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This Is Your Brain On Drugs

Airs at: Fri, 11/17/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Prison Breakdown
This meaty episode digs into the modern escalation of the War on Drugs through a rhetorical analysis of the 1989 National Drug Control Strategy, a review of the concrete policing and sentencing policies which lead to the exponential rise in prison populations, and a ground-... Read more

The Broken Country

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  The Broken Country is a book-length essay on cultural trauma and the inter-generational legacies of war. In 2012, a young Vietnamese man named Kiet Thanh Ly walked into a downtown Salt Lake City megastore, purchased a knife, and began stabbing white male passersby in the... Read more

The Case of Michelle Wright

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Emma Lugo interviews Kelly Simon from the ACLU concerning the case of Michele Wright. Michelle Wright is a transgender female prisoner incarcerated in a men’s prison in the state of Oregon who recently won a lawsuit regarding adequate medical care and requesting a bi-monthl... Read more

"Slavery Didn't End; It Evolved"

Airs at: Fri, 11/10/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Prison Breakdown
To understand why mass incarceration is the racial justice issue of our time, we must situate the exponential growth of the prison system within the historical legacy of slavery. The first half of this episode traces the evolution of slavery from the Reconstruction Era thro... Read more

The Mystery and Physics of World Trade Center Seven

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
This is the fifth episode in my series on 9/11. These are interviews with those who are speaking out about the 9/11 false flag and cover up. These are scientists and scholars who are showing us that the science supports what we see with our own eyes, that the three World Tr... Read more

Sex4Sale: Episode 1, Introduction

Airs at: Tue, 11/07/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This is the first episode of Sex4Sale, a 10-part series about the business of sex in Portland, OR--what we know, what we don't know, and what we think we know. In this episode, we'll take an overhead view of the project--future episodes will zoom in on more specific topics.... Read more

Occupation or Assembly?: PSU Graduate Project Examines Coverage of Protest Events

Airs at: Mon, 11/06/2017 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Andrew Butz is a Portland State University graduate student in Sociology who is researching his dissertation on a timely subject—the way the media treats protest events. He is comparing newspaper coverage of two signal events in recent American political life: Occupy Wall S... Read more

Holding District Attorneys Accountable

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
District attorneys are the most powerful elected players in the criminal justice system, yet most people don’t know who they are or what they do.  Karen James interviews David Rogers, Executive Director, ACLU of Oregon and Daniel Lewkow, manager of THEY REPORT TO YOU, ACLU’... Read more

#TakeAKnee

Airs at: Mon, 11/06/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcom Kelly Simon of the ACLU of Oregon to discuss the ongoing issues around the the National Anthem and to help clarify the rights of students who choose to exercise their freedom of expression. Read more

Left & the Law: Sexual Harassment

Airs at: Mon, 10/30/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker talk about the history of sexual harassment cases--a feminist campaign that came out of second-wave feminism and the politics of the workplace.  They also take up the limits of court settlements, the Harvey Weinstein case, and what Henry Kiss... Read more