Community Building

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Radical Romance

Airs at: Wed, 04/09/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Radical Romance
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Let's Talk! Live on Observing Sexual Assault Awareness Month on 04/04/25

Airs at: Fri, 04/04/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Let's Talk!
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Revitalizing third spaces in real time: Workers Tap invites unions and organizers into a special space for the community

Airs at: Wed, 04/02/2025 at 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  Beer, coffee and union solidarity are all on the menu at Workers Tap in Portland. Started in 2022, the bar and cafe offers a free meeting space for unions and organizers to gather, intentionally creating a third space for communities.  KBOO's Hana Francis speaks with... Read more

Four Walls For Us All

Airs at: Tue, 04/22/2025 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  As part of KBOO's Earth Day Programing we'll be joined by Erin Zipman, involved community member and recent graduate of Environmental Policy Studies. We explore the policies of safe, affordable housing, policy, and the passion to go beyond typical solutions to climate... Read more

Cow Poop Won't Solve the Climate Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 04/07/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Concentrated Animal Feed Operations have been around for a few decades. Basically concentration camps for cattle, pigs and chickens, these factory farms not only torture animals but also are major polluters and a principal emitter of greenhouse gases. But in recent years... Read more

The Board Bard Comes To KBOO

Airs at: Tue, 04/01/2025 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Winner's Bias
James and Nate welcome Liz and Curtis from Montavilla's Board Bard Games. They talk about their first year and a half of business, the challenges of opening a new game store, and fostering a warm and welcoming community. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 31, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Improving Taxation, Empowering Coalitions: This episode is hosted by Frann Michel and features these segments: Improving Taxation: Economist Mary King explains the need for taxes and the  inequities of current property taxes in Oregon,  and she proposes several ways ... Read more

The Power of Coalition

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Laurie Mercier speaks with Alisha Chavez, vice-president of the Portland Association of Teachers (PAT), about the upcoming Workers Assembly, a free, in-person meeting to be held on April 12 to bring together labor and social movements to envision and build greater com... Read more

Spider Moccasin and Mike Lastra

Airs at: Thu, 03/27/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Spider Moccasin is a musician, poet, comics artist, and animator whose multi-media event “Echoes of the Grunge Age” screens at Portland’s Clinton Street Theater on Thursday April 17th.  Spider is an enrolled Wasco / Warm Springs tribal member who has brought his poe... Read more

Gaslighting Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Northwest Natural Gas's Smart Energy program advertises itself as a way for customers to “offset” their natural gas emissions by funding projects that the company says “reduce, or prevent the release of, greenhouse gases.” But in fact, as customers found out, Smart Energ... Read more