Winter Drive Special Programming

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We have some great specials for you -- Check them out!

We love doing these specials, but we're doing them for a reason. We're a member-supported radio station and so
a couple times a year, we come to you, the listener. We rely on your support because KBOO's ability to remain a vibrant independent source for news, music, community information, and art absolutely relies on listener support.

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Saturday, February 14, 2015

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Live in-studio Bluegrass Marathon featuring live in-studio performances by Nu-Blu, New Five Cents, Hollerbodies, Mountain Honey, Puddletown Ramblers, and String Style! Music from the True Vine  


Featured Audio from some membership drive specials that have already aired:

  Winona LaDuke: Recovering the Sacred
Winona LaDuke discusses sustainable food growing practices as well as indigenous perspectives and grassroots strategies for mitigating climate change
 
  De-gentrify Portland:
Fighting back against the economic and racial forces of displacement
 
  Jorge Reyes Special

La Ruleta
 
  American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity with Christian Appy

Political Perspectives
 
 

Edward E. Baptist: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

 
 

KBOO Artists in Residence present their work. Tessie Word talks about her sound piece "Convergence", followed by an interview and live performance with Marisa Anderson

 
 

An interview with Eric McDavid, victim of FBI entrapment

 
  Chris Hedges: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt  
  Ellen Morris Bishop on her new book Living With Thunder: Exploring the Geologic Past, Present, and Future of the Pacific Northwest

Radiozine
 
  Scott McCloud on his new graphic novel The Sculptor

Words and Pictures
 
 

 

 
  Cornel West on Love and Justice

Alternative Radio
 
 

"Love. Sex. Therapy." Dmae talks with the cast (Alia Attallah, Dominic Rains, Quinn Franzen) of Threesome by Yussef El Guindi at Portland Center Stage.

Stage and Studio

 
  Nourishing Broth: An Old Fashioned Remedy for a Modern World with Sally Fallon Morell

Healthwatch
 
  School Bus Driver and Union President Fights for Fifteen, Sick Leave and Health Care for All

Labor Radio
 
  Freeing Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera

Prison Pipeline
 
  Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics
(Unpublished)


Movie Talk
 
  Of Ice and Men: A Conversation with McKenzie Funk on Shell Oil's disastrous efforts to drill for oil off the coast of northern Alaska

Locus Focus
 
  Live in Studio: Oregon Oldtime Fiddlers celebrate Their 50th anniversary.

Swing 'n' Country
   
  GirlStrength and Under Our Skin; Celebrating the power of our bodies, and the strength of our words.

Bread and Roses
 
  935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral Integrity" with Charles Lewis

Radiozine
 
 

A forum on police unions and their role in the culture of police violence in the United States
An in-depth look at the history, role and political influence of police unions.

   
  Greg Palast on Greece, Voter Purges and Money in Politics

Voices from the Edge
 
 
  Loretta Napoleoni on her book The Islamist Phoenix

Fight the Empire
 
 
 

Sarah Van Gelder on "Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference"

Between the Covers

 
 

The Portland Y.O.U.T.H Summit
Inspiring Youth To Bring Change For The Greater Good

Ear to the Streets of Portland