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#Reform17 Part Three

Airs at: Sun, 10/29/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
Part three of our coverage of the Drug Policy Alliance's #Reform17 International Reform Conference, with GA state senate candidate Tamara Johnson-Shealey, Dan Bigg from the Chicago Recovery Alliance, and Cyndee Clay from HIPS DC. Chicago Recovery Alliance HIPS DC Tamara ... Read more

Decriminalization of Sex Work

Airs at: Mon, 10/30/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
The Drug Policy Alliance held its 2017 International Drug Policy Reform Conference recently in Atlanta, Georgia. This year’s policy conference was not dominated by white middle class male Libertarians -- thankfully -- and instead emphasized harm reduction, identity politics... Read more

RESCUING THE ISOLATED AND DISPLACED

Airs at: Mon, 10/23/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
  Most of the world simply has no health care... vast tracts of land and vast populations of people don't have doctors - or at best must make great efforts to reach medical care. In addition, masses of displaced people and refugees - over 100,000,000 at last count - desper... Read more

#MeToo

Airs at: Mon, 10/23/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Celeste and Cecil discuss the #metoo campaign. From the NYT: In 1997, Tarana Burke sat across from a 13-year-old girl who had been sexually abused. The young girl was explaining her experience, and it left Ms. Burke speechless. That moment is where the Me Too campaign ... Read more

Catalunya Against Austerity

Airs at: Mon, 10/16/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick interviews medical anthropologist Bayla Ostrach about Catalonian independence from Spain. Dr. Ostrach is author of Health Policy in a Time of Crisis: Abortion, Austerity, and Access, based in part on her research in Catalunya. They discuss the history of Cat... Read more

Local Group to Deliver Aid to Puerto Rico--Event this Saturday

Airs at: Tue, 10/17/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Puerto Rico is still suffering the consequences of Hurricane Maria and the somewhat haphazard government aid efforts. Ninety percent of the island is still without power, and clean water is near impossible to find, not to mention fuel to boil questionable water. A group of... Read more

The Clever Gut Diet

Airs at: Mon, 11/06/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Healthwatch
  Your gut is astonishingly clever. It contains millions of neurons—as many as you would find in the brain of a cat—and is home to the microbiome, an army of tiny organisms that influence your mood, your immune system, and even your appetite. In this groundbreaking book, D... Read more

Fasting and Feasting and Forest Gardens

Airs at: Wed, 10/18/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
On this episode of the Food Show I'll be talking with Adam Federman, author of Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray. Adam talks about how Patience impacted a generation of food writers and chefs through her life and writing. He also talks ab... Read more

MSF "Forced from Home" Exhibition Starts Today in Pioneer Square

Airs at: Thu, 10/12/2017 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
Starting today and running through October 22, the international medical aid group Medicins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) will be holding a free, interactive outdoor exhibition in Pioneer Courthouse Square called "Forced from Home," which invites you to see ... Read more

Reform 2017 Part One

Airs at: Sun, 10/15/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
Live from the Drug Policy Alliance's 2017 International Reform Conference, we hear from South African researcher Shaun Shelly, Pastor Kenneth Glasgow from The Ordinary Peoples' Society, and Drug Policy Alliance Executive Director Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno. Read more