Century Of Lies is a weekly half-hour show focused on drug policy reform and the failed war on drugs. The show explores public health, criminal justice, social justice, and other policies related to drugs in the US and abroad, and includes news reports, commentary, interviews, and other recorded segments. Century of Lies is a production of the Drug Truth Network and is syndicated via the Pacifica Foundation Radio Network.
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Legalization, Safe Supply, and Heroin Buyers Clubs. We hear from Steve Rolles
with the Transform Drug Policy Foundation, Sterling Johnson with Angels in
Motion and the Black and Brown Workers Cooperative, Neill Franklin with Law
Enforcement Action Partnership, and Erica ...
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This week on Century, Dr. Thomas Pietschmann with the UN Office on Drugs and
Crime tells us about the UN’s 2020 World Drug Report. He was part of a
webinar hosted recently by the Vienna Nongovernmental Organizing Committee.
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This week on Century, we hear portions of a webinar organized by the Fortune
Society on “Brutality Behind Bars: Accountability for Corrections Officers,
Too," featuring Jai Diamond, New York City Criminal Justice Agency;
Assemblyman David Weprin, Chair of the New York St...
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This week on Century: Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project at the
Institute for Policy Studies, talks about “COVID, Modernity, Lifeways &
Drug Use.” His talk was part of an IPS webinar series entitled
“Progressive Politics and the Time of Pandemic" and comes t...
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Transform Drug Policy Foundation and Anyone’s Child recently held a webinar
entitled “Take Drugs Seriously.” We hear from two of the panelists:
Anne-Marie Cockburn, one of the founders of Anyone’s Child; and Johann
Hari, author of the bestseller Chasing the Scream: The S...
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This week we hear portions of “Tweaking Our Harm Reduction: A Stimulants
Webinar.” Participants included:
Dr. Sheila P Vakharia, Deputy Director of the Department of Research and
Academic Engagement for the Drug Policy Alliance; Christine Rodriguez, a
consultant in drug...
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The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony recently on “Police Use of
Force and Community Relations.” On this edition of Century of Lies we hear
from some of the witnesses including S. Lee Merritt, a civil rights activist
and attorney with Merritt Law Firm of Philade...
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The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on June 10, 2020 entitled
Oversight Hearing on Policing Practices and Law Enforcement Accountability.
We’ll hear from some of the witnesses, including: Vanita Gupta, President
and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and ...
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Correlation – European Harm Reduction Network recently brought together a
panel of experts to share insights on recent developments in their harm
reduction practices, the challenges experienced by their communities, and the
impact of COVID19 on operations. We’ll hear fro...
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CENTURY OF LIES: The Council on Criminal Justice’s Task Force on Federal
Priorities recently released a report entitled “Next Steps: An Agenda for
Federal Action on Safety and Justice.” We hear from two Task Force members,
Eddie Bocanegra, Senior Director of READI Chicag...
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