The criminal justice system separately the victim and the offender. The state assumes the interests of the victim, thereby not allowing the victim a seat at the table except as victim. And for the offender, the state never asks that he/she admit fault and responsibility for the harms done. Restorative justice seeks to make the victim an active part in addressing the harm and encourages the offender to accept their responsibility for the harms caused by their actions.

Host David Delk interviews Laura Stevens with the Sierra Clubs campaign to stop using coal and opposing the building of coal export terminals in Oregon and Washington.

Gerry Pollet, Exec Director of Heart of America NW, the chief watchdog organization for clean up of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, talks about the status of clean-up, plans to designate Hanford as a national nuclear waste dump, and the likelihood that the Washington State Dept of Ecology could put an end to those plans via the state permitting process.

Laurie King, Chair of the Economic Crisis Committee of Portland Jobs with Justice, discusses the 'sea that we swim in. That sea is not a recovery for workers even as the top 1% and especially the top one-tenth of 1% have done very well. With the wealth and income flowing up, they need to invest in order to increase employment but it is not in their interest to do so. Laurie discusses the Republican and Democratic budget proposals and contrasts them with the proposal from the Congressional...

Host David Delk talks with anti-nuclear activist Lloyd Marbet on the connections between the nuclear melt-down at Fukushima and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland WA. Raises issues with the speed of the clean-up at Hanford, raises prospect that Hanford likely will be designated the national nuclear waste dump site since Yucca Mountain was eliminated as the site.

Host David Delk talks with Ted Gleichman, chair of the Oregon Sierra Club's LNG committee. We begin the discussion with comment on Oregonian for Renewable Energy Policy which advocates for good green jobs via the development of a feed-in tariff policy. Very successful in Germany, Spain and Ontario Canada. We discuss the dirty fussil fuels like 'clean' natural gas, oil from the tar sands of Alberta and their possible transport to Texas for export to world markets. We talk about possible...

Host David Delk talks with Jim Houser, co-founder of the Main Street Alliance and Lee Mercer, director of the Main Street Alliance, on the need for a real voice for Main Street America as opposed to such organizations as the US Chamber of Commerce, which claims to be the voice of America's small business community. Talk moves to cover changes to healthcare in both the US and in Oregon. Changes in Oregon include the developing Health Care Exchanges. Lee touches on Citizens United and the role...

Host David Delk interviews Jennifer Schuberth and Marcia Klotz, co-founders of CORE: Calling Oregon to Reinvest in Education. Topic covered include the difference between Fixed Term, Adjunct and Tenure Track professors, trends in higher education like the lowered amounts of state funding, the increase in the number of 'temp' professors, the threats of privatization of higher education like the Western Governors University, the effect of 'temp' professors on the learning experience and more....

The history of Populists in America

Jules Boykoff chairs the Dept of Politics & Government at Pacific University. Today we discuss the frames used by media to talk about the Global Justice Movement, specifically the movement in Seattle, 1999 with the WTO protest vs the Tea Party. We also talk about the framing using thus far with Occupy Wall Street/Portland.

Host David Delk interviews Rick Staggenborg, board director of Take Back America for the People, about corporate personhood. Rick ran against US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) with his main issue being corporate personhood. Talks about what corporate personhood is, amending the US Constitution, getting pledges from those running for US House or Senate to support amending the Constitution to eliminate corporate personhood.

Oregon organic farmer Scott Frost explores the present status of small family farmers in America today. Looks at the economic crisis and farming, at the lack of credit extension, on the US Farm Bill and the effect of large corporate stores like Wal Mart when they expand their sales of organics.

Judy Barnes, the co-founder of Oregonians for Renewable Energy Policy, advocates for Feed-In Tariffs (FIT). FITs is how Germany became the leader in renewable energy production while creating a huge new job pool. Judy advocates for the policy in Oregon and the United States, describes how it started in Germany, has been adopted in Ottawa and is now spreading to the United States with Rhode Island being the latest state to adopt the program. Learn the benefits for the environment and the economy.

Host David Delk talks with the two founders of Oregon - Save Our Schools, a new grassroots parent/teacher alliance setting as its mission to raise the voices to stop the corporatization and privatization of our public school system. Stand For Children has a corporate agenda of expanding charter schools. They see a corporate strategy of divide and conquer - parents against teachers. Discusses problem of No Child Left Behind, with testing and the use of testing to be the basis for making school...

Barbara Dudley, founder of the Oregon Working Families Party, discusses how to focus working people onto economic issues and overcome the social issues which divide them. Looks at the reasons for founding the party, the role of Fusion Voting in development of party, and main issues party has focused on (state bank, opposition to free trade agreements, and disability fund for everyone). Goes on to talk about possible program to ban export of waste paper from Oregon in order to promote job...

The development of the Tar Sands in Alberta will give us little room to develop clean energy sources and will prevent us from addressing the climate crisis. Join Trip Jennings and Bonnie McFinley as we talk about what the dangers of tar sands development are, and efforts to stop that development including the largest acts of civil disobedience in Wash DC involving the environment.

Laurie King with the Economic Crisis Committee, Jobs with Justice Portland, talks about the effects of the economic crisis and the origins of the Occupy Wall Street in that crisis. Discusses the unemployed, underemployed, the U6 rate, need for bold restructuring of economy, future actions. Looks at federal legislation to create an economy that works for the other 99% of the American people.

Nate Gulley is legislative coordinator with OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon. In this interview we talk about environmental racism and justice and equity issues surrounding public transit as manifested in the Portland OR public transit system, TriMet. With a 70% cut in service during the past 10 years while the price of a fare continues to increase at least yearly, there is a question of equity. Examines how increase in capital expenditures for light rail and street cars have undermined bus...

David Delk interviews Marty Hart-Landsberg, professor of Economics at Lewis & Clark College and director of their Political Economics Program on the origins of the economic crises, the proposed solutions and why those will fail. Also, covers what We The People need to do to create a new world.

Robin Morris Collin and Robert William Collin address issues of environmental justice and equity. Robin is a professor of law at Willamette University College of Law and Robert is Senior Researcher at the Willamette University Center for Sustainable Comunities. Issues covered include how to define sustainability as well as equity, talk about inter-generational responsibility, and who benefits and who is harmed with environmental decisions.

Laura Stevens with the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign explains the reasons for the campaign, talks about its successes, efforts to stop PGE's Boardman plant from using coal, the efforts of multinational corporations to site coal export terminals on the Columbia River towns of Longview and St. Helens. We talk about the environmental consequences of coal use.