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Disability Solidarity with TL Lewis

Airs at: Fri, 01/06/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Bread and Roses

This week we're talking to social justice engineer, activist-attorney, and founder of HEARD (Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities), Talila "TL" Lewis. We talk about deafness and disability in relation to the school-to-prison pipeline, disability solida... Read more

Legislation for Healing Not Handcuffs

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Host Karen James interviews Bob Joondeph, Executive Director, Disability Rights Oregon. DRO is an organization that helps people with disability-related legal issues and also monitors Oregon’s jails and prisons. Bob Joondeph discusses DRO’s proposed legislation for the ... Read more

It's 2017. The drug war continues.

Airs at: Sun, 01/01/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am

Produced for: Century Of Lies

This week: Mason Tvert with MPP on adult social use marijuana legalization, Yuri Fedotov with UNODC on Afghanistan opium, plus new research from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and a few words from travel guru and NORML board member Rick Steves. Read more

The Largest Methanol Refinery in the World

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

As this year draws to a painful close, amidst all the political debris, we can look back at some major environmental successes. Communities across the Pacific Northwest have stopped proposals to build coal terminals in Washington and Oregon, a giant methanol refinery in Tac... Read more

14 Years of Torture: Time to Shut Down Guantánamo

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Join host Emma Lugo as she interviews guests Megan Harrington, Max White and Marty Fromer of Amnesty International on the upcoming 14th anniversary of the opening of the US torture prison, Guantánamo Bay, which still holds sixty prisoners. On Wednesday, January 11th at 4pm... Read more

A Look Back on 2016

Airs at: Fri, 12/30/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Bread and Roses

To close out the year, we'll play some memorable moments from 2016 episodes, including Danica Brown on transformative direct action at Standing Rock, Leslie Gregory on racism as a public health threat, Kiki Nicole with Unchaste Readers on erasure with their blackout poetry ... Read more

Marshall "Eddie" Conway on Sojourner Truth Radio

Airs at: Fri, 12/30/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

Today, we broadcast our one-hour, in-studio special with former Black Panther Party leader, decades-long political prisoner, and The Real News Executive Producer Marshall "Eddie" Conway. Marshall "Eddie" Conway (born April 23, 1946) was the Minister of Defense of the ... Read more

Fuck 2016!

Airs at: Fri, 12/30/2016 at 12:00am - 3:00am

Produced for: The Sacred Circle "TEMENOS"

Here's to 2017 being all about "Fuck Yeah!" vs. the shit show of 2016 and all the: "Oh Fuck!" "Fuck No" and "Fuck this" momements. We'll be celebrating the lives and works of many of the artists we've lost in 2016 and the healing po... Read more

Black Power at 50 in D.C.

Airs at: Thu, 12/29/2016 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Part 4 of our series, Black Power: 50 Years in DC, Nineteen Sixty-Six to Two Thousand Sixteen, marking the half century anniversary of the call for Black Power in this country in 1966. Today, a wide-ranging conversation with educator and activist Tom Porter about his vie... Read more

Be Wary of those Unpaid Internships, and How Scandinavians Got the Economy Right

Airs at: Thu, 12/29/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Vice President Ross Eisenbrey of the Economic Policy Institute joins us to discuss how Unpaid Interns Fare Worse in the Job Market and how the opportunities for paid work has been decreasing for recent graduates. Author George Lakey joins us to talk about his book Viking... Read more