish Hour

Yiddish Hour host Ed Kraus welcomes to the KBOO studios Ralph Huntley and Courtney VonDrehle from the Portland based groups Klezmocracy and 3 Leg Torso.

We'll talk about the Jewish roots of much of the music played by both ensembles, and how they "deconstruct" this material to make something entirely new and compelling.

CD's from both ensembles will be available as thank you gifts to listeners who call in a membership pledge during the Yiddish Hour.

Moon Over Morocco:The Adventures of Jack Flanders

Special Programming: Other

Moon Over Morocco - Hear the Entire 10 Hour Adventure!

Once in a far away land there existed a knowledge of natural magic that has been lost to modern man. Jack treks to Morocco, believing that in this primitive country, where magic remains an integral part of daily life, he may find this knowledge.

SUNDAY, MAY 10 STARTING AT 4 PM
TUNE IN FOR THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME!

Jack discovers far more than he expected when he steps through the Gate of Peacocks, the entrance to that lost world. Jack has stepped out of modern day Morocco and into the realm where the knowledge of magic is a requisite survival skill.

Sample a taste here!

The environments in Moon Over Morocco were recorded by author M. Fulton while traveling around that country. You'll hear the Medina, the Casbah, the music of the snake charmers, the lonely call to prayer from the minaret of the mosque, the dogs of Tangier as the moon becomes full, the music of the desert tribes recorded in the Sahara and Berber music recorded at festivals in the Grand Atlas and Rif Mountains. Music is recorded by Paul Bowles.

Featuring Robert Lesser as Kasbah Kelly, Dave Adams as Mojo Sam and Taurean Blacque as the Storyteller Mustafa.

Monday, May 9, 2011

Robert Whitaker on Anatomy of an Epidemic

More Talk Radio

Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Robert Whitaker, author of "Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America." Robert Whitaker probed into clinical studies in prestigious scientific journals, some dating back more than 50 years. He noticed a shocking anomaly. Psychiatric drugs have repeatedly been shown to worsen mental illness, to say nothing of the risks of liver damage, weight gain, elevated cholesterol and blood sugar, and reduced cognitive function they entail. The reality, he says, is that, because no one knows what causes mental illness, there’s no cure or palliation to be found in these pills.

Robert Whitaker returns to Portland on May 13-14 to focus on alternatives to psychotropic drugs. He will facilitate a conversation with the audience and a panel of mental health providers and peers on the current national movement to move our mental health care to a more holistic, effective and humane system.

Location: First Unitarian Church of Portland

Time: 7:00PM Friday, May 13th; Saturday, May 14, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Osama Bin Laden and US foreign policy

Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris will host this show dealing with the killing of Osama Bid Laden and US Foreign Policy:

Is Bin Laden Dead in Spirit too? Is he dead as martyr and inspiration? Is Al Quada Finished? Probably not. The United States appears to be trying to put down the Arab Spring, that is the democratic uprisings across the middle-east in an effort to maintain what they call "stability". The result? Continued dictatorships by the army and the wealthy -- and more foot soldiers for more Bin Ladens. Hear views from the Progressive Press – on the rise and fall and rise of Bin Ladens.

Also, what Howard Zinn’s videos can tell us about American Exceptionalism, 9/11, and the War on Terror.

Bent Skovmand's struggle to keep precious plant genetic resources free and accessible to everyone

Locus Focus

THE VIKING IN THE WHEAT FIELD: An Interview with Author Susan Dworkin

Genetic diversity is nature's path to survival. But over the course of agricultural history human beings have done an exceptional job at narrowing the genetic diversity of the crops we grow and eat. The narrowing of the genetic pool ultimately results in crop failures and famine when disease or pestilence strikes. For the past century several scientists have worked tirelessly to rebuild a repository of seed varieties from around the world that can be used as breeding stock to breed new varieties of crops, such as wheat, that are resistant to whatever the current pestilence may be. On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Susan Dworkin, whose book THE VIKING IN THE WHEAT FIELD, portrays the struggle of scientist Bent Skovmand to preserve the world's harvests, by insisting on keeping precious plant genetic resources free and accessible to farmers and breeders everywhere. The story of Skovmand, who died in 2007, is especially relevant in this age of genetically engineered crops, as Monsanto and other chemical companies jealously guard patents of plant breeding and sue farmers whose crops are accidentally contaminated by their neighbors' GMO crops.

Susan Dworkin has written several biographies, including The Nazi Officer's Wife, and her articles have appeared in numerous magazines.

Are You Tired and Wired?

Healthwatch

Marcelle Pick, author, nurse practitioner and medical advisor to Healthy Living Magazine discusses her new book Are You Tired and Wired? She explores why people are suffering through the day irritable, forgetful, depressed, craving sweets, exhausted and yet unable to sleep well at night. Learn the underlying causes of being tired and wired and how to break the cycle.

A Special Eastside Sound with Lewi Longmire playing a live set and Brendan Phillips stopping by

Eastside Sound

Tune in KBOO 90.7fm Portland Monday May 9, 2011 from 2pm until 4pm

The Eastside Sound presents a Spring Membership Drive show replete with:

New releases! - Canadian music! - Tape archive gems!

PLUS

A Lewi Longmire live acoustic set!

and

Something Very Special Indeed!...

Thanks for Listening to and Supporting Your Community Radio

6:00 PM–8:00 PM

Free Versus Fair Trade, a Two Hour Special

Labor Radio

Local, national, and international guests share the perspective of working people, as three more free trade agreements head to Congress:

• Korea, the biggest volume deal since NAFTA
• Colombia, where more unionists are killed than in the rest of the world combined and whose number of displaced persons is rivaled only by Sudan, and
• Panama, the country with financial regulation so lax an intern could set up a fake corporation in minutes, over the phone.

Hear the voices of need before greed and support Portland’s Community Radio Station, KBOO, during Spring Membership Drive.

Co-hosted by Bill Zimmerman and John Walsh.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Brian Tokar on Climate Justice

Alternative Radio

Brian Tokar – Climate Justice (lecture)

Earth Days come and go. Wonderful speeches are made. Corporations, the biggest polluters, take out ads assuring the public they are green and are dedicated to preserving the environment. And then it’s plunder and exploit business as usual. Planet Earth, the ship we are all passengers on is gradually going down. Moving deck chairs around is no solution. Given the urgency of the situation and the level of threat to humankind the lack of an urgent response is astonishing. The climate crisis is a justice issue, not an esoteric debate among scientists. Will the super rich survive inside a bubble-enclosed, fortified, gated community while the rest of humanity faces the consequences of climate change? No civilization has survived the destruction of its environment. Nor will ours.

Brian Tokar is director of the Institute for Social Ecology in Plainfield, Vermont. He lectures widely on a variety of environmental and political topics. He is the author of “Toward Climate Justice,” “The Green Alternative,” and “Earth for Sale.”

Hand2Mouth & Cirque du Soleil

Stage and Studio

Tune in for a membership drive edition of Stage & Studio, Tuesday, May 10 at 11am on KBOO 90.7FM. This week: a Pushing Boundaries feature story on "Uncanny Valley" from Hand2Mouth Theatre, backstage thoughts on "Dralion"from Cirque du Soleil, and the latest installment of Writers Read with poet Laurence Overmire.

We'll also offer tickets to Hand2Mouth, Cirque du Soleil, Portland Center Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Fest at Hollywood Theatre.

Please support arts coverage and make your membership donation to KBOO today!

Hand2Mouth in Rehearsal

First up, a new feature in the year long Pushing Boundaries series. Dmae profiles Hand2Mouth and their new show "Uncanny Valley". We'll sit in on one of their rehearsals, and hear from director Jonathan Walters, performer Faith Helma and dramaturg Alex Huebsch. They'll tell us about how they created a play from scratch during a year of rehearsals and creation, from hours and hours of improv at the beginning, to the finished show they have now. And they'll talk about how they make memories come alive.

Poet Laurence Overmire

Next, we have the latest installment of Writers Read. Laurence Overmire will read "An Actor Prepared", a poem from his new book, "Gone Hollywood". He's a former professional actor and now poet. Overmire's book will be released Saturday, May 14 at 6 pm the Singer Hill Cafe.

Dralion

Finally, we chat backstage with Esther Daack, a former Portlander who's now touring with Cirque du Soleil's "Dralion", which will be coming to Portland next month. The show mixes dragon and lion, East and West. The shows includes Chinese acrobatics, along with their usual multidisciplinary style.

Pushing Boundaries is a year-long project that explores artists and arts groups pushing physical, emotional and artistic boundaries in their work and it's made possible with funding by the Regional Arts and Culture Council.

You can hear Stage & Studio live at the KBOO.FM or on 90.7FM live at 11am Tuesdays.

Or you can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes so you don’t have to miss a show.

And always browse our archive of shows at the official Stage and Studio website.

Tom Cramer on his new show at Laura Russo

Art Focus

Tom Cramer will be my guest this week on Art Focus. His new show features Oregon landmarks. It's like he went all over the world in his technique, skills and interests and brought it all back home. Tom is always fun and I'm looking forward to the interview.

EPA and Portland Water

Special Programming: Public Affairs

Stephanie Coontz, talks about 'A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique at the Dawn of the 60s

Talk Radio

Royal wedding got you down? Are Barbie-style women still stuck on their pedestals? And what about the rest of us? Are you a woman -- or a man -- who lately feels like everything's 'back to the 60s?' Tune in for Wednesday Morning Talk Radio when our guest is Stephanie Coontz, author of 'A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique at the Dawn of the 60s.'

'..A Strange Stirring reveals how a generation of women came to realize their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn't reflect a personal inadequacy but rather a social and political injustice. Coontz examines women's changing status from the 1920s through the 1950s, compares the dilemmas of working-class and middle-class women, white and black, in the early 1960s, and illuminates the new mystiques and new possibilities facing men and women today'

Noam Chomsky speaks on "Global Hegemony: The Facts, The Images"

Political Perspectives

Noted intellectual and author Noam Chomsky spoke about the current state of the economy, the assault on social welfare programs, and the prospects for resistance and hope in the years to come. He spoke at the University of Oregon in Eugene on April 20th.

Recorded by Will Seaman of KBOO and pdxjustice.org

Glen and Jim talk veggies and fruits. Plus Taggart Siegel.

The Dirtbag

Host Glen Andresen and guest Jim Gilbert talk veggies and fruit. This month's plant of the month is tomatoes: varieties, types and planting tips. Plus, director Taggart Siegel returns to The Dirtbag for a short interview to talk about the national release of his film Queen of the Sun.

And, as usual, a new Garden Stumper quiz and answers to listeners' gardening questions.

Listen. Laugh. Learn.

Gene Harris & The Three Sounds

Jazz in the Afternoon

Jazz In The Afternoon will present a special on pianist Gene Harris. Music ranging from Gene's 1958 beginning with the group The Three Sounds, and throughout his 42-year career, including big band and live performances, will be featured. Joining host Bob Riddle will be local Gene Harris experts (and fans) Steve Brown and Ernie Drapela.

Homage to Weird Portland

Special Programming: Public Affairs

Wild Law: A New Paradigm for Earth's Survival

A Deeper Look

Human populations overshot the Earth's capacity to support them a while ago. Rates of consumption continue to increase while the ruling societies on Earth give us Fukushima and the BP gulf oil spill, treating the Earth as a treasure chest for private exploitation. They turn a blind eye to the devastation to all life on Earth and to our ever shrinking future.

Are we acquiescing to our own extinction?

Many say we urgently need  a new worldview. Guest Cormac Cullinan is a leading voice in the movement to forward an Earth centered worldview. Author of the just released second edition; Wild Law, he will talk about the false premises underlying the mechanistic world view and the paradigm shift we need NOW!

JazzAfrica - The Roots

World Beat Connection

Although jazz is a uniquely American musical expression, its roots lie in Africa. Without African music there would be no jazz. And coming full circle, Jazz has found its way back into modern African music.  In this Spring Drive special we bring you African Jazz alongside works from African-American artists whose music has been deeply influenced by the music's African roots. Featured artists include Hugh Masekela, Randy Weston, the African Jazz Pioneers, Horace Silver, Manu Dibango, Don Cherry, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Yusef Lateef. At noon D.J. Charlie of the World Beat Connection starts things off, followed by Andy of Timbuktunes at 2:00 pm. Four hours of the best in African Jazz."

our annual celebration of the musical king of love- STEVIE WONDER!

Guess Who's Coming to Radio??!!

good people,we've come this far... why stop now? on thursday, may the 12th from 7-10 pm; thanks to your overwhelming support, we at 'guess who's coming to radio??!!' are once again honoring the life of STEVIE WONDER, who will be 61 this year. it is you in the community who keep these celebrations going, and with your support during this spring membership drive we can continue to bring sunshine into the life of radio.

every opportunity we get we aim to honor STEVIE'S life and work. but we also aim to honor you daily, to bring you this community resource. this is our gift to you- signed, sealed, and delivered.

thank you, STEVIE. and thank YOU for being a part of this vast community.

Chris Hedges on "The World As It Is"

Talk Radio

Host Andrew Geller speaks with journalist and author Chris Hedges about his new book "The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress."

Drawing on two decades of experience as a war correspondent and based on his numerous columns for Truthdig, Chris Hedges presents The World As It Is, a panorama of the American empire at home and abroad, from the coarsening effect of America's War on Terror to the front lines in the Middle East and South Asia and the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Underlying his reportage is a constant struggle with the nature of war and its impact on human civilization. "War is always about betrayal," Hedges notes. "It is about betrayal of the young by the old, of cynics by idealists, and of soldiers and Marines by politicians. Society's institutions, including our religious institutions, which mold us into compliant citizens, are unmasked."

Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, and his War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction. Hedges is a senior fellow at the Nation Institute, a columnist for Truthdig, and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University.

Digital Divide: Interviews with James Gleick & Nicholas Carr

The Digital Divide

Rabia Yeaman airs an in-studio interview with James Gleick author of The Information, and Chaos. They discuss the implications of human communication as information in a digital age, and Dave DeAngelis interviews Nicholas Carr, blogger and author.

Bob Dylan Birthday Special

SongCircle

Lucky Wilbury's Friday the 13th Dylan Fest!

Just days away is the 70th birthday of one Robert Allen Zimmerman, a.k.a. Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham, a.k.a. Elston Gunn, a.k.a. Bob Landy, a.k.a. Boo and/or Lucky Wilbury, a.k.a. Blind Boy Grunt, a.k.a. Jack Frost, a.k.a. Alias -- and most commonly known as BOB DYLAN! And our annual-ish Dylan special is here just in time to celebrate. We'll feature seldom-heard tracks from Bob's classic period, and some choice nuggets of more recent vintage. Plus special guests a'singin' and a'talkin' Bob! Hosted by Jeff Rosenberg of The SongCircle.

Chickens! Everything you ever wanted to know...

Bread and Roses

Annual Call-In Chicken Show: It's your chance to ask local experts everything you ever wanted to know about raising backyard hens. Also: how to train your chicken! The only show in the country devoted to all things chicken--only on KBOO!

Underground Music

Special Programming: Public Affairs