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National STOPMAX Campaign - Taking the Next Steps

Airs at: Sun, 10/12/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Ruth shares a take of an interview she had with Lugman Abdullah at CR10.  Abdullah is the National STOPMAX Campaign Coordinator.  He shares his story about being locked up and then exonerated aver serving nine years on death row.  Ruth also talks about the documentary, Afte... Read more

Election Integrity - the problem for Oregon, the problem for America - Part 2

Airs at: Thu, 10/09/2008 at 5:00pm
  Chapter 1: Interview with Beth Peterson, Executive Director of Oregon Voter Rights Coalition Chapter 2: Readings from Richard Hayes Philips "Witness to a Crime", Conclusions Read more

Election Integrity - the problem for Oregon, the problem for America - Part 1

Airs at: Thu, 10/09/2008 at 5:00pm
Chapter 1: Why Oregon has a problem desoite its paper ballots. Chapter 2: Interview with Tim Scott, Director of Multnomah County Elections Chapter 3: Commentary  on  Multnomah County Election process Chapter 4: Mark Crispin Miller's 12-Step Program to Save American Democracy   Read more

Presswatch: Latest Top Censored Stories

Airs at: Wed, 10/08/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Presswatch
On the 10/09  Presswatch, host Theresa Mitchell interviews Peter Philip Philips, Director of Project Censored and Mickey Huff, Associate Director.  Phillips and Project Censored co-authored the new book: Censored 2009: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007-2008. Read more

Civil Liberties Watch: Hearings for Guantanamo Prisoners Begin

Airs at: Sun, 10/05/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
17 innoncent Uighurs refugees who have been imprisoned at Guantanamo are scheduled for a Habeas hearing in federal court on Tuesday. They are among the first prisoners to have the hearings, since the Supreme Court upheld their right to them in a June decision. The Supreme C... Read more

Joe & Abe w/ Dr. Lawrence Krauss

Airs at: Mon, 10/06/2008 at 5:00pm
 Hosts Abe Proctor and Joe Uris talk Politics, Economics, and now, Atheism with guest Dr. Lawrence Krauss, internationally famous theoretical physicist and avowed Atheist.    Read more

Like W, but with ambition

 Rolling Stone just put on an article on Sen McCain, which is as damning and devastating as most any piece of journalism I can recall. St. John is revealed as a short-tempered, misogynistic narcissist who differs from Dubya primarily on the basis of his ambition. Oh yeah, D... Read more

Civil Liberties Watch: A Roundup of Civil Liberty Battles & Heroes Civil Liberties Watch: A Roundup of Civil Liberty Battles & H

Airs at: Sun, 09/28/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  This edition  of Civil Liberties Watch is a roundup of current cvil liberty battles and their heroes. From the resignation of Prosecutor Vandeveld at Guantanamo to  charges being dropped against journalists arrested at the RNC victories for civil liberties are being won.O... Read more

APAs and the elections

Airs at: Thu, 10/02/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  APA Compass
First, representatives from APIA Vote and APA for Progress talks about APA involvement in electoral politics. Then, local organizers from the Latino Network and Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon discuss the potential impacts of measures on the November ballot for com... Read more

Interview, Jean Phaelzer author of Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans

Airs at: Tue, 09/23/2008 at 5:00pm
 Host Linda Olson-Osterlund interviews author Jean Phaelzer about her book Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans. From the Gold Rush in the 1840's through the Civil War and into the early 1900's Chinese faced brutal purges and roundups throughout the Pacif... Read more