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Policy Making with Rep. Tawna Sanchez

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/02/25

Host Karen James speaks with Oregon Representative Tawna Sanchez, Democrat, from District 43 serving North and Northeast Portland. She has worked her lifetime for the rights of Native American people especially women. We’ll discuss not only her work in the legislature but a...

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Remembering Nikki Giovanni, Part 2

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/02/06

But, we realized there was so much more to share, so we're returning with more poems, comments and hopefully insights from you, our listeners . If you'd like to share a favorite Nikki Giovanni poem or memory, call in on 503-231-8187. By speaking her words, we lift and pre...

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Gaming In Hood River With Bert Hui

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/02/04

James and Nate Talk with Bert Hui, one of the founders of Columbia Gorge Board Games, a group that meets weekly to play board games in Hood River. We talk about running a board game meetup group, demo-ing games at conventions, and judging TCG tournaments.

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The Prisoner's Manifesto

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/02/04

Join us for an insightful conversation with Nicholas Ely, author of The Prisoner’s Manifesto. This powerful book shares the vision of More Than An Inmate (MTAI)—a group dedicated to prison reform and rehabilitation through education. 📖 The Prisoner’s Manifesto amplifies th...

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Shining a Light on Portland's Dirty Secrets about...

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/02/03

For several years the city of Portland has been very opaque in its dealings with Zenith Energy. Two years ago, in a backroom deal, the city gave Zenith the green light to continue to expand its rail shipments of fossil fuels, under the guise that the company would switch to...

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Indigenous Voices in Poetry

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/02/03

Nimiipuu Mole, creative writer, and Director of Native American Programs at Washington State University Vancouver, Julian Ankney reads poems by Natalie Diaz, Mojave, and more.

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Old Mole Variety Hour for February 3, 2025

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/02/03

Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Defending the Resistors: On January 23, 2025, Salem Younes, a first-generation Palestinian-American college student, and K Anton, a Lebanese-American human rights activist, were found ...

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Defending the Resistors

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/02/03

On January 23, 2025, Salem Younes, a first-generation Palestinian-American college student, and K Anton, a Lebanese-American human rights activist, were found not guilty by a unanimous trial jury in Lane County Circuit Court in Eugene, Oregon. The two activists faced charge...

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"Learning to Breathe Through the Apocalypse"

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/02/03

Laurie Mercier interviews Desiree Hellegers about her web series, a surreal and hallucinogenic monologue set entirely inside their mind during a thirty-day silent Buddhist retreat in the woods of British Columbia during the 2005 winter holiday. While outwardly appearing to...

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Christopher Marley's Exquisite Creatures Revealed

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/01/28

On Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Christopher Marley, who will discuss his show Exquisite Creatures Revealed, at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry until Feb 17, 2025. Marley talks about arranging insects, sea creatur...

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Comics Take on the News

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/01/28

Tune in tonight to see what these Portland Comics have to say about the current state of affairs, and all things unrelated. Tonight's panelist included Sam Whiteley, Umi Om, and Cimberly Nickell (Comics Take co-producer and regular board op) will be joining us at the table....

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School Suspensions Fail Kids

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/01/28

On this edition of Prison Pipeline: School Suspensions Fail Kids. School suspensions have risen in many parts of the country in recent years. This trend threatens long-running efforts to reform school discipline and to develop restorative justice strategies centered on chil...

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Providence Caregivers on Strike

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/01/28

Striking nurses and doctors at Providence St. Vincent's, Providence Portland, and Providence Seaside Hospitals talk about working conditions, worker solidarity and community connections on the picket line, on day one, two and three of the open-ended strike involving over 5,...

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Chasing Chimeras: The Lure of Deceptive Climate...

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/01/27

As we confront the existential crisis of climate chaos there are two paths we can take. We can make dramatic changes that meaningfully reduce carbon emissions. Or we can accept the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving climate solutions—renewable diesel, hydrogen, renewable n...

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Notes Toward a Nuclear-Free Future

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/01/27

Gil Scott-Heron, Karen Silkwood, and the 1979 No Nukes Album: For those who came of age in the 1970s and 80s, political awakening to the dangers of nuclear power came as much via pop culture as it did from watching the nightly news. The 1979 triple album No Nukes: The MU...

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Barbara Ford on Activism and Art

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/01/27

We hear excerpts from an interview Desiree Hellegers conducted with the Portland activist, writer, artist Barbara Ford in 2017 about her history of activism as part of the Thin Green Line is People History Project, a digital archive of Pacific Northwest fossil fuel resis...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for January 27, 2025

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/01/27

Frann Michel hosts this episode, with these segments: Big Tech and Big War: Laurie Mercier speaks to Roberto J. González, a professor of anthropology at San José State University, about how Silicon Valley is transforming the Military-Industrial Complex. Some of Gonzalez’s ...

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Big Tech and Big War

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/01/27

Laurie Mercier speaks to Roberto J. González, a professor of anthropology at San José State University, about how Silicon Valley is transforming the Military-Industrial Complex. Some of Gonzalez’s recent books include American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Hum...

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Bat World Sancturary

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/01/24

Are you curious about bats? You've come to the right place! Amanda Lollar, Founder and President of Bat World Sanctuary, shares with "That Vegan Show" the importance, intelligence, and unique abilities of bats from her vast experience of rescuing and caring for bats. Bat Wo...

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Interview with Marisa Richmond

KBOO Community Radio ·

2025/01/22

Please join us for Transpositive on KBOO Community Radio on Tuesday, January 21st as we talk with Marisa Richmond, a transgender icon and activist who has been working tirelessly for three decades to fight for transgender rights in Tennessee and nationally. This week begin...

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