Activism

Nakba Day

Airs at: Wed, 05/15/2024 at 10:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radio Free Palestine, Special Programming: Public Affairs

Here at KBOO, we are acknowledging Nakba Day. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians that occurred during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, known as the "Nakba", or "Catastrophe". The anniversary puts the spotlight on one of the world’s l... Read more

Earth Day Special Programming

On Monday, April 22nd, KBOO Community Radio celebrates Earth Day with special programming devoted to everything Mother Earth, ecological justice, environmental awareness, climate activism and animal rights advocacy. Either poetic and imaginative, or highly researched and... Read more

Stopping Zenith Energy Once and For All

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

For seven years Portland community members have been trying to shut down Zenith Energy, a Houston-based oil company that sneaked into Portland in 2017. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality just opened the public comment period for Zenith’s draft Air Contaminant D... Read more

Queery: Existence is Resistance

Airs at: Sat, 11/16/2024 at 10:00pm - Sun, 11/17/2024 at 12:00am

Produced for: Queery

Emotions are volatile in this moment. Fear. Anger. Anxiety. Everything you feel is valid. While we don’t know what the future holds, we know we are stronger together. This month, we’re exploring queer protest songs. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 18, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Palestine Exception: After years of right-wing assaults on higher education, attacks took a new form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As stud... Read more

In Tribute to Joe Hill

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Hill was a beloved member of the IWW, a songwriter and activist who is known for such labor classics as “The Preacher and the Slave,” “There is Power in a Union,” and “Rebel Girl.” In 1914 he was convicted of a murder the evidence suggests he did not commit. Tomorrow ma... Read more

Palestinian Novel

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

What role might be played in political struggle by cultural creations? A new novel, Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad, raises this question doubly: both as a novel set in current struggles and in the story it recounts about the contested effort to mount a theatre production in... Read more

The Palestine Exception

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

After years of right-wing assaults on higher education, attacks took a new form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism o... Read more

Oregon Healthcare Workers Join National Call: Stop the Gaza Genocide

Airs at: Fri, 11/08/2024 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Radiozine

On November 1, Portland Healthcare Workers 4 Palestine (HCW4P-PDX) joined the National Actions by HCWs in cities around the world to demand that their hospitals and health systems take urgent and immediate action to protect healthcare in Gaza. Healthcare Workers (HCWs) read... Read more