Civil Liberties

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Angela Davis.....Beginnings: Movements of Possibility

Airs at: Tue, 02/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  In times of crisis one can simultaneously see danger and opportunity. Today there is nostalgia for an imagined past and a desire to recreate it. It’s a seductive tale. Things were better then. The country was unchallenged in the world. Jobs were plentiful. Minorities, wo... Read more

Resurrecting the WPA, Universal Basic Income and Fighting Gentrification

Airs at: Thu, 02/16/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Arlene Goldbard heads up U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, a collective of artists and activists working to advance an agenda on the state and local level that includes Cultural Impact Studies (similar to Environmental Impact Studies) to help mitigate gentrification i... Read more

White Supremacy Watch

Airs at: Fri, 02/10/2017 at 7:30pm - 8:00pm
KBOO reporter Canaan Schlesinger assembles reports from activists working to expose rampant and systematic targetting of people of color within the the Oregon Department of Corrections. Strategic Threat Management (STM): military defense strategy, or jargon for racial oppre... Read more

Embedded & Arrested at Standing Rock

Airs at: Fri, 02/17/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Jenni Monet took to Medium.com and wrote: "The morning after I was bonded out of the Morton County jail, I took to Twitter and posted a detail that I only could have known from actually being on the inside. “#MniWiconi is inscribed everywhere,” I tweeted. And it’s true.... Read more

Exportation of Religious Homophobia to Africa

Airs at: Mon, 02/13/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  "Homosexuality is not new in Uganda nor on the African continent. Like everywhere, it has existed forever. Homophobia, however, is new. It didn’t start in Africa. It was strategically imported from the US, Europe and Middle East. The goal of the religious missionaries, w... Read more

Anarquismo, Insane Music for Insane People #19, Agog

Airs at: Fri, 02/10/2017 at 10:00pm - Sat, 02/11/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
Join us this Friday evening continuing our membership drive to listen to more Insane Music for Insane People from the Belgium Label Insane, as well as the recording Anarquismo, which includes pieces by the band Antorcha (Las Antorchas), and much more! Read more

Michelle Alexander: Race & Caste in the U.S.

Airs at: Fri, 02/10/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. As an associate professor of law at Stanford Law School, she directed the Civil Rights Clinics and pursued a research agenda focused on the intersection of race and criminal justic... Read more

Michael Eric Dyson in Portland with his Sermon for White America

Airs at: Fri, 02/10/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Michael Eric Dyson is an academic, author, and radio host. He is a professor of Sociology at Georgetown University.  Described by Michael A. Fletcher as "a Princeton Ph.D. and a child of the streets who takes pains never to separate the two", Dyson has authored or edited... Read more

Press**Watch

Airs at: Thu, 02/09/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
What's been happening in the world besides the machinations of the Cheetoh Fascist Gang?  Find out--and get ready to support one of our best answers to the MAGA plague.  Dedicated to the victims of the 2016 Bowling Green Massacre! Read more

Changing the System: Arun Gupta

Airs at: Tue, 02/07/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  With Donald Trump in the White House we may have entered a post-truth era. As Orwell wrote in his great essay “Looking Back on the Spanish War:” “If the Leader says of such and such an event, ‘It never happened’—well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are fi... Read more