PRISONS & PRISONERS

  • Bill of Rights week: prisons (Episode 4 of 6)

    This is the fourth episode in the Bill of Rights Week series, derived from PZ0047 Bill of Rights Radio Education Project. The topic of this episode is prisons and the Eighth Amendment. Guests include Ruth Rushen and Al Bronstein. Executive producer is Adi Gevins, with assistance from David Rapkin.

  • Democracy Now! June 13, 2003

    Hour 1: Democracy Now! Airs Excerpts from the The Panama Deception an Academy Award-Winning Documentary Which Tells the Story of the December 1989 U.S. Invasion of Panama. The documentary uncovers the hidden reasons for this internationally condemned attack and provides a devastating critique of the mainstream media and its complicity with the official government line.…

  • Democracy Now! June 13, 2003

    Senate Finance Committee OKs Senior Prescription Drug Bill. Senior groups say the bill aids pharmaceutical industry without adequately covering seniors; Is Depleted Uranium Creating a New Nuclear Danger in Iraq? A debate on DU between Nuclear Policy Research Institute President Helen Caldicott, radiation physicist Geoffrey Sea and Dr. Thomas Fasy; Former Puerto Rican Political Prisoner…

  • Democracy Now! April 9, 2003

    Looting breaks out near Baghdad as the presence of the Iraqi government diminishes: We talk to AFP reporter Ezzadin Said in the Palestine Hotel; 80 dissidents arrested in Cuba in most widespread political crackdown since the 1960s: A debate between the Cuban embassy and the wife of a jailed journalist. Hour 2: CIA reports INC…

  • Democracy Now! May 9, 2003

    Hour 1: Cop takes midnight photos of pacifist teacher s classroom, then Rush Limbaugh posts them on his website; President Bush may invoke executive privilege to keep 911 documents away from Congressional investigators: We ll talk to a man who lost his wife in the attacks and is preparing to sue the White House; Wounded…

  • Democracy Now! May 9, 2003

    Is it to protect mothers, or undermine Roe v. Wade? As Mother’s Day approaches, we’ll hear about one of the latest bills Republicans have introduced; Mothers in Prison: 2 million children in the US have a parent in jail; we’ll hear children reading their Mother’s Day Cards to their moms in prison; Mothers As Activists:…

  • Democracy Now! October 22, 2002

    Iraq Journal: Saddam Hussein empties the nation s prisons. Jeremy Scahill and Jacquie Soohen report from inside Abu Ghraib, Iraq s most notorious prison; Power Politics: Arundhati Roy speaks out on Iraq, U.S. foreign policy, Palestine & corporate globalization |!! NO SALES !! 9:00-9:01 Billboard 9:01-9:06: Headlines 9:06-9:06 One Minute Music Break 9:07-9:12: Sunday’s announcement…

  • Democracy Now! April 9, 2003

    Looting breaks out near Baghdad as the presence of the Iraqi government diminishes: We talk to AFP reporter Ezzadin Said in the Palestine Hotel; 80 dissidents arrested in Cuba in most widespread political crackdown since the 1960s: A debate between the Cuban embassy and the wife of a jailed journalist. |Story: LOOTING BREAKS OUT NEAR…

  • Democracy Now! August 28, 2002

    YOUNG PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE JUVENILE DEATH PENALTY/A DATABASE OF POTENTIAL CRIMINALS |24-year-old Toronto Patterson is set to die today at the hands of the State of Texas for a crime he is accused of committing when he was 17: we ll hear his story in his own words, and talk to the young people…

  • Democracy Now! April 24, 2002

    Thomas Concannon has been sentenced to die. He has done nothing wrong, he has committed no crime. He simply got sick under the wrong insurance plan. Today, from one death row to another: today is the birthday of Mumia Abu-Jamal. He has been on death row for twenty-one years. |9:01-9:06 Headlines: 9:06-9:07 One Minute Music…