Gravity FM
59 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDiscussing human rights and environmental issues from the legal, political and ethical fronts with interviews from activists, NGOs, authors and professors.
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The Soft Kill
July 15, 2016 20:00 - 54 minutes - 53.5 MBHealth Impacts of Crowd Control Weapons Increasingly Used by Police and Security Forces Around the World. Discussion with Dr. Rohini J. Haar on the main crowd control weapons used by police and security forces and their health impacts and potential lethality. We also discuss the insufficiency of police training in the use of weapons and insufficient regulation of their manufacture leading to unintended injuries, as well as police abuse of weapons. Additionally, we look at the absence of co...
Gone with the Wind - Reproductive Rights in Retreat
July 01, 2016 20:00 - 1 hour - 68.1 MBTRAPS, the Hyde Amendment, Criminalization of Self-Induced Abortion and Increasing Restrictions on Reproductive Rights in the United States. Discussion with Jill E. Adams and Melissa Mikesell on Whole Women's Health v Hellerstedt and the constitutionality and impact of TRAPS (targeted regulations of abortion providers) and increasing criminalization of self-induced abortion. We also look at increased violence at clinics, parental consent laws and the particular plight of indigent women re...
Nicaragua Canal Part I: The Big Land Grab
June 15, 2016 20:00 - 26 minutes - 33.3 MBHuman Rights Violations of Nicaraguan Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean Communities in the Expropriation of Their Ancestral Lands for the Development of an Environmentally Disastrous Canal Linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Nicaragua. Discussion with Professor Thomas Antkowiak on the development of the Nicaragua Canal which would link the Pacific and Atlantic oceans through Nicaragua and the concessions provided to the Chinese company HKND over the traditional lands of Afro-Caribb...
Housing Not Handcuffs
June 01, 2016 20:00 - 43 minutes - 60.4 MBLack of Affordable Housing and the Criminalization of Homelessness and Food Sharing Throughout the United States. Discussion with Eric Tars respecting the lack of affordable housing and incidence of homelessness throughout the United States, the criminalization of homelessness and food sharing in numerous counties and the constitutionality and impact of these laws. We also discuss housing as a human right, the particular effects of homelessness on children and the need for more effective p...
A New Curtain Falls
May 15, 2016 20:00 - 52 minutes - 24.1 MBCurtailment of Freedom of Expression, Political Opposition and Advocacy in Russia. Discussion with Bach Avezdjanov on human rights violations and restrictions on political opposition in Russia. We discuss the use of the Foreign Agents Law to shut down “undesirable NGOs” working for human rights advocacy, restrictions on media, including limitation of foreign ownership and the “two strikes and you are out" rule, subjecting bloggers to registration and control as media entities, the use of ...
The New Frontier
May 01, 2016 20:00 - 44 minutes - 20.3 MBHealth and Human Rights, Their Intersection with Trade Law and the Work of the Lawyers Collective. Discussion with Gabriel Armas-Cardona on health and human rights, including justiciabiility, enforcement, access to medicine and intersection with trade law. We also look at the work of the Lawyers Collective, an Indian legal organization that runs a global health and human rights database and litigates in the service of health and human rights, including access to medicine.Gabriel is a huma...
Imprisoned Lightning
April 15, 2016 20:00 - 49 minutes - 22.5 MBA Critical Look at the Antiquated Immigration System of the United States. Discussion with Jasmin Singh and Amanda Emerson on asyulum, refugees, undocumented workers and employment law violations and state action on immigration. Jasmin is an immigration at Arrufat Garcia, PLLC and has presented immigration issues on several radio stations, including La Mega FM, Amor FM and WADO AM. Amanda is an immigration attorney with Yarden Law Group, LLC.
Vote with your fork
April 01, 2016 20:00 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MBInternational Food Security and Developments in Permaculture. Discussion with Mark Notaras on increasing international food security from our growing population, increased meat consumption around the world, climate change, soil erosion, depleted freshwater resources and the unsustainable practices of Big Ag. We also look at issues of international conflict between riparian countries and the possibilities for greater international cooperation in management of shared resources, advancements ...
Aftershock
March 15, 2016 20:00 - 2 days - 23.9 MBGender Based Crime in Haiti and the Work of the Rape Accountability and Prevention Project. Discussion with Meena Jagannath on gender based voilence in Haiti, its socio-economic contex, the legal and institutional obstacles in obtaining convictions and the work of the Rape Accountability and Prevention Project. Meena was a legal fellow at the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) and coordinator of its Rape Accountability and Prevention Project from April 2011 through September 2012 for ...