Civil Rights/Human Rights

Right to Health focuses on racism as a public health issue

Airs at: Wed, 03/28/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Recovery Zone

Leslie Gregory has been working to bring attention to racism as a national, public health crisis. As the founder of the non-profit Right to Health US, she has challenged the Center for Disease Control to declare racism a public health threat, including this petition at Mov... Read more

The Culture of Punishment

Airs at: Wed, 03/21/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Free Culture Radio

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Pushing Back Against the Culture of Punishment. The White House is pushing for a renewed war on drugs. The attorney general, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III – yes, that’s his real name – issued a memo to all US Attorneys on March Tw... Read more

Buscando America on 03/20/18

Airs at: Tue, 03/20/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Produced for: Buscando America

En este programa hablamos con Eduardo Corona para conocer detalles sobre lo que los mexicanos pueden hacer para participar en las próximas elecciones presidenciales del 1 de julio. Además, en cabina Roy Antonio Arauz y la actriz Nelda Reyes nos invitan a ver la obra The ... Read more

Can You See the White? (Part 2)

Airs at: Fri, 03/23/2018 at 10:00am - 10:15am

Produced for: Valley Views

Faith is a white woman who reflects on personal and societal events that shaped her life’s journey to racial justice and equity awareness. I asked Faith to be on the show because she and I have had many conversations about race that may be inspiring to listeners. I admire... Read more

Fascism Exported to the Caribbean and Africa

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

On this show, our first 2018 episode of The F-Word, when we talk about fascism. Professor Margaret Stevens, author of the new book 'Red International and Black Caribbean' joins us for a discussion that you don't want to miss. And one million students marching around the ... Read more

Knowledge is Power: Outsmarting the Prison Industrial Complex

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Adam Carpinelli interviews Dr. Peter Bohmer, a long time activist and professor of political economy at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Bohmer has been fighting for civil and human rights since the 60's and has a been a target of near fatal state repres... Read more

From Mercenaries to Marijuana

Airs at: Sun, 03/18/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am

Produced for: Century Of Lies

This week we look at human rights and the drug war and hear from Maricela Orozco, a member of the Familiares en Búsqueda María Herrera collective, a group of family members of the disappeared organized in several states across Mexico; plus we take a look at the new owner of... Read more

I Will Not Fear: Melba Beals of the LittleRock Nine

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

In 1957, Melba Patillo Beals, was one of nine African-American high school students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. She became a journalist, professor, author, and at the age of 52 adopted twin sons. In her book, I Will Not Fear: My Stor... Read more

Maru vs. ICE

Airs at: Wed, 03/14/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

Maru Mora and Andrea Williams join Linda Olson-Osterlund to discuss the struggles of those who are facing deportation under Trump's regime. At the end of December, immigrant activist Maru Mora Villalpando received a letter from ICE putting her in deportation proceedings.... Read more

Guardians of the Amazon Rainforest

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Currently the indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest are in a struggle with worldwide multinational corporations that want to take over their lands for oil extraction, commercial palm oil, commercial agriculture, mining, and other massively destructive enterprises. ... Read more