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KBOO News Interview - Christiaan Bedford and Jennifer Cook

Airs at: Mon, 03/06/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for Evening News
Donald Trump supporters took to the streets last Saturday in a series of what they were calling "March 4 Trump" rallies across the country. There were only three events in Oregon, the largest in Lake Oswego, where an estimated 200 Trump supporters found themselves outnumber... Read more

Pacific Underground: International Women's Day Special

Airs at: Wed, 03/08/2017 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Produced for Pacific Underground
What does it mean to be an Asian woman in America in 2017? In this special Interntional Women's Day episode, the women of Pacific Underground explore what the Asian American experience for women in a time when gender expression, identity, and sex are being defined more flui... Read more

Renters' Rights Comics

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  In this encore episode from March 2015, we learn about renters' rights with the help of cartoonist Becky Hawkins and the late Justin Buri, onetime Executive Director of Portland's Community Alliance of Tenants. When local educational group Know Your City needed a medium ... Read more

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Gender Equity

Airs at: Tue, 03/07/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  Currently the Supreme Court hangs in the balance with a 4-4 liberal conservative split. The former tends to view the Constitution as a living document, while the latter sees it as something static and fixed document. Court decisions have huge impacts on society. One cont... Read more

Transfeminism, TERF and Title IX on Transpositive PDX

Airs at: Tue, 03/07/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Transpositive PDX
Join us for an illuminating discussion this week on Transpositive PDX.  In honor of Women's Day we will be discussing transfeminism and why trans exclusionary radical feminism is damaging to trans women and women generally.  We will also be discussing the #notmypresident's ... Read more

Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence

Airs at: Mon, 03/06/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Madness Radio
  Is meditation simply about relaxation and learning to gain control over strong emotion or can it be a pathway to change? Is there a dark side to meditation? How can meditation and mindfulness contribute to the struggle against social injustice? Nirali Shah is a certifie... Read more

A (fuller) conversation with Dr. Jared A. Ball, and the music of Al Jarreau

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Jared A. Ball has been on the airwaves of KBOO several times; in interviews related to news programming, on airings of Hard Knock Radio, and even on 'guess who's coming to radio??!!' (in a segment on A Tribe called Quest and Phife Dawg). However, we had been wanting to do a... Read more

Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Airs at: Sun, 03/05/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
This week we speak with Tyler Williams from Students for Sensible Drug Policy about drug policy reform, activism, and SSDP's upcoming international conference in Portland, Oregon March 24-26. Students for Sensible Drug Policy   Read more

Portland Resistance Calendar

Thanks for your support. I'm unable to come back to this work, and I hope that someone else is or will be able to take this on. (And if you hear of someone who has, let me know & I'll update this page) - vj In the meantime, you may want to check: pdxactivist.org (where y... Read more

45 Days of Madness (and Counting)

Airs at: Mon, 03/06/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
It's been a rocky and rolling six weeks since we talked with George Polisner, a former senior executive at Oracle who very publicly resigned from the company after its CEO enthusiastically joined the Trump transition team in January. Since quitting Oracle George has devoted... Read more