With the ever increasing numbers of incarcerated, we need to discuss how we want the criminal justice system to work.Part of that discussion needs to be around one of the least accountable aspects of the system - the District Attorneys. Daniel Lewkow, campaign manager for the Oregon ACLU's :"They Report to You" campaign, talks about the DA's power and how we can make them accountable. DAs have a lot of power without a lot of oversight. We can change that.

Guest Anais Tuepker talks about the proposed Portland Just Energy Transition initiative petition for the City of Portland. Noting that environmental groups and communities of color have not in the past worked together, she says that this has been written by a collaboration between them. It would apply a 1% surcharge on the business license fee of national and multinational retail business with revenue of over $1 billion with the funds being used for retrofitting existing homes for energy efficiency on residential structures with a target of homes of communities of color, included multi-family buildings. Job training would also be focused on. And local food production could also be a target area.

We talk with Nakisha Nathan, Environmental Justice organizer with the Oregon Sierra Club. Just transitions and deep democracy are two aspects of environmental justice and we talk about their interrelationship. We also talk about the difference between the environmental movement historically and who benefited from it, and the environmental justice movement seeking to bring everyone to the table; the differences between the environmental movement and the environmental justice movement and how we need to get all the voices to the table so that those people who have been left out become part of the movement and benefit from it. And we talk about the difference between the extractive economy and the regenerative economy.

This is a series of weekly interviews between host David Delk and various guests working to end corporate domination and establishing true democracy.

The pushers of the economic trend of neo-liberal capitalism looked at NAFTA as a way to be cutting edge in their free'trade agreements...with the intention of radically transforming Mexico's economy." Russell Lum, Trade Justice Coordinator with Oregon Fair Trade Campaign talks about the contradictory reasons for NAFTA's enactment; how NAFTA has transformed the US and Mexico; and what "We the People" should demand of a re-negotiated NAFTA.