KBOO COMMUNITY RADIO
KBOO's Spring Membership is on it's way!
We are raising $100,000 from May 1st - 17th. 

We partnered with Friends of Trees and for contributions over $120, we will have them plant a tree in a public space this summer. 
 
 

  

 (877) 500-KBOO.
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What will be on during this drive? Take a look below.
 

May 1 - 8AM Voices from the Edge 

Investigative journalist Greg Palast returns. 

   

May 1 5-7PM Mayday! Mayday!

A special report on the state of the working class, locally and nationally

 

May 2 - 8AM Positively Revolting Talk Radio 

David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist

 

  

May 2 - 10-12AM Plugged In

This is the first of two membership drive specials. We are excited to have 2 great guest DJs in the studio. ET aka Evan Toutz is now the co-owner of A-Squared Music - the label started by Angel Alanis. He is also a curator for Satellite Records and a DJ and promoter here in Portland. Along with ET we have Uungh aka Zachary Oldham. He is a talented DJ and an avid supporter of the local underground scene. 

  

May 5 - 8AM More Talk Radio 

Guest is Micah Uetricht, author of Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity

 

May 8 - 8AM  Voices from the Edge

Betsy Leondar-Wright, author of Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures

 

 

May 9 -  7AM-8PM News/PA Day

"Countering the Neo-Liberal Agenda" Speeches and interviews on fighting neo-liberal policies and practices such as privatization, austerity, free trade, deregulation and corporatism." 

  

Audio from the Sabeel Palestine Conference and Cascadia Confluence.


KBOO investigates the American Legislative Exchange Council(ALEC) and their influence on the Oregon legislative body. 

 

May 12 - 8AM More Talk Radio 

Clay Risen, author of The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act 

 

  

May 12 - 10:15-11AM  Locus Focus 

Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 

  

May 13 - 9AM - 4PM Dismantling the prison-industrial complex special 

 

May 14 - 8AM- Noon - May Garden Special

A tribute to "Eve's Garden" and a special Dirtbag show.

 

May 14 - 2-4PM - Jim Pepper Special

 

 

May 16 -  10-12AM Plugged In

DJ Tronic is joined in the mix by guest DJ Josh Romo. For more on Josh, including upcoming events and DJ mixes, check out his site. \

 

 

Instrumental jams inside or in-between Grateful Dead songs, so you may not know what song is even on.


What would this show sound like without any songs?  Today I'll answer that long-standing curiosity of mine.

 

    


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Look at all these cool things going on!
KBOO is delighted to co-sponsor creative, educational and engaging community events.  May is a very busy month for our community partnerships.  Check out these upcoming events! For more info visit kboo.fm.

 
Join us on Saturday, May 3, 2014, as nearly three hundred cities worldwide, including Portland, will participate in the fifteenth annual Global Cannabis March. Portland participants will gather in Pioneer Courthouse Square to march at high noon through downtown Portland, accompanied by a police escort.

 

The keynote speaker for the event will be our own Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer, (District 3). He will be speaking immediately following the march.

 

 

 

On what would have been Pete Seeger's 95th birthday, we honor his life and his legacy with song and remembrances. This event is come and go as you please.
 
 

 
Steve Early, "How Unions Organize to Win"
Arun Gupta, "The Wal-Mart Working Class"
Johanna Brenner, "Organizing the Working Class: what does feminism have to do with it?"
 
 
Please join KBOO for a short discussion with bee experts on how you can right now help save our bees, and a screening of the delightful and inspiring film Queen of the Sun. This is a joint benefit for Sunnyside Environmental School Garden Program, and KBOO Community Radio.
 
 
 
 "Journey of Man." How did the human race populate the world? A group of geneticists have worked on the question for a decade, arriving at a startling conclusion: the "global family tree" can be traced to one African man who lived 60,000 years ago. Dr. Spencer Wells hosts this innovative series, featuring commentary by expert scientists, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists.
 
 
 
 
We'll be broadcasting a 2 hour 90's remix & mashup special live on 90.7fm KBOO and you can be a part of it. Feel free to dress up in your favorite 90's outfits, wigs and costumes or wear whatever makes you comfortable.
$7.00 admission, includes skates

This is a family friendly event for all ages... 
 


 

 

Cosponsoring Events

May is so busy. Let KBOO help you stay on top of what's happening in and around Portland. We have a dynamic media sponsorship program to help get the word out about all types of great, fun community events.
 
You can always see what's happening on our website under "Community Events" in the right side column. 
 
Learn how you can use our event sponsorship program by emailing Ani Haines or calling her at 503-231-8032.
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KBOO Staff

Co-Station Managers
Monica Beemer
Mic Crenshaw

Interim Program Director
Erin Yanke

AM News & Public Affairs Director
Kathleen Stephenson

PM News & Public Affairs Director
Jenka Soderberg

Administrative Assistant
Zale Chadwick

Interim Finance Coordinator
MacRae Bogdanov

Finance Assistant
Alexander Roberts

Interim Membership Director
Sun Lee

Underwriting Coordinator
Justin Miller

Volunteer Coordinator
Ani Haines

 

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