Civil Rights/Human Rights

The Justice System’s War on Kids: Cara Drinan

Airs at: Tue, 01/30/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

The juvenile justice system is off the rails. It is in urgent need of reform. The U.S. incarcerates roughly 2 million children every year, even though 95 percent of them have not been convicted of a violent crime. Too many of them are held in adult facilities. The system... Read more

Portland's African American Boys: How To Be An Ally

Airs at: Mon, 01/29/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Justice Rajee discusses his passion and advocacy for Black boys in Portland and the new course entitled: "Portland's African American Boys: How to be an Ally" this February at the Portland Underground Graduate School. The course will focus on the past, present, and future ... Read more

Betty Before X author Renee Watson

Airs at: Thu, 02/01/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

In Detroit, 1945, eleven-year-old Betty's house doesn't quite feel like home. She believes her mother loves her, but she can't shake the feeling that her mother doesn't want her. Church helps those worries fade, if only for a little while. The singing, the preaching, the sp... Read more

Kids at NORCOR Regional Jail

Airs at: Mon, 02/05/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Karen James interviews Sarah Radcliffe, an attorney with Disability Rights Oregon, about her investigative report “Don’t Look Around”: A Window into Inhumane Conditions for Youth at NORCOR, that found that kids held at the Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facility (NOR... Read more

THE ECONOMICS OF IMMIGRATION POLITICS

Airs at: Mon, 01/29/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Richard Wolff of the Economics of Immigration Politics...Voices on the Women's March...Gerald Horne on South Africa and Israel...Headlines on DACA, Medicare For All Town Hall, Hugh Masekela and More We speak with economist Richard Wolff about the economics behind the i... Read more

Israel's attempts to censor the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement

Airs at: Fri, 01/26/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: One Land Many Voices

Today on One Land Many Voices, we have a two-part special produced by our friends at Pacifica Radio. The first half of the program will be Rise up with Sonali. Israel has decided to ban 20 organizations including Codepink, in a direct response to the Boycott, Divestment, a... Read more

Rural Organizing Project's Jess Campbell Teams Up with Oregon Humanities

Airs at: Tue, 01/23/2018 at 5:15pm

Produced for: Evening News

Rural Organizing Project's Co-Director Jess Campbell Teams Up with Oregon Humanities

Airs at: Tue, 01/23/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:45pm

Produced for: Evening News

Families of Those Lost to Police Violence Unite for Justice and Reform

Airs at: Tue, 01/23/2018 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm

Produced for: Evening News

Tomorrow morning there will be a protest in front of the Multnomah County Courthouse. A community group, made up of families who have lost loved ones to police violence, will be calling attention to the role that district attorneys play in the lack of justice for these kill... Read more

Women's March REDUX

Airs at: Wed, 01/24/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

The Womens Marches around the nation and around the world, which took place the weekend of January 20, 2018, shocked many by the large turnouts. Six hundred thousand marches attended in Los Angeles, while Chicago's turnout grew from last year's inaugural march and Las Ve... Read more