Women Rising Radio #30 profiles women fighting slavery, trafficking and forced labor globally.

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Credits

Other Staff:

Meerim Ilyas, Urgent Action Fund for Women

Umida Niyazova,  Journalist, Russia

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations

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Rapper and grassroots organizer Boots Riley’s recent book is titled “Tell Homeland Security: We Are the Bomb”. Riley appeared at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington DC, where he was interviewed by author and Edge of Sports blogger Dave Zirin.

Special thanks to Politics and Prose Bookstore & Coffeehouse

Featuring:

Boots Riley, “Tell Homeland Security: We Are the Bomb” author; Dave Zirin, “Edge of Sports” blogger

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Tell Homeland Security: We Are the Bomb by Boots Riley

Politics and Prose Bookstore & Coffeehouse

The Coup

Boots Riley on Twitter

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin on Twitter

#blacklivesmatter

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Nicole Rocke, former foster youth; Kyle Lafferty, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy: Linda Bryant, Clinical Professor at New York University’s School of Social Work; Benita Miller, Deputy Commissioner of Family Permanency Services at the Administration of Children’s Services; Lorraine Jacobs, caseworker; Yolanda Vasquez, former foster youth;  Adriane Fugh-Berman, Pharmacology Professor at Georgetown University’s Medical Center; Bill Grimm, Attorney at National Center for Youth Law; Susan Bullard; DAVID ARREDONDO, Child psychiatrist; Dr. Edmund Levin, at the Lincoln Child Center; Nancy Forster, Therapist at the Lincoln Child Center; April Rene Sanders, former foster youth and recipient of AB12; Kyle Sporleader, Statewide Legislative Coordinator for California Youth Connection (CYC).

Music:

Drugging Our Kids – Full documentary:

http://webspecial.mercurynews.com/druggedkids/

California Youth Connection

Chapin Hill at the University of Chicago:

Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth

Chapin Hill at the University of Chicago:

Findings from the California Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study (CalYOUTH)

National Conference of State Legislatures:

Extending Foster Care Beyond 18

California Fostering Connections to Success: Resource page

California Department of Social Services:

California Fostering Connections to Success Act (AB12) Extending Foster Care Benefits Fact Sheet

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Tent cities have popped up across the country, from New Jersey to Texas to New Mexico.  Many are starting to build more permanent living structures. So what are the benefits of living in a cluster of tents? And is this part of a real solution to homelessness?

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Special edition of Making Contact with guest Host, Rose Aguilar discussing reproductive health and abortion rights 43 years after Roe v. Wade.

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Credits

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This is a special encore edition.

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th 1963, Martin Luther King Jr delivered one of the most famous speeches of all time. But it nearly didn’t happen. On this special edition of Making Contact for MLK Day, Gary Younge, author of The Speech talks about Martin Luther King Junior’s Dream and the story behind it.

Special thanks to the New School for use of their recording. 

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Gary Younge, author of The Speech: Martin Luther King Jr’s Dream and the Story Behind It

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Women Rising radio profiles food sovereignty activists from India, Mexico, and Native American communities.

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Robert Neuwirth, author of “Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World”, estimates that more than a billion people—that’s 1 in 7–are squatters.  This week, we visit squats in Venezuela and the Philippines. We find out why squatters aren’t just tolerated, but are crucial to the growth of major cities and national economies.

Featuring: 

Robert Neuwirth, author of “Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World”; Filomena Cinco, Barangay captain of Estero de San Miguel; Luz Sudueste, Urban Poor Associates organizer, William Gonzalez, Gladys Flores, Jacqueline Calderon and Yolimar Noriega, Toree David residents; Andres Antillano,Universidad Central de Venezuela professor & activist for squatters’ rights

Music:

Spectacled Cobra by Simon Mathewson

Night Creeper by Hellenica

Haven by Lee Rosevere

Pensacola Twilight by Lee Rosevere

Grand Caravan by Blue Dot Sessions

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Alicia Garza, Black Lives Matter co-founder; Cat Brooks, Anti Police Terror Project; Antonia Juhasz, Investigative Journalist; Thomas DarDar, United Houma Nation Chief; Mark Miller, Southern Utah University History professor; Sylvia Rivera, Remembering Stonewall oral history project; Michael Schirker, Remembering Stonewall oral history project; Aesha Rasheed, Southerners on New Ground.

Host: Jasmin Lopez

Producers: Laura Flynn, Andrew Stelzer, and Jasmin Lopez

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Web Editor: Kwan Booth

Music:

Ketsa: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/

Ryan Little: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ryan_Little/

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Who remembers the local beat cop, who lives in and really knows the community? Increasingly, police don’t live in the neighborhoods, or even the cities they patrol. But is that a problem? On this edition, should police be required to live in the cities they patrol? Law enforcement agencies around the country are struggling for answers to a question that’s about race, class and geography.

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Featuring Music by:

The Brain

http://huseyinthebrain.bandcamp.com/

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Ferguson crisis revives debate about residency requirements for police

Most Police Don’t Live In The Cities They Serve

The Thin White Line: Most Cops Don’t Look Like the Residents They Serve

Reexamining Residency Requirements For Police Officers

Residency Requirements: Sometimes a Litigation Issue, More Often a Legislative One

How to Handle Residency Requirements

The Residency Rebellion

Fraternal Order of Police

Using Municipal Residency Requirements to Disguise Pubic Policy

Residency Requirements: A Case of Politics Over Economics

Hagerstown considers incentives to draw police officers to live downtown

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says 53 percent of Detroit’s police force moved out of city after residency rule was lifted

MCCARTHY v. PHILADELPHIA CIVIL SERV. COMM’N

Life of the Law

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