Civil Liberties

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Mark Rudd's new memoir: Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weatherman

Airs at: Tue, 04/21/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  Host Barbara Bernstein interviews Sixties activist Mark Rudd about his new memoir: "Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weatherman."    41 years ago this week students at Columbia University began an occupation of their campus that shut down the university and resonated ... Read more

Bathroom Access and Safety

Airs at: Mon, 04/20/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Gender Blender
While there are few things more primal than the need to use the bathroom many trans and gender variant individuals find that answering natures call is needlessly complicated and often downright dangerous. Few gendered spaces are as vehemently patrolled and the penality for ... Read more

Conservative Teabagging, and the Bush-era Torture Memos

Airs at: Mon, 04/20/2009 at 5:00pm
 Today, Abe Proctor hosts.  First, we'll talk about Teabagging, then we'll cover the Bush-era Torture Memos in the second half of the show. At the end of the day, the teabaggers are racists. It's the only intellectual thread (and I use that term loosely) that unifies all ... Read more

Everyone's forgiven. Let's move on

April 21, 2009 Here's your White House Chief of Staff, speaking on ABC this past Sunday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cvp-7YOtRI&feature=player_embedded According to Rahm, it is the president's position that everybody involved in torture gets a free pass. The officials who... Read more

The torture memos

April 21, 2009 A little light reading. There will be a quiz. -A   Read more

A little racism with your tea?

April 20, 2009 I was all set to write a brilliant psychosocial expose of the racist undercurrent of the April 15 Teabag Parties, and then I saw this video of Janean Garofalo and Kieth Olbermann hitting the nail on the head. (I'm going to figure out how to embed video, I swe... Read more

Jailhouse Lawyers: A review from OSP

Airs at: Sun, 04/19/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Ruth reads a review of Mumia's new book "Jailhouse Lawyers" as told by Damon Lee Petrie, a prisoner/writer at OSP.  There will be a Book Party on Friday, April 24th at 7 p.m. at the Bread and Roses Center. @ 819 N. Killingsworth St. Read more

Creating accountable immigration enforcement

Airs at: Wed, 04/15/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Over 440,000 people will be detained by the U.S. government this year. Women, children, the elderly, asylum seekers, torture victims and even long-time permanent residents will be detained for months - in some cases years - awaiting a determination on their status. Many of ... Read more

The Incredible US Incarceration Rate, Tax Havens for Scoundrels, and Suspicious Debris from the Twin Towers

Airs at: Wed, 04/15/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Presswatch
Host Theresa Mitchell takes a look at how our prison cells are overcrowded, one of 4 of the world's prisoners is an American, and we lock up our children.  Totalitarianism? Also evasion of taxes through foreign tax havens, and politicians going easy on the bankers  -- bodes... Read more

Civil Liberties Watch: Obama DOJ claims "Sovereign Immunity"

Airs at: Wed, 04/08/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
The Obama Department of Justice has put forth a claim of “Sovereign Immunity” in a motion to dismiss in the domestic spying case of Jewell v. NSA. The lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the National Security Agency for spying on tens of thousands of... Read more