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Organizer Secrets & Socialist Job Fair

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Two exciting labor events coming up on Oct. 27 & Nov. 7 are a "Secrets of a Successful Organizer" training, featuring Mark Brenner, co-author of the book by the same name and past director of Labor Notes (on Oct. 27) & a Socialist Job Fair sponsored by Portland DSA (Democra... Read more

Election Forum Focused on Marginalized Communities at Sentinel Hotel

Airs at: Wed, 10/17/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
        The Coalition of Communities of Color held an election forum today at the Sentinel Hotel. KBOO’s Sam Bouman was there and has this report. Read more

Oregon Housing Conference on Supportive Housing

Airs at: Mon, 10/15/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    The Mental Health Association of Portland hosted the Oregon Housing Conference on Supportive Housing in Portland today. ‘Supportive housing’ is housing for people with mental illness or addiction, usually including on-site clinicians and case workers. KBOO’s Joe Meye... Read more

Pushing Back the Corporate Food Regime: Eric Holt-Giménez

Airs at: Tue, 10/16/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Food is the basis of life. We need it to live. It is as simple as that. The UN declares, “the right to adequate food is a long-standing international human right.” But the aim of 21st century capitalism is not primarily to promote our well-being and health, it is to cont... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for October 15th, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 10/15/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    Densie Morris Hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes these segments:  Bill Resnick speaks with Patricia Kullberg MD MPH about how premature disease, disability and death affects people of color, low income and immigrant communities in Portland, how the ... Read more

On the Ground with Mutual Aid Disaster Relief in North Carolina

Airs at: Wed, 10/10/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  RESIDENTS STILL DEALING WITH AFTERMATH OF FLORENCE AS MICHAEL APPROACHES   Even as Hurricane Michael promises to inundate the eastern seaboard, residents in parts of North Carolina continue to struggle with the aftermath of Hurricane Florence last month. KBOO reporter ... Read more

Eros v Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 10/08/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge discusses the way life in capitalist society limits our ability to take erotic pleasure in life and how a life of freedom from wage labor could make all life, including work, pleasurable.  You can read an expanded version of this commentary here.  Read more

Chris Hedges: Rise Up & Resist

Airs at: Tue, 10/09/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  When is enough enough? In the face of evil what does it take for people to move from passivity to active resistance? Throughout history there have been instances of people defying tyranny. Fighting back no matter what the odds. An example comes from Nazi Germany, often c... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for October 8, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 10/08/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts, and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Amy Cantrell, a North Carolina minister who has been organizing to help victims of Hurricane Florence. Thomas Hanna of the Democracy Collaborative talks with the Old Mole’s Laurie Mercier about the ret... Read more

Corporate Accountability & the Portland Clean Energy Initiative

Airs at: Thu, 10/04/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Amory and Cary return to host Native Voices from the Edge on KBOO.  This week they welcome Khanh Pham from APANO & Candice Jimenez from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs to talk about the role of corporations in the Portland Clean Energy Initiative. Khanh Pham is ... Read more