This week we talk with guest Sanho Tree, longtime drug policy reformer and
Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, about White House drug policy,
harm reduction, Kamala Harris, and Joe Biden.
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Today, on the Radio Activist, hosts Lisa Loving and Suzanne LaGrande will
interview Deputy Director Shannon Wight and Amy Davidson, Crime
Survivor Program Director from the Partnership for Safety and Justice. In the
second half of the hour, we'll be speaking with S. Renee...
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Sasha is a former KBOO news volunteer and program host, who left town to work
with the Transgender Law Center in Oakland. She now serves as a staff
attorney with Lambda Legal, and is host of the irregular Preference segment
"Tell Us About the Law, Sasha."
We're going to sp...
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Field Mole Desiree Hellegers brings excerpts from the January 16 townhall on
a proposal for Portland to once again withdraw from the Joint Terrorism Task
Force or JTTF. A vote will be held on the proposal this coming Wednesday at 2
p.m. at City Hall.
Background on the h...
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Adam Carpinelli will interview organizers from the Fighting Toxic Prisons
(FTP) Convergence. FTP is a collaboration with the Abolitionist Law
Center. FTP’s mission is to conduct grassroots organizing, advocacy and
direct action to challenge the prison system that is putti...
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This week, we feature two segments on the show: an interview with a Russian
anarchist about the recent ramping up of torture and repression by the FSB in
Russia against anarchists and anti-fascists (00:14:13); and a chat with
Patrick Strickland, author of "Alerta! Alerta!:...
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VVP is back and with a VERY SPECIAL guest that will have you seeing
~st*rs~ @chantidarling comes thru to the studio to discuss the pdx music
scene and his own career path which led to the boptastic RNB, Vol 1. If
you’re living under a rock and haven’t already, buy the albu...
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Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission--they're sick of the way
women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide
to start a Women's Rights Club. They post their work online--poems, essays,
videos of Chelsea performing her poetry, and...
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Tonight's episode of Talking Earth features writer and actress Reema Zaman.
She will read from her new memoir, I Am Yours, and discuss many of the
issues brought up by her life story: the silencing of women, particularly
women of color, and how they can heal. Patrick Boca...
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David Earl Miller was a prisoner on death row for 34 years until he was
executed on December 16th. Mary Nordkvelle and Jean Richardson are sisters
who had a uniquie 25 year relationship as Death Row visitors to Miller who
served more time on Death Row than he did in yea...
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