Civil Rights/Human Rights

Portland Metro People's Convention

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm

Produced for: Labor Radio

Johanna Brenner of the Portland Metro People's Coalition discusses their upcoming convention. Modeled after the Richmond Progressive Alliance, the Jackson Collaborative and the Barcelona Commune, the PMPC is organizing a People's Convention to ratify a Resident's Bill of R... Read more

Right to Health focuses on racism as a public health issue

Airs at: Wed, 03/28/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Recovery Zone

Leslie Gregory has been working to bring attention to racism as a national, public health crisis. As the founder of the non-profit Right to Health US, she has challenged the Center for Disease Control to declare racism a public health threat, including this petition at Mov... Read more

The Culture of Punishment

Airs at: Wed, 03/21/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Free Culture Radio

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Pushing Back Against the Culture of Punishment. The White House is pushing for a renewed war on drugs. The attorney general, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III – yes, that’s his real name – issued a memo to all US Attorneys on March Tw... Read more

Buscando America on 03/20/18

Airs at: Tue, 03/20/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Produced for: Buscando America

En este programa hablamos con Eduardo Corona para conocer detalles sobre lo que los mexicanos pueden hacer para participar en las próximas elecciones presidenciales del 1 de julio. Además, en cabina Roy Antonio Arauz y la actriz Nelda Reyes nos invitan a ver la obra The ... Read more

Can You See the White? (Part 2)

Airs at: Fri, 03/23/2018 at 10:00am - 10:15am

Produced for: Valley Views

Faith is a white woman who reflects on personal and societal events that shaped her life’s journey to racial justice and equity awareness. I asked Faith to be on the show because she and I have had many conversations about race that may be inspiring to listeners. I admire... Read more

Fascism Exported to the Caribbean and Africa

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

On this show, our first 2018 episode of The F-Word, when we talk about fascism. Professor Margaret Stevens, author of the new book 'Red International and Black Caribbean' joins us for a discussion that you don't want to miss. And one million students marching around the ... Read more

Knowledge is Power: Outsmarting the Prison Industrial Complex

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Adam Carpinelli interviews Dr. Peter Bohmer, a long time activist and professor of political economy at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Bohmer has been fighting for civil and human rights since the 60's and has a been a target of near fatal state repres... Read more

From Mercenaries to Marijuana

Airs at: Sun, 03/18/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am

Produced for: Century Of Lies

This week we look at human rights and the drug war and hear from Maricela Orozco, a member of the Familiares en Búsqueda María Herrera collective, a group of family members of the disappeared organized in several states across Mexico; plus we take a look at the new owner of... Read more

I Will Not Fear: Melba Beals of the LittleRock Nine

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

In 1957, Melba Patillo Beals, was one of nine African-American high school students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. She became a journalist, professor, author, and at the age of 52 adopted twin sons. In her book, I Will Not Fear: My Stor... Read more

Maru vs. ICE

Airs at: Wed, 03/14/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

Maru Mora and Andrea Williams join Linda Olson-Osterlund to discuss the struggles of those who are facing deportation under Trump's regime. At the end of December, immigrant activist Maru Mora Villalpando received a letter from ICE putting her in deportation proceedings.... Read more