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Host Jim Vrettos interviews Ray Rogers, Labor Rights Activist and Founder and Director of Corporate Campaign Inc. They talk about activism, the Real State Boar of New York (REBNY) and how their politics keep rents going high and construction workers being underpaid.

This episode aired originally in October 2015. Host Ronald Day, Associated VP of DRCPP, interviews Ashley Demyan, Research Associate at Vera Institute; and Mujahid Farid, Lead Organizer at Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP). The conversation focuses on the situation for those who have enter into...

Host Ronald F. Day, VP of programs at The Fortune Society, leads a discussion about the explosion in technical parole violations, the impact of these violations on individuals, the community, and the system, and ways to address this challenge. Guests are Tanya R. Pierce, co-founder and president of...

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Alan Stolzer from Military Initiative in the studio and Stanley Howard Co-author of "Tortured By Blue:The Chicago Police Torture Story" via phone call from an Illinois jail.

More than 2.7 million children in the U.S. currently have an incarcerated parent, and 10 million children experienced this at some point in their lives. The incarceration of an individual affects people who are often referred to as “hidden victims” - people impacted but rarely considered when...

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Nick Brana, Founder and Director Movement for a People's Party; and Russell Gray, Activist at Extinction Rebellion. They talk about the journey fighting for climate change.

Host Jim Vrettos interviews creators Alexis Chevalier, Actor, Writer, Director; and Michah Stinson, Producer, Writer, Actor.

There is a mass incarceration crisis underway in the United States that has been persisting for decades. America is home to roughly the same number people with criminal records as it is to four-year college graduates. While New York City holds criminal legal system reform up as a progressive reform...

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Alex Vitale, Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.  They talk about policing, its effects and the possibility of reducing it or even eliminate it.