This episode is hosted by Frann Michel, and explores debates over left
strategies. The show includes some musical selections from Bitch Magazine's
mixtape of American Protest Music, and the individual segments linked below:
Bill Resnick and Norm Diamond discuss left persp...
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Jan Haaken talks with Kate Raphael about the Supreme Court's decisions on
reproductive rights, including McCullen v Coakley striking down no-protest
buffer zones around reproductive health care clinics that provide abortions,
on which Raphael recently commented for the W...
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In recognition of 14 July, Frann Michel comments on Bastille Day, the holiday
commemorating the French Revolution of 1789. You can read her comments, with
links, here.
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Eugene listeners will be interested to know that if they’re stopped at a
police checkpoint this coming weekend, they had better agree to perform a
Breathalyzer test, or risk being forced to have their blood drawn by the
police.
During the coming holiday weekend in Eug...
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Dr. Benjamin Chavis is a civil rights pioneer. He led the NAACP in the early
90s and he was the director of the Million Man March. He is involved in a
number of self empowerment initiatives including a collaboration with media
mogul Russell Simmons to use hip hop as a ...
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Denis Theriault of the Portland Mercury discusses how the Portland Police
Bureau has stopped making public their data on use of force against
"transients."
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Frann Michel and Iven Hale take a second critical look at the latest season
of Orange is the New Black (click here to hear season one review). They
discuss its potential merit, including just increasing the exposure of the
prison industrial complex in popular culture, bu...
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Bill Resnick hosts this show about the tensions between possible
futures--either ruled by military and corporate power or else organized as
cooperative community. We hear these segments:
Joseph DeFilipppis: Beyond Marriage Equality
Checking in on Border Checkpoints
Bill...
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Jan Haaken talks with Sophie Smith of People Helping People about their work
with No More Deaths providing aid to migrants near the Us-Mexico border, and
monitoring US Border Patrol Interior Checkpoints. They discuss the
militarization of the border through the 1990s O...
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Joseph DeFilippis, a founder of Queers for Economic Justice and drafter of
the Beyond Same-Sex Marriage Statement, talks with Bill Resnick about the
limits of the marriage-equality movement and what comes next. He notes the
inadequacy of marriage as a legal frame for di...
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