Civil Rights/Human Rights

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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

The Well Read Red

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Today the Well-Read Red contrasts two essays about pandemics. Both draw on the same historical and literary sources, but derive utterly different conclusions from them. Our Well Read Red finds this fascinating and asks why Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author, an... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 11, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 05/11/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Today’s Old Mole is hosted by Norm Diamond. Norm starts things off with a personal credo about what the Mole stands for. The show continues with the following segments:   Another World Is Possible: With this segment we inaugurate a new feature. In the first installment, N... Read more

Rebecca Gordon and American Nuremberg - Ep 63

Airs at: Fri, 05/08/2020 at 6:30am - Wed, 05/13/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Fortress On A Hill
Rebecca Gordon, a TomDispatch regular and author of American Nuremberg: The Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post 9/11 War Crimes, stop by the podcast to discuss torture and moral injury in the post 9/11 world, her experiences in Nicaragua and South Africa, how past pre... Read more

Hannah Lillith Assadi and Achy Obejas on Take Us To A Better Place

Airs at: Thu, 05/07/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Hannah Lillith Assadi and Achy Obejas, contributors to the story anthology Take Us To A Better Place, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. You can download a free copy of the ebook at https://www.rwjf.org/fiction. Hannah Lillith Assadi... Read more

The Left and the Law

Airs at: Mon, 05/04/2020 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In their Left and the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker look at the picture that is emerging of the coronavirus spreading in jails and prisons in the US. They discuss the lawsuits and political actions taken by prisoners themselves to address the pandemic and the gr... Read more

Activists protest in favor of prisoner release during COVID-19 outbreak

Airs at: Fri, 05/01/2020 at 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  A caravan of cars in favor of releasing prisoners and detainees took over the streets outside Portland City Hall this afternoon. A coalition of activist groups used the socially-distanced protest to push state and local leaders to forcefully address the threat that coron... Read more