Civil Rights/Human Rights

Joseph T. Reiff, Born of Conviction

Airs at: Sun, 05/22/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

On September 29th, 1962, Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett spoke before a halftime crowd at a University of Mississippi football game. He said he loved Mississippi's heritage. This compelled him to personally block African-American James Meredith from enrolling at Ole Mi... Read more

A Shared Sentence: Children of Prisoners

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Karen James interviews Laura Speer, associate director for Policy Reform Advocacy at the Annie E Casey Foundation, the nation’s leading organization for the overall well-being of children. Over 5 million children nationwide have had an incarcerated parent. The loss of a par... Read more

Century Of Lies for May 22 2016

Airs at: Sun, 05/22/2016 at 12:00am - 12:30am

Produced for: Century Of Lies

This week: we speak with author and journalist Maia Szalavitz about addiction, overdose, and her new book Unbroken Brain; plus we talk about criminal justice with death row DNA exoneree Kirk Bloodsworth. Read more

Dan Barker, God the Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction

Airs at: Sun, 05/08/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

America’s leading atheist, the co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and co-host of Freethought Radio, Dan Barker, talks about his latest book, God the Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction (audiobook) The roots of the book go to Richard Dawkins’ famous... Read more

The Struggle Inside & Out: Supporting Prisoner Strikes

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Adam Carpinelli will interview activist Ben Turk. A long term activist supporting all prisoners including Political Prisoners, Turk is connected to several different movements and organizations working around national prisoner strikes. We will discuss the upcoming Septemb... Read more

The World is Churning

Airs at: Fri, 05/13/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Positively Revolting

Join us for the second part of our in depth conversation with renowned storyteller, author and scholar of mythology, anthropology and phsycology, Michael Meade. Some of his books include Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Soul and Why the World Doesn't End, ... Read more

John Loftus, How to Defend the Christian Faith: Advice from An Atheist

Airs at: Sun, 05/01/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

John Loftus was an evangelical minister. He has several degrees in Christian apologetics. He pastored churches and taught at Christian colleges. Then he left it all. He has written a dozen books with titles such as Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Ch... Read more

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 04/28/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: The Film Show

In this extended version of our interview with attorney turned filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, Jenn Chavez asks Mr Wiseman about the subjects that inspire him, his detached style of filmmaking, and his success in producing and distributing films outside the studio system. ... Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE salutes ORNETTE COLEMAN tonight at 8pm

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Produced for: A Different Nature

Join the A DIFFERENT NATURE Collective tonight for a kind of radio primer on Ornette Coleman, as some of us share what recordings we still have of his most pivotal and radical music from our collections and reflect on the life and turbulent times of one of modern music's mo... Read more

Century Of Lies for May 1, 2016

Airs at: Sun, 05/01/2016 at 12:00am - 12:30am

Produced for: Century Of Lies

This week: more from the recent UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs, the UNGASS. We speak with Adam Eidinger with DC Marijuana Justice; author, journalist, and hemp advocate Doug Fine; and radical journalist and drug policy reformer Enrico Fletzer. Read more