This week on Century: Canada’s chief public health officer, Doctor Theresa
Tam, on decriminalization of drugs; Professor Edwin Lindo, JD, on police
brutality; and Professor Lisa Puglisi, MD, on prisons and Covid.
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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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Multnomah County library staff have been told that up to 128 library jobs may
be cut. Library director Vailey Oehlke has made no effort to clarify the
number of positions that will be cut to library staff. This has instilled a
sense of fear and uncertainty for staf...
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Movie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discuss “Crisis: Behind a
Presidential Commitment,” a 1963 documentary film by Robert Drew, Richard
Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker on the confrontation between the federal
government and Governor George Wallace over desegregation at ...
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Laurie Mercier speaks with Rev Dr. Liz Theoharis Director of the Kairos
Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice and Co-Chair, with Rev
William Barber, of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral
Revival. They discuss the Poor People’s Campaign Moral...
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Bill Resnick interviews Lawrence Douglas, Professor of Law, Jurisprudence
and Social Thought at Amherst College about his book Will He Go? Trump
and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020. Douglas points out that Trump is
desperate to stay in power and is setting up mec...
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Patricia Kullberg hosts the Old Mole which includes the following segments:
Will He Go? Bill Resnick interviews Lawrence Douglas, Professor of Law,
Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College about his book Will He
Go? Trump and the Looming Election Meltdow...
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Byrd and Cathy Camper, both librarians in the Multnomah County Library system
and members of AFSCME local 88 talk about impending layoffs. In the midst of
a pandemic, where some library workers are working from home, some in the
building or out in the community, some on ...
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Protests against police brutality have been ongoing in Portland for the last
two and a half months. On August 11th, new Multnomah County District Attorney
Mike Schmidt announced a policy intended to limit the types of charges
pressed against protesters in Portland.
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Barbara Fontaine is a democrat running for Oregon's House District 55 seat.
She talked with Don Merrill about why the environment is a primary concern,
how gun legislation has not moved off her plate of agenda items and the
effect African Americans and other marginalize...
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