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Jill Fritz, Humane Society: Wildlife Killing Contests

Airs at: Thu, 12/22/2022 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  On Friday December 16th, the governor-appointed Fish and Wildlife Commission, which oversees the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, met and directed the agency to develop new rules banning organized competitions in which coyotes are hunted for cash or prizes.  Stat... Read more

Reformist DA Impeached

Airs at: Mon, 12/12/2022 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Host Karen James speaks with Miriam Krinsky, Executive Director of Fair and Just Prosecution. FJP brings together elected local prosecutors as part of a network of leaders committed to promoting a justice system grounded in fairness, equity, compassion, and fiscal responsib... Read more

Policy For The People

Airs at: Fri, 12/09/2022 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Policy For The People
  Our show examines how public policy choices designed to benefit the few got us into our current, inequitable reality. And it explores different public policy choices that can take us in a new direction, toward an Oregon where everyone — white, Black, and brown — enjoys e... Read more

Leonard Peltier: Walk to Justice --- Murder-Cartel-State of Indigenous Peoples in Southern Mexico

Airs at: Fri, 12/02/2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  American Indian Airwaves
  Part: 1 The Leonard Peltier Walk to Justice, organized by the American Indian Movements Grand Governing Council (AIMGGC), began on September 1st, 2022, from Minneapolis, and concluded 1,100 miles later, on November 13th, 2022, in Washington D.C. with approximately 2,000 ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 5, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 12/05/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Grad Students on Strike: Grad student teachers, researchers, teaching assistants, and more, 48,000 of them, are now on strike across the University of California system. It’s the large... Read more

Confessions of the Fox

Airs at: Mon, 12/05/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel recommends the novel Confessions of the Fox (2018) by Jordy Rosenberg, a genre-bending work of radical speculative history from below, telling the story of the real 18th-century thief,  jailbreaker, and folk hero Jack Sheppard, reimagined here as a trans man al... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 28, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 11/28/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Midterms are Over; Now what? We dodged a bullet in 2022 mid-year election, with the Democrats strengthening their control of the Senate and narrowly losing the House of Repr... Read more

Prisoners’ Rights

Airs at: Mon, 11/28/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken interviews Jacob Reisberg, ACLU attorney, on safety and health conditions in US jails. Reisberg spearheaded a federal lawsuit last year against the Orange County sheriff to force him and the county to reduce the jail's population to better implement social distan... Read more

Gun Control: Facts v Beliefs

Airs at: Mon, 11/21/2022 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Political debates may be influenced by facts but they’re decided by beliefs. Gun control is a prime example of this truism. On this edition of Prison Pipeline we hear from Deborah Azrael, PhD, director of research at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and Joseph Si... Read more

Health Care Standards for Oregon Jails

Airs at: Mon, 11/14/2022 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Host Karen James speaks with Bridget Budbill, Senior Operations and Policy Analyst with the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission. HB3229, passed by the Oregon legislature in 2021, directed the CJC to convene an advisory council to develop recommendations for minimum standards... Read more