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Life and Music of Mavis Staples

Airs at: Mon, 03/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
This segment includes of songs by Mavis Staples and the Staples Singers, plus a discussion of her music and her career with radical musicologist Brad Duncan and the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.  Their music was an integral part of the civil rights movement, and she's still at i... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 03/11/10

Airs at: Thu, 03/11/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
The appointment of Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler as state treasurer last Tuesday churned county and state political waters this week. Wheeler, appointed by Governor Kulongoski to fill the vacancy created by State Treasurer Ben Westlund's death, is now better positioned... Read more

Stephen Vladeck: Free Speech, Peacemakers and the Supreme Court

Airs at: Mon, 03/01/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for More Talk Radio
Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Stephen Vladeck, Professor at Washington College of Law, American University, about "Free Speech, Peacemakers and the Supreme Court." On Tuesday, Feb. 23, the Supreme Court heard a one hour oral argument for Holder v. Humanit... Read more

Dan Handelman from Copwatch on Portland Police Accountability

Airs at: Wed, 03/03/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Wednesday Talk Radio
With a spate of police violence incidents hitting the headlines, the Independent Police Review Division is soon to come under a microscope for how it investigates complaints against Portland law enforcement.  Portland Copwatch  and  Peace and Justice Works volunteer Dan Han... Read more

Political Perspectives on 2/10/10

Airs at: Wed, 02/10/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Political Perspectives
In part one of the Feb 10, 2010 Political Perspectives, Michelle Schroeder Fletcher interviews blogger Brad Friedman of the Brad Blog about the case of rightwing activist James O'Keefe, his federal felony arrest late last month, and his infamous secretly taped video intervi... Read more

Some Principles of Indigenous Law and Critical Thinking for Conflict Resolution

Some Principles of Critical Thinking: http://wwwthesixthestate.blogspot.com/2009/09/on-critical-thinking-separating-pepper.htmlSaturday, November 10, 2007 Aboriginal Justice Sunday, November 14, 2004Aboriginal Justice [Residential Schools] Aboriginal Justicewritten by Jam... Read more

The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law: Interview Jonathan Hafetz

Airs at: Thu, 02/25/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for A Deeper Look
Jonathan Hafetz of The National Security Project of the ACLU joins host Llinda Olson-Osterlund to talk about the new book  he co-edited, The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law. This book has the voices of over a hundred attorneys from all types of practice... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 02/25/10

Airs at: Thu, 02/25/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
On January 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme court took another step in the long - and many say misguided - journey to granting corporations personhood under the U.S. Constitution. In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a five-member majority of the court increased the... Read more

Political Perspectives on 02/24/10

Airs at: Wed, 02/24/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for Political Perspectives
Oregon lawyer Lauren Regan speaks on "One Struggle, One Fight: Intergenerational Political Prisoners." This talk was recorded this past Friday at Reed College as part of a panel discussion. CD-1661 Read more

Vancuover Olympics and Civil Liberties

Airs at: Fri, 02/12/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Evening News
The Winter Olympics are set to begin in British Columbia, Canada this weekend and one group hopes to reveal significant civil liberties issues behind the winter games. Protesters with the Olympic Resistance Network point to a number of new laws enacted just for the Olympi... Read more