Civil Rights/Human Rights

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Striking Lessons

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Appearing at the Trouble Makers School in Portland before more than 200 union members, stewards and activists, Barbara Madeloni discussed the national picture for public pchool teachers organizing and how and why strikes work.  Madeloni is the Education Coordinator at Labo... Read more

What is Public Health?

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In our new Old Mole segment on Public Health and the Pandemic, Jan Haaken and Patricia Kullberg follow the race for a coronavirus vaccine and some of the misleading claims circulating in the media, and they discuss ways of looking at infectious diseases from public health v... Read more

Nursing the Commons

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks to Ted Levine a nurse in NYC, a rank and file activist and spokesperson for the nurses in NYC hospitals. They first point out that nurses have learned a great deal in the COVID crisis: For one that they are risking their lives in understaffed and under eq... Read more

Buscando America on 05/19/20

Airs at: Tue, 05/19/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
  En este programa festejamos a Juan Rulfo con fragmentos del cuento Talpa. También platicamos con Bárbara Sánchez Galeano de Detention Watch Network sobre las primeras personas que han perdido la vida en detención. Desde San Cristóbal, un reporte de Franco Torti  sobre el... Read more

Thinking Outside The Box

Airs at: Wed, 05/20/2020 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
The COVID crisis is having a particularly deadly impact within the criminal justice system. Unfortunately systems are slow to change, institutional inertia and the unwillingness of policymakers to do the right thing - quite literally a deadly combination. On this week's Cen... Read more

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Ep 64

Airs at: Sun, 05/17/2020 at 6:30am - Mon, 05/25/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Fortress On A Hill
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, legendary activist and author of An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, stop by the podcast to discuss her journey to studying and writing about indigenous history, how COVID-19 is impacting Native American communities, and her experience... Read more

Protecting nursing home residents from the COVID-19 pandemic with AARP Oregon's Ruby Haughton-Pitts

Airs at: Wed, 05/13/2020 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected us all – our own physical and mental health, our finances, our work and social life, and the well-being of our friends and family. As of this week, Oregon reported over 3000 confirmed and presumed cases of the virus, raising the death toll... Read more

Ep 107. It Takes A Village To Wear Bivy Park

Airs at: Fri, 05/01/2020 at 12:15pm - Sun, 05/31/2020 at 1:15pm
Produced for:  Village Vibes Podcast
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Covid Power Struggle in South Dakota, with co-host Jacqueline Keeler

Airs at: Wed, 05/13/2020 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Four years after the Dakota Access Pipeline struggle burst on the scene in North Dakota, another major fight over indigenous sovereignty has broken out in South Dakota, with Trump-supporting Governor Kristi Noem threatening legal action against the Cheyenne River and ... Read more

Hemp, Human Rights, and the Drug War

Airs at: Wed, 05/13/2020 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century: part two of our conversation with Doug Fine, the farmer, hemp activist, journalist, and author whose new book American Hemp Farmer has just been released by Chelsea Green Publishing; plus we hear from Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project at ... Read more