Philip Alston, the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
from the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights,
recently completed a visit to the United States. His report was a damning
indictment of the growing class divide within the US....
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This week we hear from Michelle Alexander about building the movement for
racial justice and drug policy reform. Michelle Alexander is a highly
acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar, and the author of
The New Jim Crow. She delivered a keynote address at...
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KBOO reporters Sam Bouman and Jasmin Moneymaker speak with a panel of guests
with many years and varieties of experience advocating for greater
accountability, reform and positive change in Portland's sytem of law
enforcement. The discussion is rooted in the City of Portlan...
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We interview journalist Maia Szalavitz and policy expert Sanho Tree about
this week's announcement that presidential adviser and spin doctor Kellyanne
Conway will head up the White House response to opioid issues.
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The KBOO Evening News Team"s Tom Flynn and KBOO News
Director Zeloszelos Marchandt review the ongoing series that includes
interviews from international and local authories about the sex trade. This
special edition produced for the fall fund-raiser features a live di...
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On Century of Lies this week: the city of Seattle adopted a new budget which
includes money to start up a supervised consumption facility so we hear from
Seattle residents Terina James and Marlys McConnell, as well as Seattle City
Council member Rob Johnson. Plus the UK Hou...
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On Sunday, October 29th 2017 nine individuals told their stories in a
performance titled: Shaping a Future: Life After Prison. The performance was
a culmination of writing workshops sponsored by the Regional Arts and
Culture Council. The project conceived of and organized ...
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On Sunday, October 29th 2017 nine individuals told their stories in a
performance titled: Shaping a Future: Life After Prison. The performance was
a culmination of writing workshops sponsored by the Regional Arts and
Culture Council. The project conceived of and organized ...
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This meaty episode digs into the modern escalation of the War on Drugs
through a rhetorical analysis of the 1989 National Drug Control Strategy, a
review of the concrete policing and sentencing policies which lead to the
exponential rise in prison populations, and a ground-...
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On this edition of Century of Lies, we discuss stigma, language, mental
health, harm reduction, and drug policy reform with Sarah Merrigan, one of
the hosts of the This Week In Drugs podcast.
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