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Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It

Airs at: Mon, 03/01/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Madness Radio
Hosted by Will Hall The US incarcerates more people than any country in the world - and 70% are people of color. Do we need better mental health care inside prisons -- or do prisons themselves cause trauma and madness?Psychiatrist and civil lawsuit expert witness Dr.Terry K... Read more

The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law: Interview Jonathan Hafetz

Airs at: Thu, 02/25/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for A Deeper Look
Jonathan Hafetz of The National Security Project of the ACLU joins host Llinda Olson-Osterlund to talk about the new book  he co-edited, The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law. This book has the voices of over a hundred attorneys from all types of practice... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 02/25/10

Airs at: Thu, 02/25/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
On January 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme court took another step in the long - and many say misguided - journey to granting corporations personhood under the U.S. Constitution. In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a five-member majority of the court increased the... Read more

Political Perspectives on 02/24/10

Airs at: Wed, 02/24/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for Political Perspectives
Oregon lawyer Lauren Regan speaks on "One Struggle, One Fight: Intergenerational Political Prisoners." This talk was recorded this past Friday at Reed College as part of a panel discussion. CD-1661 Read more

Voices from the Edge on 02/18/10

Airs at: Thu, 02/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
  What's next in the Aaron Campbell case? Also, an interview with Oregon Attorney General John Kroger   Tuesday night, Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke to over 1,000 Portlanders at Maranantha Church about the "execution" of Aaron Campbell, the most recent victim of a police shoo... Read more

Signs of Change

Airs at: Wed, 02/17/2010 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Circle A Radio
Tonight on Circle A Radio, we’ll take you on an audio tour through the art exhibition: Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now.  Hundreds of posters, photographs, video, and audio representing more than forty years of activism, political protest, and social  j... Read more

Will Aaron Campbell's death finally bring police accountability to Portland?

Airs at: Thu, 02/11/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
  Will Aaron Campbell's death finally bring police accountability to Portland?   A Multnomah County grand jury this week found no criminal wrongdoing by Portland police officer Ronald Frashour in the Jan. 28 fatal shooting of Aaron Campbell. The death of an unarmed young ... Read more

Curtis Lofton Interview

Airs at: Mon, 02/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Prison Pipeline
After serving 15 years, Curtis Lofton talked to us from Texas to tell us how he’s doing.  Curtis, an African American is unemployed. He didn’t learn a skill or get additional education while incarcerated, however he is clean and dry, optimistic and has a positive attitude. ... Read more

Oscar Wilde

Airs at: Wed, 02/10/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for The Underground
the Youth Collective Topic this month was the wild, and so Arthur brings us  a profile on writer Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, born 16 October 1854 and die 30 November 1900. Read more

Remembering Howard Zinn

Airs at: Mon, 02/08/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Practicing history from below: that was the work of the late Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States. Here Tom Becker describes that approach to history, in contrast to traditional ways of telling stories from the perspective of ruling classes.  Tom q... Read more