Civil Rights/Human Rights

Sojourner Truth Radio

Airs at: Thu, 06/28/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

Today on Sojourner Truth, we discuss the U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold Donald Trump's Muslim ban and the consequences of the ruling. Arab American Institute representative Ryan J. Suto and Council on American Islamic Relations Los Angeles representative Farida Ch... Read more

Electroshock revisited, with three survivors

Airs at: Wed, 06/27/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

Host Paul Roland welcomes back Deborah Schartzkopff, anti-electroshock activist based in McMinnville. She hosts the website ectjustice.com and is pursuing a national class action product liability suit around the devices used in electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) or el... Read more

Buscando America on 06/26/18

Airs at: Tue, 06/26/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Produced for: Buscando America

De plantones, ocupaciones y manifestaciones. ¿Quiénes son los benefiados de tanto centro de detención (migrant-shelter-business)? ¿Tanto en EEUU como en México? Escucha lo que sucede en ocuppyICE a una semana de plantón. Además hablamos con Claudia León, coordinadora de inc... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 25, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris hosts this episode of The Old Mole which includes: Trump and Global Trade: In a 2 part interview, Bill Resnick talks with Economist Jack Rasmus about Trump's trade theatrics, it's stated and real goals, and how the overall Trump program could crash and... Read more

Medical Cannabis as a Substitute for Opiates

Airs at: Sun, 06/24/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am

Produced for: Century Of Lies

This week: Dr. Dustin Sulak and Dr. Staci Gruber speaking about medical cannabis at the Patients Out of Time National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics; plus Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Read more

Your Home, Your Right or My Business?

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Radiozine

This week, Making Contact looks at California's fight over rent control. The stage is set for a political battle between two polar worldviews. Is housing a human right, or is real estate property an investment commodity? And where on that continuum is California's common... Read more

Human Rights and Drug Policy

Airs at: Wed, 06/20/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Free Culture Radio

Rick Lines is the executive director of Harm Reduction International. Rick has been working in HIV and harm reduction services, policy, and advocacy since the early 1990s. He is known for his leading work in the areas of HIV and prisons, prison needle slash syringe programs... Read more

Juneteenth

Airs at: Thu, 06/21/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

Today we discuss the roots and legacy of Juneteenth, which commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. state of Texas. We also discuss the dire political and humanitarian situation in Yemen as well as ongoing developments in the new Poor People'... Read more

Medea Benjamin on KBOO

Airs at: Wed, 06/27/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

Linda Olson-Osterlund is joined by CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin to discuss her new book Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ms. Benjamin just returned from South Korea where she's helping to mobilize the peace movement to su... Read more

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

Airs at: Wed, 06/20/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged "by teachers, administrators, and the justice system "and degraded by the very institutions charged... Read more