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Power Grid Shut Down in US colony Puerto Rico; Rights violation for those fleeing violence and poverty

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  Today on the Show: A major storm shuts down the electricity grid in Puerto Rico. Vulture capitalists and a corporate Junta are largly to blame for the repeated failure of the power grid. We’ll feature a special report from the storm-torn US colony. Also, are two border g... Read more

David Korten - "Our Planetary Existential Crisis"

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Our planet and humankind are in danger. The warnings coming from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres could not be more unambiguous. He says we are heading towards an unlivable world. We are on a fast track to climate disaster. Major cities under water. Unprecedented he... Read more

Charles Seife on fusion power; Neal Shubin on his human evolution theory

Airs at: Wed, 09/14/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  Guests: Dr. Charles Seife talks about the prospects for fusion energy; and Dr. Neil Shubin on our evolution from the fishes   Host: Dr. Michio Kaku, popular physicist, scientist and speaker, professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Gradu... Read more

The Way to Food Forest Abundance with Jim Gale

Airs at: Wed, 09/14/2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  EcoJustice Radio
  Many people are aware of the Victory Gardens that were hallmarks of WWI and WWII, where people in the United States and in other countries were growing food at home to supplement rations, reduce pressure on the food supply and lift morale. We are in a similar, yet diffe... Read more

The Latest on The Battle to Free Julian Assange

Airs at: Wed, 09/14/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  Did Sonoma County sheriffs jump the gun in the recent killing of farmworker, David Pelaez-Chavez?  Also, Filipino activists planning to protest the invitation of President Marcos of the Philippines to the UN. Later we continue the fight to free Wikileaks publisher, Juli... Read more

Better (too) late than never?

Airs at: Wed, 09/14/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Over the past several decades, numerous target dates or time frames have been put forward as the point where we MUST start reducing or already have reduced fossil fuel emissions by X amount or face irreversible, possibly cataclysmic consequences. "By the year 2000, by 20... Read more

Hitting Harder & Faster

Airs at: Tue, 09/13/2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Radio Ecoshock
  As the climate unravels before our eyes, this show is packed with lead authors & new revelations. Syee Waldeab: in a climate not much warmer than today and ice sheets melting, long-frozen methane on the sea floor was released. Then Michelle Dvoraks team finds Earth will ... Read more

More Talk Radio returns to KBOO

Airs at: Mon, 09/12/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  With hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey. -- Cecil and Celeste welcome your calls. This program is open to local, national and international issues ranging from poverty in Portland to politics in Africa.        Read more

Lina Abu Akleh's Remarks (accepting an award honoring Shireen Abu Akleh); Diana Buttu on the Oslo Accord

Airs at: Fri, 09/09/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Arab Voices
  1st Segment: Lina Abu Akleh's Remarks (accepting an award honoring Shireen Abu Akleh) On August 31, 2022, The National Press Club in Washington, D.C., held its annual Journalism Awards Dinner and presented Shireen Abu Aklehs niece, Lina Abu Akleh with the 2022 National ... Read more

Climate Rebellion & Deep Adaptation

Airs at: Fri, 09/09/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Radio Ecoshock
  Should we tell young people what we've done to the climate? Too late: they are telling us. The student rebel who started it all: Greta Thunberg, interviewed by the late Stuart Scott from scientistswarning.org. Then Dr. Jem Bendell, a well-known Sustainability Professor f... Read more