Civil Liberties

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Civil Liberty Watch: Guantanamo Conditions Under Obama

Airs at: Tue, 03/03/2009 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
 On his second day in Office, President Obama issued an executive order to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. As part of that order he gave Secretary of Defense Gates thirty days to conduct a thorough review of the prisoners held there and the conditions of their confinement.... Read more

San Francisco's Anarchist Book Fair

Airs at: Tue, 03/03/2009 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
The 14th annual San Francisco Anarchist bookfair takes place this year on March 14th and 15th in Golden Gate Park, in lovely San Francisco California. The bookfair began in 1996 to celebrate an the 20th anniversary of San Francisco’s anarchist collective bookstore Bound T... Read more

Dear Leader

 So, as we will discuss on the show tomorrow, Washington is in the throes of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. This is an event where the purest of the ideologically pure gather to congratulate themselves on having ascended to the pinnacle of Western c... Read more

Corruption in PA

Airs at: Sun, 03/01/2009 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Judges in Pennsylvania—caught in corruption. Amy Goodman presented a segment giving us the details. As we listen, many questions come to mind; which Ruth highlights in the last few minutes. If you’d like us to do a Prison Pipeline program that deals with one of those que... Read more

Boneheads and Bigots

Airs at: Thu, 02/26/2009 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Boneheads and Bigots
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War Crimes and Impunity

Airs at: Wed, 02/25/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for: 
The Rule of Law.  The idea that the will of the Rulers can be bound by laws. Since the Magna Carta, It's seemed like a pretty good idea. This show addressed War Crimes and Impunity. Should the Bush administration be held accountable for possible war crimes?  What is the ob... Read more

Portland police tackle racial profiling...again

People of color continue to be stopped and searched by the police than other Portlanders. Racial profiling has not abated according to a draft 36-page report released February 18 by Portland Police Bureau Chief Rosie Sizer. The report, long awaited by the community, outl... Read more

Police tackle racial profiling...again

Airs at: Wed, 02/18/2009 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
People of color continue to be stopped and searched by the police than other Portlanders. Racial profiling has not abated according to a draft 36-page report released February 18 by Portland Police Bureau Chief Rosie Sizer. The report, long awaited by the community, outl... Read more

Liberal whiplash syndrome

 This about sums it up. -A H/T Salon.com   Read more

What gives?

 Huh. Apparently, during the Bush administration's waning days, Cheney lobbied ferociously for a pardon of Scooter Libby. And Dubya wouldn't budge.   In the waning days of the Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney launched a last-ditch campaign to persuade his bo... Read more