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10/25 Amy Goodman, "The Silenced Majority Tour"

KBOO presents The Silenced Majority Tour A Lecture by Amy Goodman with an introduction by Denis Moynihan When: Thursday, October 25th VIP reception 6-7pm Talk & book signing ... Read more

Joe Sacco

Listen to the interview here. Joe Sacco will be our guest on January 12th! He has a new book out - an investigation of a forgotten crime in the most tormented of places, FOOTNOTES IN GAZA (Metropolitan Books/December 22, 2009), the highly anticipated new work, recounts fi... Read more

PressWatch: foreclosure fightback

I'm finding more data on how people are fighting to retain their rights to housing....currently I'm also looking into how to fight bottom-feeders who sue after buying old credit card debts. It's your duty to the society to fight the super-rich and their pauperization sc... Read more

The BOO sent me to the Untied States Social Justice Forum, and I got an amazing tee shirt!

Thank you KBOO board members for having the fore sight to send someone (lucky me) to the USSJFSJ. From the momont I stepped into Adam Carparelli's car until three days later when I wave goodbye to Michael (Strike Debt Willson's house, he so generously gave to the for o... Read more

queer morality

The Well-Read Red on the Old Mole Variety HourLast month, General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, defended the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gay service members by saying that "I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immora... Read more

Eva Golinger Lecture

KBOO is a proud co-sponsor for a lecture by Eva Golinger hosted by the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee When: May 6th, 2011 7:00 PM through 10:00 PM Location: First Unitarian Church at 1011 Southwest 13th, Portland OR 97201 Contact: megan@pcasc.net Wikileaks... Read more

Programming Volunteer Spotlight: DON MERRILL

Don Merrill is a relatively new volunteer here at KBOO, and has been on the air mostly as a news reporter. However, he’s also taken it upon himself to do a web only show called “The Talk”, where he interviews some of the more famous people who request air time on KBOO, a... Read more

Movies opening Feb. 5, and a couple of rock docs

First, Stop Making Sense (1984) will be playing at the Whitsell Auditorium on Saturday, Feb 6. This is one of the best rock documentaries/performance films ever, period. Directed by Jonathan Demme, and featuring Talking Heads, the music and the visuals will knock you o... Read more

Thievery Corporation Special on THE MELTING POT 8-10pm (PST) 10/12/2010

Join your host Dr. J as he takes you on a Musical Journey through time and place. A virtual "Thievery" timeline starting in D.C. circa 1996 and touches down on the sounds of multiple cultures taking you up to today. Focusing on Lp's, Remixes, Singles, Collabs and the ... Read more

Campus Equity Week

Campus Equity Week is dedicated to addressing one particular inequity among the many inequities of life in the neoliberal age, and on the neoliberal campus: the increasing turn toward part-time and temporary positions among university teaching faculty. I draw here chie... Read more