Civil Rights/Human Rights

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Radiozine on 06/26/19

Airs at: Wed, 06/26/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Host Jenna Yokoyama talks to Prof. Karina Moreno about the inhumane treatment of migrant children at detention centers. Prof Moreno is an associate professor at Hunter College's Department of Urban Studies at the City Universty of New York.She is a native of Monterrey, N... Read more

Buscando America on 06/25/19

Airs at: Tue, 06/25/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En este programa conoce el trabajo poético de Sayak Valencia teórica queer fronteriza y performer feminista. Diana Torres “Pornoterrorista” lee su poema Transfronteras. En el marco del Día Internacional de la ONU en apoyo a las víctimas de la tortura, Krónicas de Viaje expo... Read more

The Push and Pull of Immigration

Airs at: Mon, 06/24/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Left and the Law commentator Mike Snedecker interviews Jim Smith, an immigration lawyer who lives and practices at the border. Using the example of Honduras, they discuss the “push” factors (poverty, violence and political repression) that impel immigrants to leave their ho... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 24, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 06/24/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts today's show which includes: Forest Health and Climate Change: An interview with Brenna Bell, forest protector and Policy Director and Attorney for Bark. Socialism or Barbarism: A reading from an essay by Rosa Luxemburg. The Things We Don’t Say: A review o... Read more

Toward the Abolition of Incarceration

Airs at: Tue, 06/25/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The U.S. is Number One. America is first in the world in having 2.3 million people behind bars. They are held in state prisons, federal prisons, county jails, juvenile correctional facilities and other lockups. The prison industrial complex costs state and federal govern... Read more

Up With Riders!

Airs at: Mon, 06/24/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
OPAL Enviromental Justice Oregon has a new campaign to stop fare hikes and win expansion of fareless, decriminalized public transportation. This campaign no longer accepts that transportation must be a private, for-profit system that excludes and criminalizes our communitie... Read more

Detention in Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Airs at: Fri, 06/21/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
On this episode of Pacific Underground, Producer Sara is joined by fellow Japanese-Americans Jenna Yokoyama and Chisao Hata for an intergenerational discussion on the recent decision from the Trump Administration to incarcerate migrant children at the Fort Sill base in Okla... Read more

Education In and Outside of Prison

Airs at: Mon, 06/17/2019 at 1:00am - 2:00am
  Suzanne LaGrande interviews Chris Wilson, author of The Master Plan, an inspiring memoir of a man sentenced to life in prison, who decided to create a new future for himself.   Growing up in a tough Washington, D.C., neighborhood, Chris Wilson was so afraid for his life ... Read more

Juneteenth Special

Airs at: Wed, 06/19/2019 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
June 19 is Juneteenth. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia recognize Juneteenth as a holiday or a holiday observance. Since this edition of Free Culture Radio is being recorded on and will be broadcast on June 19, we make a technical departure from our usual cove... Read more

Hari Jones on Juneteenth

Airs at: Wed, 06/19/2019 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century, historian and author Hari Jones speaks about Juneteenth, and the California State Assembly approves a measure to allow San Francisco to set up a supervised consumption facility. Read more