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Can China Save Civilization?

Airs at: Mon, 07/10/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks with Richard Smith about the future and China's role in shaping it, specifically the environmental impact of China's explosive economic growth and the government's productivist policies. The problem is not just with China though. Richard argues for a r... Read more

Matthew Fox: A Creation Spirituality Journey

Airs at: Mon, 07/10/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
This is an encore podcast of my conversation with Matthew Fox that I previously released in November 2016. Matthew Fox. Silenced by the Vatican for his views, left the Catholic priesthood in the early 1980s. Matthew Fox is a theologian and activist who has written over 30 ... Read more

Activist Group Uses Virtual Reality Cameras to Document Animal Abuse

Airs at: Thu, 07/06/2017 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Today, the animal rights activist group Direct Action Everywhere, or DxE, released a new type of footage from inside an industrial pig farm. Activists infiltrated Circle Four Farms in Milford, Utah, one of the country’s largest pig production facilities. They used newly dev... Read more

Stopping Fascism: Chris Hedges

Airs at: Tue, 07/04/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Recorded at the Aladdin Theater, Chris Hedges visited Portland and spoke as a guest of KBOO community radio. Chris Hedges is an award-winning journalist who has covered wars in the Balkans, the Middle East and Central America. He writes a weekly column for Truthdig.org ... Read more

DI Squared: Dream It, Do It

DI Squared is a program about entrepreneurs of color in the Portland area.  Each week we feature an entrepreneur who tells the story about getting started.  We also present a resource organization that provides services to businesses in getting started.  And we raise---and ... Read more

DI Squared: Episode 2, A Moving Story

Airs at: Thu, 06/08/2017 at 3:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
We now go to KBOO news volunteer Tom Flynn, with his weekly segment D-I Squared—Dream It, Do It.  In this episode we tell the story of Portland Movers, a company formed by a man who came to Portland from Africa.  It's a company owned by a husband and wife team. Read more

Vancouver Energy Terminal Hearing

Airs at: Thu, 06/08/2017 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Yesterday evening Washington’s Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, or “EF-SEC,” closed its final hearing on the proposal to construct a 360,000 barrel-per-day crude oil trans-shipment terminal at the Port of Vancouver, Washington. Now the final decision is in the hand... Read more

The No-cause Eviction act stalls in the Senate

Airs at: Fri, 06/09/2017 at 2:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO speaks with Margot Black of the Portland Tenants United about the House bill 2004, the no-cause eviction act.  After successfully passing in the Oregon house just earlier this year, the bill is struggling in passing in the senate.  Read more

Groups Call Out Against New DOJ Budget

Airs at: Mon, 06/12/2017 at 2:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
President and CEO Vanita Gupta of The Leadership Conference on Leadership and Human Rights is on the phone with civil rights and criminal justice reform experts who are sounding the alarm on the Trump Administration's DOJ budget request that is perpetuating the mass crimina... Read more

DI Squared: Episode 4, Dirty Bastard

Airs at: Tue, 06/20/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
Episode 4 of DI Squared, an interview with the founder of 'Dirty Bastard', a company that sells men's shaving products. This is a program in which we put the word "Entrepreneur" under a microscope, and find out what it is that spells success for someone that starts a busin... Read more