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Is Dam Removal or Restoration Better:Saving Jobs, Salmon and the Klamath River

Airs at: Tue, 01/15/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
      A plan for the removal of four dams on the klamath River was announced on Tuesday.  This plan follows two years of closed-door negotiations between farmers, Indian tribes, fishermen, conservation groups and government agencies battling over scarce water and fish pro... Read more

Steelworkers protest hazardous imports

Airs at: Wed, 01/16/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
 On Wednesday, January 16, the local branch of the steelworkers union led a coalition of groups that marched on  Senator Gordon Smith’s Portland office. The protestors called on the Senator to take action on the problem of imports that are hazardous to our health.    Read more

Peak Oil, Debt and the Economy

Airs at: Tue, 01/15/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Per Fagereng hosts talk radio this morning with special guest, Kurt Liebezeit, a local Peak Oil Activist. Listen to Per and Kurt discus Peak Oil and the Economy, while fielding questions, opinions, and discussions with our listening audience. Read more

Civil Liberties Watch: Removal of Detainee Right to Appeal & Military Commissions Act 2006

Airs at: Sun, 01/13/2008 at 4:00pm
Next on Civil Liberties Watch Kboo’ reporter Linda Olson-Osterlund Discusses the Military Commissions Act of 2006 with the director of the ACLU of Oregon David Fidanque..  Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 14, 2007

Airs at: Sun, 01/13/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 This  is the Old Mole Variety Hour in its entirety.   Hosted by Laurie Mercier, this program focuses on some  popular movements the mainstream media  fail to cover.  First, Phil Alden Robinson from the Writers Guild talks with Bill Resnick about the writers's strike and ho... Read more

Civil Resistance in Iraq

Airs at: Sun, 01/13/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Press coverage of Iraq tells us that  the US is trying to build a secular democracy there, when in fact democratic and  secular groups are most under attack by the US and its Suni and Shia allies.  Bill Weinberg, award-winning journalist, radioactivist, and producer at  Pa... Read more

Racial Disparity in the Oregon Prison System

Airs at: Wed, 01/09/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Xicanismo
Host Carlos Chavez explores the topics of racial justice and racial disparity in the Oregon Prison System with Caylor Rolin of the Portland-based Partnership for Safety and Justice, a group seeking to unite people convicted of crime, survivors of crime, and the families of ... Read more

Iran reveals false US video of clash in Gulf of Hormuz

Airs at: Tue, 01/08/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
 The Iranian Government has accused the United States government of  fabricating video  it released of a clash between the two powers in the Gulf of Hormuz. KBOO reporter Chris Andrea has a report.  Read more

Mandatory declassification opens book on Vietnam War

Airs at: Tue, 01/08/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
 Mandatory declassification of a National Security Agency report reveals that United States officials lied during the Vietnam War to get the American people to go along with an escalation of the war.Kboo reporter Martha Odom has the story. Read more

Stigmata Glory Hole: Second Life of Jesus Part 2:

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Ubu Hour
STIGMATA GLORY HOLE, the second part of the Ubu Hour's surreal black comedy Second Life of Jesus the Avenger Trilogy.  In this episode Jesus is pursued by vicious Bleak Water contractors while trying to sabotage a Republican presidential candidate debate and hilarity ensues... Read more