Law/Court/Crime

Trade Policy in the Presidential Election, Israeli and Palestinian Trauma Victims and PPS Bans Climate Change Denial Texts

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick interviews Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch on why US trade policy has become a central issue for both parties. Jan Haaken talks with Judy Roth, an activist with Psychologists for Social Responsibility on her work with Israeli and Palestinian trauma victim... Read more

News In Depth on 06/02/16

Airs at: Thu, 06/02/2016 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm

Produced for: News In Depth

With You on the Journey: Families of People in Prison Tell Their Stories, Part 6

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

With You on the Journey was a performance of monologues written by family members of people in prison, it included 11 monologues by 10 family members. The performance was the culmination of six writing workshops and was held at The First Unitarian Church of Portland on O... Read more

Are you a survivor of the Enron debacle?

Produced for: News In Depth

The ENRON scandal was one of the biggest cases of corporate corruption in the history of the United States. Few people remember that Oregon was the hardest-hit state by the corporation’s implosion. ENRON owned Portland General Electric – the fraud-filled corporation’s only ... Read more

A Shared Sentence: Children of Prisoners

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Karen James interviews Laura Speer, associate director for Policy Reform Advocacy at the Annie E Casey Foundation, the nation’s leading organization for the overall well-being of children. Over 5 million children nationwide have had an incarcerated parent. The loss of a par... Read more

Century Of Lies for May 22 2016

Airs at: Sun, 05/22/2016 at 12:00am - 12:30am

Produced for: Century Of Lies

This week: we speak with author and journalist Maia Szalavitz about addiction, overdose, and her new book Unbroken Brain; plus we talk about criminal justice with death row DNA exoneree Kirk Bloodsworth. Read more

White Man Said Walk

Airs at: Wed, 05/18/2016 at 7:00pm - 8:45pm

Democracy Here presents: White Man Said Walk: The disorderly conduct trial of Teressa Raiford Portland Police arrested Ms Raiford on August 9, 2015 at an event marking one-year since the Ferguson Police death of Michael Brown. Her trial ran four days, ending April ... Read more

The Struggle Inside & Out: Supporting Prisoner Strikes

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Adam Carpinelli will interview activist Ben Turk. A long term activist supporting all prisoners including Political Prisoners, Turk is connected to several different movements and organizations working around national prisoner strikes. We will discuss the upcoming Septemb... Read more

Century Of Lies for May 15 2016

Airs at: Sun, 05/15/2016 at 12:00am - 12:30am

Produced for: Century Of Lies

This week we speak with California NORML's Dale Gieringer, and Portland NORML's Scott Gordon, plus we hear from author and marijuana expert Robert C. Clarke. Read more

Teressa Raiford's Disorderly Conduct Trial, April 18-21, 2016

On August 9, 2015 Portland Police arrested Ms Raiford when an event commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Police death of Michael Brown spilled out into the intersection of South East Division and 82nd Avenue. Is standing in the street disorderly conduct? ... Read more