Special Programming: Public Affairs

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Here we feature episodes that feature incisive interviews, speeches, thoughts, opinion and convergences.

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Jim Hightower interview: "Jim Hightower interview"

Airs at: Sun, 06/01/2008 at 5:00pm
Jim Hightower interview What's happened to the family farm? Bankruptcies, broken hearts, families and homes destroyed, and suicides to name a few. This interview was facilitated by KBOO's Marliese Franklin, in an interview with radio personality Jim Hightower:   Read more

Ol Mole Interview - George Ritzer on the McDonalization of Society

Airs at: Sun, 06/01/2008 at 5:00pm
Since 1955 McDonald's has grown to over 31,000 outlets worldwide (2003).The central concepts employed in the fast-food industry have spread to all types of restaurants. Everything from pizza to lobster, from ice cream to bread, from alcohol to fried chicken and even the funer... Read more

Andrew Geller Interviews Anuradha Mittal of the Oakland Institute.

Airs at: Sun, 06/01/2008 at 5:00pm
Anuradha Mittal Is also the former Co Director, Food First; Contributor, "The Status of International Food Aid Negotiations: An Update to Food Aid or Food Sovereignty?  Ending World Hunger In Our Time"  (April2008); economic globalization, loss of American farms, effects of... Read more

Interview: Andy Worthington author of The Guantanamo Files; The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison

Airs at: Thu, 05/29/2008 at 5:00pm
Kboo's Linda Olson-Osterlund interviews Andy Worthington. A frequent contributor to The Huffington Post, he is the author of the book The Guantanamo Files; The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison. The book is a comphrehensive examination of each and eve... Read more

Interview: Steve Wax, author of Kafka Comes to America; Fighting For Justice In The War on Terror

Airs at: Thu, 05/29/2008 at 5:00pm
   Kboo's Linda Olson-Osterlund interviews Steve Wax Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon and author of the new book, Kafka Comes to America; Fighting For Justice In The War On Terror. This is the inside account of the fight to defend two innocent men wrongly ... Read more

OPAL Students and the Voice For Empowerment Project, Full Version

Airs at: Tue, 05/27/2008 at 5:00pm
Students at De La Salle recently participated in a four week workshop series as part of OPAL’s Voice For Empowerment Project. OPAL (Organizing People-Activating Leaders)  is a community organization formed in September 2005 that works for Environmental Justice in the Portlan... Read more

Emi Maclean, Attorney for the CCR: Full interview about Guantanamo Refugees

Airs at: Sun, 05/11/2008 at 5:00pm
 The full interview with Emi Maclean by Kboo Reporter Linda Olson-Osterlund. Ms Maclean attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights talks in depth about her testimony before congress on behalf of refugees held in solitary confinement and the Guantanamo Bay prison camp... Read more

Debate of Secretary of State candidates

Airs at: Thu, 05/01/2008 at 5:00pm
The debate of the 3 leading democratic candidates for Oregon Secretary of State. Read more

Interview with Author Susan F. Hirsch

Airs at: Fri, 04/04/2008 at 5:00pm
Reporter Linda Olson-Osterlund interviews Susan F. Hirsch Author of In the Moment of Greatest Calamity; Terrorism, Grief, and a Victim's Quest for Justice. The Author who was herself a victim of the 1998  bombing of American Embassy in Tanzania and whose husband was killed ... Read more

The Angola 3 - Robert King Interview

Airs at: Thu, 04/03/2008 at 5:00pm
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