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Peace in Schools: bringing mindfulness to teens

Airs at: Mon, 07/03/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Healthwatch
  In 2014, the  American Psychological Association deemed teens, during the school year, the most stressed group of people in the United States. Teens experience stress much the way adults do, but do not yet have the skills and mechanisms to effectively work with it. To ad... Read more

On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital

Airs at: Fri, 06/30/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Radiozine
  This packed show is all about resisting the normalization of war abroad and at home, resisting the idea that militarism, police terror and hate crimes will accepted as part of a new hyper reality. We hear voices from among the hundreds that gathered in DC for a vigil for... Read more

Pedalpalooza Month

Airs at: Tue, 06/13/2017 at 5:00pm
Produced for Evening News
  June is Pedalpalooza month. This coming Sunday will see the “Become the Media Outreach Ride” organized by a KBOO volunteer who hopes to connect volunteers from various non-commercial media outlets here in Portland. KBOO reporter Jenna Yokoyama talked with organizer Sean... Read more

The Historic Black Williams Project

Airs at: Tue, 06/27/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Art Focus
  KBOO's Eric Bartels speaks to Kayin Talton Davis...the project manager of The Black Williams Project. N Williams/Albina was Portland’s largest African American community. The goal of the Black Williams Project is to highlight this history, through a multimedia public ar... Read more

CRCI Reading Group Interviews Ibram X. Kendi

Airs at: Mon, 07/10/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
On June 21st, the Liberation Literacy reading group at Columbia River Correctional Institution (CRCI) interviewed National Book Award winner and historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi about his book Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Liber... Read more

Climate Change & the Media

Airs at: Tue, 06/27/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  Robert Hackett, a leading critic and media theorist, is professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, SFU in Burnaby, BC. He has published widely on media issues. He is co-author of Journalism and Climate Crisis. Climate change poses a long-term t... Read more

MOSIER OIL TRAIN DERAILMENT ANNIVERSARY

Airs at: Mon, 07/03/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
On June 3 of last year, an oil train derailed in the Columbia River Gorge in the little town of Mosier. Several cars caught fire and burned for 14 hours. If the normal Gorge winds had been blowing that day, Mosier would been destroyed, like Lac-Megantic. On the first anniv... Read more

#SupportDontPunish

Airs at: Sun, 06/25/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
This week we remember a good friend, the drug policy reformer and marijuana activist Mickey Martin, and present an interview with him from 2013. Plus, June 26th is the Global Day of Action for Drug Policy Reform, so we speak with Fergal Eccles of Students for Sensible Drug ... Read more

June 23, 2017 Resistance Calendar

Airs at: Fri, 06/23/2017 at 5:00pm - Fri, 06/30/2017 at 5:00pm
  Updated Sunday 6/25. Many new events added. The highlights of the highlights. Good in the Hood. All weekend long. Especially the parade. Because who doesn't love a parade? Community dialogue on displacement : Rising Waters.  Zines for the End Times Screening : Fame t... Read more

Food Workers Resist: Storytelling About Race, Food and Identity

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcome Will Fain of Handsome Pizza and Douglas Tsoi of PUGS, organizers of the upcoming Food Workers Resist: Storytelling about Race, Food & Identity... Is food a political and moral topic? Who gets to eat what, who makes it, and how it's delivered ar... Read more