Government/Politics

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Rally and March for Truth on Saturday June 3

Airs at: Mon, 05/29/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for Evening News
On Saturday, June 3, a rally is scheduled in conjunction with other gatherings across the country calling for a transparent, comprehensive investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election. Called the March for Trut... Read more

Splintering World Systems

Airs at: Mon, 05/29/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
    Bill Resnick talks with the editor of Foreign Policy in Focus, blogger, writer,  and author of the novel Splinterlands, John Feffer, about his nightmare of the breakdown of the world system in the next half-century.     Read more

30 Years of ACT UP; and Art by Tarts: a sex worker art show.

Airs at: Tue, 05/30/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Preference
Solidarity: global and local; past and present. How do we organize to confront a crisis? We'll be talking with folks who have answered the call for community-and-activism on issues of sexuality, safety, health, and well-being.    In the first half of the hour, we'll be... Read more

REFINERY TOWN

Airs at: Mon, 05/29/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
This program was originally broadcast on March 20. 2017 In 2012 a massive fire ripped through the Chevron Richmond Refinery, sending a towering plume of toxic smoke into the air over Richmond, California.  For over a hundred years, Richmond was a classic company town, who... Read more

Behind the Eleventh Door

Airs at: Mon, 06/05/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
Disability Rights Oregon attorneys Bob Joondeph (Executive Director) and Joel Greenberg join host Karen James to discuss DRO’s report “Behind the Eleventh Door: One Year Later”, released in April 2017 that found the Oregon State Penitentiary fell short of its goal to imp... Read more

Matt Taibbi & Amy Goodman

Airs at: Wed, 05/24/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Political Perspectives
  Join Theresa Mitchel on the last day of KBOO's Spring Membership Drive as she welcomes Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi and Democracy Now's Amy Goodman to make a last minute pitch for new and renewing members. Read more

Brian Tokar on Municipalism

Airs at: Mon, 05/22/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick and Brian Tokar discuss Municipalism and how to combine electoral politics with grass roots movement building to support a radical political turn. Brian Tokar is an activist, author, and a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont.  H... Read more

Saudi Arabia: History & Politics...Madawi Al-Rasheed

Airs at: Tue, 05/23/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  Saudi Arabia is a quixotic ally of the U.S., to say the least. Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were from the desert kingdom. In the wake of the attack, the U.S. flew Saudi elites out of the country and then preceded to invade Afghanistan, through no Afghans wer... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for May 22, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 05/22/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this membership drive episode of the Old Mole, which includes Joe Clement on Banjo and Brian Tokar talking with Bill Resnick about municipal assemblies; Huy Ong of OPAL talking with Desiree Hellegers about Protesting Trimet Policing; Rachel Hanes ... Read more

Your Brain's Politics - Neuroscience and the political divide

Airs at: Wed, 05/24/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Recovery Zone
  The concept of framing in politics was introduced over a decade ago by George Lakoff, but cognitive scientist Elisabeth Wehling feels that frames are still misunderstood and that much of her work "still consists of explaining what political framing is at all. There ar... Read more