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Shaping a Future: Life After Prison - Part 2

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On Sunday, October 29th 2017 nine individuals told their stories in a performance titled: Shaping a Future: Life After Prison. The performance was a culmination of  writing workshops sponsored by the Regional Arts and Culture Council. The project conceived of and organized ... Read more

Shaping a Future: Life After Prison - Part 1

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On Sunday, October 29th 2017 nine individuals told their stories in a performance titled: Shaping a Future: Life After Prison. The performance was a culmination of  writing workshops sponsored by the Regional Arts and Culture Council. The project conceived of and organized ... Read more

Dennis Banks & Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  Dennis Banks left on his final Journey Dennis Banks is remembered for having organized, with AIM in a coalition of 8 indigenous nations, the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties. They converged on Washington, DC, with 500 followers to protest Indian living conditions and lost t... Read more

Deportations, Ice raids, DACA & Oregon's Drivers Licencing

Airs at: Wed, 11/22/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Linda Olson-Osterlund welcomes Andrea Williams, the Executive Director of Causa....Oregon's Immigrant Rights Organization founded in 1995 by farmworkers, Latinos, immigrants, and allies in order to defeat ballot measures that would have negatively impacted the lives of L... 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 ground-... Read more

The Case of Michelle Wright

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Emma Lugo interviews Kelly Simon from the ACLU concerning the case of Michele Wright. Michelle Wright is a transgender female prisoner incarcerated in a men’s prison in the state of Oregon who recently won a lawsuit regarding adequate medical care and requesting a bi-monthl... Read more

I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwins original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey... Read more

"Slavery Didn't End; It Evolved"

Airs at: Fri, 11/10/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Prison Breakdown
To understand why mass incarceration is the racial justice issue of our time, we must situate the exponential growth of the prison system within the historical legacy of slavery. The first half of this episode traces the evolution of slavery from the Reconstruction Era thro... Read more

Holding District Attorneys Accountable

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
District attorneys are the most powerful elected players in the criminal justice system, yet most people don’t know who they are or what they do.  Karen James interviews David Rogers, Executive Director, ACLU of Oregon and Daniel Lewkow, manager of THEY REPORT TO YOU, ACLU’... Read more

#TakeAKnee

Airs at: Mon, 11/06/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcom Kelly Simon of the ACLU of Oregon to discuss the ongoing issues around the the National Anthem and to help clarify the rights of students who choose to exercise their freedom of expression. Read more