#1216 Taking a closer look at Columbus Day (Native Peoples Series Part 1)
Air Date: 10–5-2018
Today we take a look at the rarely-told, real legacy of Christopher Columbus and some of the reverberations from his actions that can still be felt to this day
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#1198.5 Decolonization, Reconciliation and The Sacred Mountain - Presenting: Offshore
Air Date: 7–27-2018
Today I do something a little different and present to you (with permission) the entire first episode of the second season of the outstanding podcast, Offshore. Offshore is produced by Honolulu Civil Beat, a nonprofit and non-partisan investigative news site in Hawaii and I especially think the BotL audience will appreciate their telling of the story of the mountain protectors of Mauna Kea, The Sacred Mountain, on the big island of Hawaii.
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#1159 Voters need to pick their reps, not the other way around (Gerrymandering)
#1145 A government small enough to get inside your body (Reproductive Justice)
#1124 Searching for a problem to implement a terrible solution (Voting Rights)
Air Date: 8-4-2017
Today we revisit the old idea that if voting mattered they wouldn’t let you do it and the fact that that is exactly what they’re trying to do. Between allowing the chaos and uncertainty caused by hackable and unverifiable voting machines and systematic voter suppression efforts it seems clear just how much they don’t want people to trust or participate in the system
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#1118 A look in at the TERF wars (Feminism and Trans Rights)
#1106 If you can’t beat them, suppress them (Voting Rights)
#1041 The other pro-choice movement (Death with Dignity)
Air Date: 09-06-2016
Today we take a look at matters of life, death and the right to choose when to move from one to the other
Read more#1023 What drives hateful violence (Orlando Massacre)
Air Date: 06-21-2016
Today we take a look at the myriad driving factors that can combine to drive a person to commit an act of violence such as the Orlando Massacre as well as a variety of reactions to the shooting
Read more#1020 The damage we’re doing (Anti-Trans Legislation)
Air Date: 06-10-2016
Today we take a look at the ongoing struggle to secure civil rights equality for trans people in states that are determined to stoke bigotry based on ignorance and fear
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