Civil Liberties

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Dan Handelman from Copwatch on Portland Police Accountability

Airs at: Wed, 03/03/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
With a spate of police violence incidents hitting the headlines, the Independent Police Review Division is soon to come under a microscope for how it investigates complaints against Portland law enforcement.  Portland Copwatch  and  Peace and Justice Works volunteer Dan Han... Read more

Political Perspectives on 2/10/10

Airs at: Wed, 02/10/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
In part one of the Feb 10, 2010 Political Perspectives, Michelle Schroeder Fletcher interviews blogger Brad Friedman of the Brad Blog about the case of rightwing activist James O'Keefe, his federal felony arrest late last month, and his infamous secretly taped video intervi... Read more

Some Principles of Indigenous Law and Critical Thinking for Conflict Resolution

Some Principles of Critical Thinking: http://wwwthesixthestate.blogspot.com/2009/09/on-critical-thinking-separating-pepper.htmlSaturday, November 10, 2007 Aboriginal Justice Sunday, November 14, 2004Aboriginal Justice [Residential Schools] Aboriginal Justicewritten by Jam... 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

Vancuover Olympics and Civil Liberties

Airs at: Fri, 02/12/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The Winter Olympics are set to begin in British Columbia, Canada this weekend and one group hopes to reveal significant civil liberties issues behind the winter games. Protesters with the Olympic Resistance Network point to a number of new laws enacted just for the Olympi... Read more

Chiquita Pleads Guilty to Terrorist Support

Airs at: Mon, 02/08/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
A civil lawsuit recently brought to court in Florida, is holding Chiquita Brands International guilty of terrorism because of their financial support of FARC, also known as Fuerzas (Fwer-sas) Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia. Read more

Department of Justice's Recent Report on Torture and Other War Crimes

Airs at: Tue, 02/23/2010 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor Americans don't torture. No, they call it something else. And then they get away with it.  A deeply disappointing Department of Justice report reduces the war crimes of the Bush administration to an error of legal judgment. Sorry about the torture! Sh... Read more

February 22, 2010 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 This edition of the Old Mole Variety Hour is hosted by Denise Morris.  It deals with making energy locally, the racial,  gender and class politics of the Southern plantation household, Alice Munro's latest book, a novel by Nobel Prize winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, an... Read more