Civil Liberties

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Welcome to the Machine. The USA PATRIOT Act has been renewed for another four years.

Airs at: Tue, 06/07/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris.   The surveillance state ushered in under the reign of Bush the Younger was given a bipartisan imprimatur in late May when the USA PATRIOT Act was renewed for another four years. Warrantless wiretaps? You bet. Illegal searches of perso... Read more

Well Read Red: animal resistance

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann comments on a number of animal attacks that demonstrate a form of resistance to abuse and exploitation. She then focuses making a case against Thaddeus Russell's dismissive review of a book about such acts of animal resistance. Read more

War on Drugs: failures, misconceptions and alternatives.

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill and Sanho talk about the reasons why the war on drugs has failed to curb abuse while defying empirical evidence about usage. More importantly, Sanho points out, the Drug Warriors fails to grasp why some people use drugs and why most others don't: the lack of means to l... Read more

Muslim-American activists discuss Osama Bin Laden's death

Airs at: Fri, 05/06/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Last month, President Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden to the world. Sarika Mehta spoke with Afifa Ahmed Shafi and Muna Abshir Muhamud, two Muslim-American community members, on their thoughts surrounding the death of Osama Bin Laden, the past decade of Islamoph... Read more

WikiLeaks & Guantanamo; What Can We Learn?

Airs at: Thu, 05/26/2011 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  A Deeper Look
Guest: Andy Worthington; WikiLeaks media partner and author of The Guantanamo Files: The Stories Of The 774 Detainee's Locked In America's Illegal Prison. On April 24th WikiLeaks released thousands of pages of classified military documents from Guantanamo. What can we learn... Read more

Will Oregon be first to end prohibition of cannabis?

Airs at: Wed, 05/25/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
 Host Stephanie Potter speaks Paul Stanford and Jennifer Alexander who are working to put the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 2012 on the November, 2012 ballot. If passed this initiative would legalize the purchase of marijuana (through state licensed stores), license Oregon farmer... Read more

The 11th annual Village Building Convergence!

Airs at: Tue, 05/24/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   The City Repair Projects's Mark Lakeman joins Abe and Joe to discuss the upcoming 11th annual Village Building Convergence, set for May 27-June 5 at more than 40 sites throughout the city. Portlanders will come together to create benc... Read more

Robert Whitaker on the astonishing rise of mental illness in America

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
 Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America. Robert Whitaker probed into clinical studies in prestigious scientific journals, som... Read more

Voices from the Edge 05-19-11 How well do we support those with mental illness?

Airs at: Thu, 05/19/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
How well do we support those with mental illness? An estimated 137,000 Oregonians suffer from serious mental illness and nearly 39,000 children live with serious mental health conditions. How well do we support these individuals and their families? Oregon's public mental h... Read more

Rural Organizing Project in Bend

Airs at: Wed, 05/18/2011 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
The Rural Organizing Project held its annual rural caucus on May 7th, in Bend Oregon.  On ths episode of Circle A Radio, we will listen to speeches from the event, hear participants in the march on Representative Greg Walden’s office, and talk to individual members of Rural... Read more