January 2016

January 7, 2016

City Paper: This Week and Reading of the Names of 2015 Homicide Victims

January 6, 2016 - Segment 4 - During our regular feature, City Paper This Week, we check-in on this week's issue with Karen Houppert, Editor-in-Chief of City Paper. We close the show with a reading of the names of Baltimore's victims of homicide in 2015.
January 7, 2016

Baltimore City Circuit Court Candidate: Todd Oppenheim

January 6, 2016 - Segment 3 - Today we talk with Todd Oppenheim, is a criminal defense attorney with the Office of Public Defender and is assigned to the Baltimore City Felony Trial Unit. Mr. Oppenheim has had many articles published on policy reform within the Baltimore City judicial system; he is also a candidate for judge in the Baltimore City Circuit Court.
January 7, 2016

President Obama’s Executive Action On Guns

January 6, 2016 - Segment 2 - Today we talk about President Obama's Executive Action today on gun control, with: Firmin DeBrabander, Professor of Philosophy at the Maryland Institute College of Art and author of Do Guns Make us Free: Democracy and the Armed Society.
January 7, 2016

Analyzing The Armed Occupation Of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

January 6, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with a look at the armed occupation of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Joining us will be Margaret Corvid, New Statesman blogger and a contributing editor of the New Left Wing Quarterly, Salvage; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, activist and author of "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States"; and Edward Wyckoff Williams, television producer and writer living in New York City.
January 7, 2016

The Fight For Ex-Offender Voting Rights in Maryland

January 5, 2016 - Segment 1 - We discuss one of the topics that will be covered in the Maryland General Assembly during the 2016 Legislative Session: Ex-Offender Voting Rights in Maryland.
January 4, 2016

News Roundtable: Bill Cosby, Verdict in Tamir Rice Police Killing & Baltimore Murder Rates

January 4, 2016 - Hour 1 - We host a News Roundtable where we will discuss topics such as the murder rates in Baltimore, the decision not to indict the officer involved in the killing of Tamir Rice, and the numerous allegations towards Bill Cosby of sexual assault and misconduct. With guests: Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, Retired Major Neill Franklin, and Jackie Wellfonder.
January 2, 2016

Firebrand Records: A Radical Record Label

January 1, 2016 - Segment 3 - Independent producer Ira Gewanter brings us an interview with Ryan Harvey and Son of Nun of Firebrand Records, a record label formed by Harvey and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, with the aim to release social justice-oriented music.
January 1, 2016

Sound Bites: Building a Model for Food and Jobs in Sandtown-Winchester

December 31, 2015 - Segment 2 - On this week’s Sound Bites, we bring you the first part of our Good Food Gathering town hall meeting, titled Sandtown: Building a Model for Food and Jobs. The town hall took place at Jubilee Arts, located in the Sandtown Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, which was at the center of the Baltimore Uprising.