On Monday December 26th, at 7 pm, KBOO will present a talk given recently in Portland by former black panther Malik Rahim, who organized relief efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He talks about how New Orleans is faring six years later, and why we can’t trust the government to save us.

Former Black Panther Malik Rahim – live on KBOO. He’ll speak about occupy Wall street, environmental justice and having the courage to stand up for what you believe in.

Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast blew the lid off voter fraud in 2000 and 2004 that threw the presidential elections into doubt. Greg has picked up the money trail again, following it to a corrupt link between Big Oil and High Finance that has produced record corporate profits whilecreating environmental disasters like the recent Gulf oil spill. This new story, captured in his latest book, Vulture's Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High Finance Carnivores, reads like a pulp thriller as the Palast investigative team travels from Baku to the Arctic Circle in pursuit of this story.

The Shock Doctrine: Author Naomi Klein's explanation of capitalism's use of disasters -- and the numb shock that accompanies them -- to carry out radical "free market" revisions. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Guantanamo to the PATRIOT Act, from Katrina to the financial crisis of 2008, the post-Sept. 11 world has been one big application of the Shock Doctrine. Abe and Joe survey the wreckage.

At 6:00, hear an interview with former Black panther Malik Rahim in New Orleans, on the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.  Later this hour, KBOO’s Josh harper interviews Jamie Henn, one of the organizers of direct action opposing the tar sands pipeline which is scheduled to go from Alberta Canada all the way to the Gulf Coast. And at 6:30, we’ll hear a discussion of whether ethanol really can be an alternative energy source to replace our dependence on oil.