Activism

Positively Revolting on The First 100 Days

Airs at: Fri, 01/13/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Positively Revolting

During this hour, we talk with local organizer Amy Harwood about the upcoming conference: The First 100 Days, which explores creative responses to resist the Trump regime. The conference starts this weekend, and you can find full information at this link http://first1... Read more

IF CORPORATE CEOs WOULD RESIST TRUMP. . .

Airs at: Mon, 01/16/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

In December Donald Trump met with the CEOs of several high tech companies, including Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle. After Catz was quoted before joining the Trump transition team as saying: “I plan to tell the President-elect that we are with him and are here to help in any ... Read more

Dismantling Racism

Airs at: Mon, 01/23/2017 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

Dr. Catherine Meeks is a retired professor of socio-cultural studies at Wesleyan College. She is the editor of the newly released book, Living Into God’s Dream: Dismantling Racism in America. From the publisher: This book is a report from the front, combining personal st... Read more

Edward Snowden - The Graphic Biography

Airs at: Thu, 01/12/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

In this encore episode from October 2015, political cartoonist and international troublemaker Ted Rall returns to the KBOO studios with his graphic biography of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Drawing from Ted's conversations with Snowden's own ACLU attorney as wel... Read more

Communication Management Units & Political Prisoners in the Age of Trump

Airs at: Mon, 01/16/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Adam Carpinelli will interview Daniel McGowan. Daniel is an environmental and social justice activist from Queens, NY. He was charged in 2005 with 15 counts of arson, property destruction and conspiracy, all related to two actions in Oregon in 2000, claimed by the Earth... Read more

Black MAX riders without a fare are more likely to be banned from TriMet...Plus Margaret Jacobsen of the Women's March on Washington: Portland

Airs at: Thu, 01/19/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

The District Attorneys for Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties have all announced that they will no longer criminally prosecute TriMet riders who cannot produce proof of a paid fare. They've made the move in response to a Portland State University study and ... Read more

Episode 14 - Those Who Act

Airs at: Tue, 01/10/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm

Produced for: The Staple

Voices of people taking positive action followed by an interview with activist Kathryn Stevens. Below are links to some of the organizations mentioned in the episode: Be The Millers Emergency Houseless Resource Drive Portland's Resistance Boots on the Ground Backpacks... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 9, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show about desire: the desire of Intersex people to be free of the surgical and moral control of their bodies and the desire of everyone of us to live lives of our own without the shackles of jobs designed to make rich people even richer. H... Read more

What If There Were No Money?

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

In hopes of stimulating the Left's imagination, Clayton Morgareidge imagines a scenario in which a political movement took power on the promise to abolish all forms of money. The question, How, then, would we live? requires us to imagine and create a social world based o... Read more

A World Without Money?

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Suppose there were no such thing as money: a better story for the Left The Left, it appears, has been dealt a heavy blow by the November election and the prospect of four years of Donald Trump, a Republican Congress and Supreme Court. The good news, though, is that... Read more