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A DIFFERENT NATURE salutes ORNETTE COLEMAN tonight at 8pm

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Produced for: A Different Nature

Join the A DIFFERENT NATURE Collective tonight for a kind of radio primer on Ornette Coleman, as some of us share what recordings we still have of his most pivotal and radical music from our collections and reflect on the life and turbulent times of one of modern music's mo... Read more

May Day - Twining the Green, the Black, and the Red

Airs at: Fri, 04/29/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Positively Revolting

“May Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system of exploitation, oppression, war, and overall misery, toil, and moil.” So writes celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh in an esse... Read more

Proxies by Brian Blanchfield

Airs at: Thu, 05/19/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

A go-for-broke essay collection that blends cultural close reading and dicey autobiography. Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics —Foot Washing, Dossiers, Br’er Rabbit, Housesitting... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 04/11/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick interviews Margot Black of Portland Tenants United about our city's rent crisis. Frann Michel reacts to Trump's declaration the women who have illegal abortions should be punished. Clayton Morgareidge reads and share's his thoughts on the ongoing bombing of I... Read more

Operation Homestead: liberating housing in 1990s Seattle

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Desiree Hellegers interviews Seattle housing justice activists Ginger Segel and Bob Kubiniec about their work in the 1980s and 1990s with Operation Homestead, breaking into and liberating abandoned or unused buildings for people to live in. image by Dana Schuerholz via ... Read more

News In Depth

Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 5:30pm to 6:00pm. A deeper look behind the day's top stories KBOO News In Depth is a daily in-depth interview or feature on a story of significant interest to our listening audience. These pieces focus on local, nati... Read more

Liberation Radio

Liberation Radio brings you interviews, commentary and analysis of political developments and struggles affecting workers throughout the country. Read more

Occupy Portland Radio

Retired as of April 2016 - was every 3rd Wednesday from 6:00pm to 7:00pm. KBOO has been with Occupy Portland from the very beginning. Since there is so much overlap in issues of concern and advocacy it is only natural that there should be such a strong bond. We are dedicate... Read more

Author Carla Peterson, "Black Gotham"

Airs at: Thu, 09/01/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of their friends, neighbors, and business associates, ... Read more

More Talk Radio on 11/08/10

Airs at: Mon, 11/08/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with labor organizer, writer and radical theorist John Cronan Jr. He will be speaking at Laughing Horse Books on Thursday, November 11th at 6PM with activist and student orgainzer Casey Asprooth-Jackson. John Cronan is a restaur... Read more