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- AN INNOCENT TEACHER, PRESUMED GUILTY, IS RAILROADED TO PRISON (LUCINDA HITES-CLAUBAUGH — PART 3)
- GOOD DEED BACKFIRES: ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ABUSE (LUCINDA HITES-CLAUBAUGH — PART 2
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EGALITARIAN EDUCATOR TURNED REALTOR TACKLES CHALLENGES IN SCHOOLS AND THE TINY HOME MOVEMENT (PHIL BERTRAND)
Sylvia: It’s July 29, 2017 and I’m interviewing Phil Bertrand. My recollection is that you’ve been involved in education and then real estate most of your life. Is that correct? Education and real estate. In education I was an inner-city elementary … Continue reading
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Tagged Eugene meetup groups on tiny houses and permaculture, headmaster fired at private school, inner city school in unsafe building, Lane Community College (Oregon) and tiny houses, meetup groups on environmental issues in Oregon, Northwest United Educators, Opportunity Village in Eugene Oregon, Oregon eco-brokers and tiny houses, Oregon PTA groups opposing school board, organizing an Oregon parent group, Phil Bertrand, schools in Noti Oregon, social organization in Noti Oregon, teachers in Wisconsin blocked from organizing, Todd Miller architect-builder in Oregon, white principal in Indiana minority school
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WRONGFULLY IMPRISONED, THEN CLEARED AND FIGHTING THE SYSTEM (LUCINDA HITES-CLAUBAUGH — PART 4)
Lucinda: I ended up getting an attorney that was a drunk. I didn’t know that she was an alcoholic. She was drinking port each day at the breaks and at lunch so she wasn’t quite all there. She also, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcoholic defense attorneys in Oregon, assaults by Oregon prisoners on child abusers, attacks by women prisoners on each other at Coffee Creek, “privileges” of women prisoners in Oregon, compensation from the State for wrongful imprisonment., D.A. fabricating evidence of sexual abuse, D.A. hiding exculpatory witnesses, district attorney suppressing evidence in Oregon, effects of long term solitary confinement, felony convictions without unanimous jury vote in Oregon, learning official rules for women prisoners in Oregon, Mark Geiger defense attorney, misinterpretation of gesture in sexual abuse, Oregon ACLU, Oregon Innocence Project, Oregon law re teacher tapping a student, prisoners forbidden to touch other prisoners, sex parties held by women prisoners in Oregon, suicides of women prisoners in Oregon, Teachers Standards and Practices Commission in Oregon
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AN INNOCENT TEACHER, PRESUMED GUILTY, IS RAILROADED TO PRISON (LUCINDA HITES-CLAUBAUGH — PART 3)
Lucinda: She reported that her child had said that a substitute had touched her. It didn’t go into any detail, but the intake people were brand new and they didn’t have proper training. The state protocols say that if you … Continue reading
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Tagged audio/video records of criminal interrogation, Cares Northwest interviews re sexual abuse, child sexual abuse penalties in OR, cost of fighting felony charges in OR courts, illegal touching of elementary students by teachers in Oregon, inconclusive lie detector tests in felony cases., Innocence Project and tainting witness statements, Lucinda Hites-Claubaugh, mistaken presumption of sexual abuse, Oregon Dept. of Human Services hotline, Oregon Education Association and sexual abuse, public defenders in OR criminal justice system, Reed technique of criminal interrogation, reporting on neglect or sexual abuse of children, school counselors evaluating troubled students, substitute reports on elementary school teaching, union representation for accused teachers in OR, Weingarten act in OR and sexual abuse, witness required for criminal interrogation
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DAUGHTER OF IDEALISTS SETS OUT TO REFORM HER WORLD
Sylvia: It’s July 17, 2017 and I’m interviewing Lucinda Hites-Claubaugh. I know that you’re a Quaker, you’re 60 years old, and for over two years you were imprisoned for a crime you did not commit. Now you’re working to correct … Continue reading
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Tagged criticizing school district for gender inequality in sports in the 1970s, Dance and music therapy in children's education, Delegates for Bernie Sanders to the Democratic National Convention, Dennis Kucinich and univefrsal health care phoning registered v, fighting gender discrimination in sports, HUAC and Reed College in the fifties, Lloyd Marbett and Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, Lucinda Hites-Claubaugh, medical care for Native Americans in the 1970s, medical care on the Ute reservtion, Migrant Head Start Oregon Child Development Coalition, National Oreganization for Women and suits re Title IX gender discrimination laws, Oregon's beach access bill, Oregon's bottle bill, OSPIRG and the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, phoning registered voters in Spanish and Cambodian for Bernie Sa, sex discrimination in school support of girls' spports in the 1970s in Colorado, Thousand Friends of Oregon and the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, uranium mining in Colorado and cancer, Ute children forced to speak English
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Using the “Alternatives to Violence” Program to Teach and Heal Inmates in Prisons (Ethen Perkins — Part 2)
Ethen: For many years now I’ve been involved in introducing nonviolence workshops to prisons and visiting in juvenile detention and jails and things like that. And became aware of the real need that people had in those institutional settings for … Continue reading
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Tagged abundance of activism in Eugene Oregon, Alternatives to Violence programs in Northwest prisons, Ethen Perkins, Just Mercy valuable book, Peace and Justice committees in Friends (Quaker) Meetings, personal empowerment program to lessen violence and fear in prison, prisoners shouting through cracks at the bottom of their doors to others in nearby cells, value of installing solar panels on a Quaker meetinghouse
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Repairing Damaged Environments and Bearing Witness Against Police Brutality (Ethen Perkins — Part 1)
Sylvia: It’s May 18th, 2017 and I’m interviewing Ethen Perkins. Activism has not been your main career. What have you done most of your life? Ethen: Most of my life I was an environmental consultant working on various projects. Some … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg at trial of the Chicago Seven in 1969, burning sections of prairie in Iowa to help endangered species, drafting Quakers/Amish/Mennonites to fight wars, Ethen Perkins, FBI intimidation of supporters of Black Panthers, FBI spies within the Black Panther party, impact of murders of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, Jody Kretzmann in 1968-69, Malheur Field Station, Malheur Wildife Refuge and BLM lands, repairing environments to save wetlands and endangered species, sandhill cranes and courtship behavior of leks, slaughter by New York State police of hostages in Attica prison revolt, urban studies in Chicago in 1968-69, urban studies students in Chicago sharing apartments with Black Panthers
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Fundraising for Good Causes and Teaching Others to Do the Same (Cleo Tung)
Sylvia: It’s April 19, 2017 and I’m interviewing Cleo Tung who works for Partnership for Safety and Justice. And we’re gonna talk about her activism. Has this been your main career? It has not. Fundraising has always been the … Continue reading
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Tagged children entertaining in old folks homes, children of Taiwanese immigrants to the U.S., Cleo Tung, community service by Taiwanese-American children, criminological research as a career, fundraising as activism, fundraising as organizing, fundraising for criminal justice reform, fundraising for criminal justice reform in Oregon, fundraising for UNICEF by making pillows, interning in the U.S. Attorney General's Office in 2008, need for criminal justice reform in the U.S., Partnership for Safety and Justice in Oregon, taboos against asking people for money
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Debunking fake history and fighting oppression like the Civil War soldier he’s descended from (Chuck Hunt — Part 2)
Chuck: So anyway civil rights, women, anti-war. Developed into an understanding of gay liberation. And then, of course, being in Canada, where you had National Health Insurance, I began to understand issues of health care distribution and health and illness. … Continue reading
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Tagged 42nd Illinois Volunteers in the Civil War, Canadian national health insurance, Chuck Hunt, disastrous impact of Columbus on indigenous, El Salvador in the eighties, first black winner of Congressional Medal of Honor, health insurance for graduate teaching fellows in Oregon, Helen Keller as anarchist and socialist, impact of Civil War performance of black soldiers on whites, James Loewen author, Lies My Teacher Told Me, Patriot Act and Canadian green card holders, status of green card holders in the U.S., teaching about fake history
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Interviews with Activists for Positive Social Change 