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Mimi Pond

KBOO Community Radio ·

2026/01/22

Mimi Pond is an author, humorist, and award-winning cartoonist who’s written for newspapers, magazines, and television shows such as Designing Women and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. Her graphic novels include Over Easy, The Customer Is Always Wrong, and most recently Do Admi...

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Cai Emmons' posthumous novel The Bells with her...

KBOO Community Radio ·

2026/01/22

I had the great pleasure of interviewing Eugene-based writer Cai Emmons five times for KBOO, before she ended her life, through Oregon’s Death With Dignity program, in January 2023. Cai was diagnosed with bulbar onset ALS in early 2021, at the age of 70. It’s a debilitat...

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Compassion in Washington State

KBOO Community Radio ·

2026/01/22

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Compassion in Washington State.In the state of Washington, legislators are considering House Bill 2152, entitled Permitting the medical use of cannabis by qualifying patients in specified health care facilities. This bill is based o...

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Remembering Claire Hall and the Murder of Rene Good...

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2026/01/21

Join us this Tuesday, January 20th at 6 PM on KBOO Community Radio for Transpositive PDX. In the first half of the show, we’ll be joined by Marci Grace Frederic and Sheila Menghert to remember the life and legacy of Claire Hall, the transgender Lincoln County Commissione...

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Letter from a Birmingham Jail

KBOO Community Radio ·

2026/01/20

On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and nearly 50 other protestors and civil rights leaders were arrested after leading a Good Friday demonstration as part of the Birmingham Campaign, designed to bring national attention to the brutal, racist treatment suffered...

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Undammed

KBOO Community Radio ·

2026/01/19

Last year four of the dams on Klamath River were removed. The largest dam removal project in United States history, this is a remarkable test case to show how nature and people can thrive on free-flowing rivers. But there are still many dams around the United States and...

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Deportation Nation

KBOO Community Radio ·

2026/01/19

Luisa Martinez speaks with immigration lawyer and activist Daniel Kanstroom about the political economy of labor migration, the historical antecedents of current US immigration policy, the racialization of immigration enforcement, and immigration policy through the lense...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for January 19, 2026

KBOO Community Radio ·

2026/01/19

The Reverend Martin Luther King once said: "We may have all come on different ships, but now we're in the same boat." Were he alive, MLK would have been the first to condemn the state terror campaign currently inflicted on our immigrant communities. Surely he would ha...

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Yes, Superman is an Immigrant

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2026/01/19

When "Superman", the latest film adaptation of our iconic superhero, was released earlier this year, right-wing commentators maligned it for being too politicized. In response, Andrew Slack and Jose Antonio Vargas published a piece, which appeared in the Hollywood Report...

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Derf: Remembering Kent State and Jeffrey Dahmer -...

KBOO Community Radio ·

2026/01/08

With the deployment of National Guard troops once again in the news, we revisit our August 2021 conversation with graphic novelist Derf Backderf. Derf's graphic novel Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio won the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work. Inspired by the ...

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Beginnings 2026

KBOO Community Radio ·

2026/01/08

This is our first show of the new year, and I’d like to ring in 2026 doing something I started for our first show in 2025. It’s an audio retrospective of last year’s interviews on Jonesy. Which I call Beginnings, for the beginning of the new year and the fact we’re playi...

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Transgender News This Week on Transpositive PDX

KBOO Community Radio ·

2026/01/07

This Tuesday on TransPositive PDX, we take a deep dive into the most important transgender stories of the past two weeks — not just the headlines, but what they reveal about power, resistance, and the material realities of trans lives right now. From federal lawsuits and...

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In Our Future We are Free - an Interview with Nell...

KBOO Community Radio ·

2026/01/06

This Monday, January 5 at 6:30pm, Prison Pipeline on KBOO Community Radio features an in-depth interview with journalist and author Nell Bernstein, whose reporting has helped transform the national conversation about youth incarceration. Over the past twenty years, the U...

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Looking Back at a Wretched Year yet Ahead with Hope

KBOO Community Radio ·

2026/01/05

What a weird, wretched, gut-wrenching year 2025 has been. Probably even worse than many of us had feared at the end of last year. But despite worsening climate chaos and glimpses of the end of democracy, there are glimmers of hope ahead. On this episode of Locus Focus, ...

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PDX Progressive Talk Radio on 12/31/25

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2025/12/31

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Marching Off To War

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2025/12/31

On this edition of Century: Marching Off To War.The United Nations Security Council held a meeting December 23 to discuss threats to international peace and security arising from United States military actions being taken against Venezuela. We hear a briefing to the Co...

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Beaverton Education Association United Slate

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2025/12/30

The Beaverton Education Association United Slate is challenging the current BEA leadership in a February union election. Adam Oyster-Sands and Lauren McCartney discuss their struggle to bring an organizing culture, high participation, transparency, and joint community-...

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The Noxious Spread of Data Centers, Part Two

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2025/12/29

This program aired originally on November 3, 2025 The landscape of Washington County has been transformed from one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world into a maze of gargantuan data centers. On this episode of Locus Focus we continue the tale of how t...

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Wassailing in the Age of Endless War, ICE, and...

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2025/12/29

Desiree Hellegers reflects on the links between immigrant detention, mass incarceration, endless war, and death on the streets. Universal housing, they argue, is no pie in the sky dream, and would go a long way toward ending the cycle of colonial violence in the U.S. Par...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for December 29, 2025

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2025/12/29

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole which features the following segments: Crisis in Higher Ed: What’s at stake for the city of Portland if its flagship university is strangled by budget cuts? Laurie Mercier speaks with Bill Knight, Associate Profess...

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