National Radio Project

Nationally, American prisons release more than 650,000 people into society every year. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Boston. 

On this edition, producer Aaron Mendelson followed ex-prisoner Kevin Tindall on his journey out of prison.

Special thanks to Claire Schoen and the University of California Berkeley, School of Journalism.

Featuring:   

• Gordon Brown, ex-prisoner
• Monta Kevin Tindall, ex-prisoner
• Jerry Elster, ex-prisoner
• Tom Gorham, Program Director Options Recovery Services
• Barry Krisberg, Director of Research and Policy and Lecturer in Residence at Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, UC Berkeley
• Debra Mendoza, former parole officer, consultant

On last week’s show we brought you to Idaho and Montana, where hundreds of trucks were routed to haul gigantic mining equipment to the Tar Sands oil fields of Alberta Canada, but an alliance of citizens and community groups was able to block the transport through environmentally sensitive land.

This week we continue the saga of the megaloads heading to the Tar Sands through the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies. We also follow two more tendrils of the Tar Sands project stretching from Alberta to the coast of British Columbia.

This is the second of a two part special, on the growing resistance to the tar sands, produced by Barbara Bernstein.

Listen the the first part here.

Featuring:

• Kevin Lewis, Idaho Rivers United conservation director
• Linwood Laughy, writer & historian
• Borg Hendrickson, Clearwater Country co-author
• Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent author
• Bob Skinner, Canada School of Energy and the Environment interim director
• Annick Smith, A River Runs Through It co-producer
• Bob Gentry, environmental attorney
• Steven Hawley, Recovering a Lost River author
• David James Duncan, The Heart of the Monster co-author
• Zack Porter, All Against The Haul executive director
• Steve Seninger, University of Montana economist
• Spider McKnight, All Against the Haul communications specialist

The Canadian Tar Sands is the largest industrial project on earth. And the potential environmental consequences have brought together citizens from across borders, to fight its rippling effects.

This is the first of a two part special, on the growing resistance to the tarsands, produces by Barbara Bernstein.

Featuring:

• Kevin Lewis, Idaho Rivers United conservation director
• Linwood Laughy, writer & historian
• Borg Hendrickson, Clearwater Country co-author
• Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent author
• Bob Skinner, Canada School of Energy and the Environment interim director
• Annick Smith, A River Runs Through It co-producer
• Bob Gentry, environmental attorney
• Steven Hawley, Recovering a Lost River author
• David James Duncan, The Heart of the Monster co-author
• Zack Porter, All Against The Haul executive director
• Steve Seninger, University of Montana economist
• Spider McKnight, All Against the Haul communications specialist

Natural healing can take many forms.  These days, the Latin American “curandera” is re-emerging in the US, after generations of going underground.

On this edition, producer Erica Hellerstein takes us on a journey to identity through an ancient medicinal practice.

Featuring:   

• Lauren Villa, UC Berkeley Graduate Student
• Atava Swiecicki Garcia Healer
• Sandra Pacheco, Healer and Professor of Chicana Latina Indigenous Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies
• Patricia Torres, owner of Mystical Collections
• Anna, Psychotherapist and Sol Collective Member
• Lauren Villa’s father

We profile women fighting the expansion of global militarism and violence. Korean sister Stella Soh campaigns to save an UNESCO world heritage site from a planned military base.

US activist Kathy Kelly founded Voices for Creative Nonviolence. And Brazilian Miriam Nobre works with the World March of Women.

Featuring:   

• Sister Stella Soh, Catholic Nun and activist with Save Jeju Island
• Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence co-coordinator
• Miriam Nobre, Coordinator Of The International Secretariat Of The World March Of Women