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MacLaren Students Honored

Airs at: Mon, 06/27/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Join host Carlos Chavez to celebrate seven students from MacLaren Youth Corrections who are raising the bar for those serving time at Oregon Youth Authority through the Janus Youth / Hope Partnership Program. We honor their work as leaders within youth detention and reco... Read more

How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball

Airs at: Thu, 08/18/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  How to Set a Fire and Why, Jesse Ball’s singular, blistering new novel, tells the story of a teenage girl who has lost everything—and will burn anything.  Lucia’s father is dead, her mother is in a mental hospital, and she’s living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her ... Read more

Bread and Roses

Airs at: Fri, 06/24/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Sue Perlgut was a co-founder and collective member of the 1970-1976 feminist theater collective It's All Right to Be Woman Theatre. She continues as a theater artist and is a documentary filmmaker. Sue is currently working on a multi-media performance, Women's Wisdom Pla... Read more

Episode 002: Human Trafficking Sergeant Discusses Domestic Sex Trafficking

Airs at: Tue, 09/08/2015 at 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Produced for:  Justice Hope Freedom
Molly McDade-Hood, Multnomah County, Human Trafficking Sergeant discusses the issue and sex trafficking and domestic sex trafficking.  She talks about pimps, victims, buyers and more. Click here to listen to Episode 002! Read more

Our Toxic Air: We can do better!

Airs at: Wed, 06/22/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
  Breathing the air in Portland has been compared to drinking the water in Flint, Michigan, and Multnomah air has been ranked 58 out of 3,200 counties nationwide for the dubious distinction of causing cancer. A growing movement of concerned community members is demandin... Read more

Oregon Action Coalition and the Future of Nursing

Airs at: Fri, 06/17/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
  Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher speaks with Jana Bitton, the executive director of the Oregon Center for Nursing, and co-lead of the Oregon Action Coalition. She also speaks with Christopher Wallace, the current president of the Oregon Student Nurses Association, whi... Read more

Bread and Roses

Airs at: Fri, 06/17/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Bomb Ass Pussy joins the Bread and Roses conversation; they are transplants from Los Angeles, transplants from drag, transplants from another planet of fierce queer creatures- the trioBomb Ass Pussy tells stories of queer identity and celebration through hip hop. Their m... Read more

Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise

Airs at: Sun, 06/12/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Krista Tippett is the host of NPR’s On Being. It is a show that asks, “What does it mean to be human and how do we want to live?” She was trained as a journalist and reported from divided Berlin. She received a Masters of Divinity Degree from Yale in 1994 and turned her ... Read more

Interview with Nili Yosha of Outside The Frame

Airs at: Tue, 06/07/2016 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO's Theo Burke interviewed Nili Yosha of Outside the Frame about their film screening fundraiser and event Tuesday June 7th at Revolution Hall Read more

350pdx.org LIVE on KBOO Evening News

Airs at: Wed, 06/08/2016 at 6:15pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Grassroots organizers met last night to discuss how to address the transport of crude through the Pacific Northwest. Their meeting comes as a reaction to last Friday's oil train derailment along the Columbia River Gorge. Nick Caleb and Adrianna Voss-Andreae of 350pdx.org... Read more