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Indigenous Vision for the New Millennium: Winona LaDuke

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  In her 1998 Mario Savio Free Speech lecture, "Indigenous Vision for the New Millennium," LaDuke explores the conflict between indigenous people who live on the land and urbanized industrial society - that is, cyclical versus linear ideas of the world, and their result... Read more

#NotYourMascot

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Voices From The Edge presents Jacqueline Keeler's Not Your Disappearing Indian...a new podcast about all the ways Native people are not going away and how America's got us all wrong.  On this episode you'll hear the sounds from a protest of the NFL during a game betwe... Read more

JFK Assassination & the Gangster State: Michael Parenti

Airs at: Tue, 11/21/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The murder of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 is the most discussed, scrutinized and written about assassination in history. The official narrative is that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in Dallas and that there was "no evidence of any conspiracy, domest... Read more

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcome literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr to KBOO.  Gates currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American ... Read more

This Is Your Brain On Drugs

Airs at: Fri, 11/17/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Prison Breakdown
This meaty episode digs into the modern escalation of the War on Drugs through a rhetorical analysis of the 1989 National Drug Control Strategy, a review of the concrete policing and sentencing policies which lead to the exponential rise in prison populations, and a grou... Read more

Is Mickey Mouse a Minstrel?

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil & Celeste are joined by Kirby McCurtis to discuss the images our children consume in pop culture and where those images come from.  What are the modern alternatives to these established and harmful depictions?  The diversity gap in children's publishing is overw... Read more

The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Intersections Radio
  Sarika Mehta talks to author Alia Malek about her memoir The Home That Was Our Country...about Syria's history and contemporary politics through stories of her own family from the NYT: "Alia Malek’s memoir, “The Home That Was Our Country,” is one of the finest examp... Read more

The Broken Country

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  The Broken Country is a book-length essay on cultural trauma and the inter-generational legacies of war. In 2012, a young Vietnamese man named Kiet Thanh Ly walked into a downtown Salt Lake City megastore, purchased a knife, and began stabbing white male passersby in ... Read more

Happy Women in Apprenticeship Day!

Airs at: Thu, 11/16/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This week is National Apprenticeship Week, established by President Obama in 2015. Today, November 16, is Women in Apprenticeship Day in Oregon as declared by Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler. In Portland, one of the primary organizations working ... Read more

Book Review: "Manhattan Beach"

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Larry Bowlden reviews a new work by Jennifer Egan, who is usually edgy and anything but a traditional novelist. But her new book is a very straight-forward and well researched historical novel, Manhattan Beach. Starting in the ‘30s and taking the reader to the ‘60s of th... Read more