Cvil Rights and Wrongs for March 1, 2022

This Tuesday we’ll have a special edition of Civil Rights & Wrongs.  It’s the KOOP Spring Membership Drive, so we’re sharing some of the best of recent shows.  We will hear excerpts that include:

• Advocates for the rights of adoptees: Shawna Hodgson, an activist in the adoption, foster care and assisted reproduction communities in Texas; Gregory Luce, an adoptee rights attorney based in Minnesota; and Gabrielle Glaser, a journalist who examines issues surrounding mental health, medicine, and culture.  (First aired January 4.)
• Leaders in the Austin Justice Coalition: Chas Moore, Founder and Executive Director; and Chris Harris, Director of Policy.  Since it was founded in 2015, AJC has been at the forefront of racial justice in Austin.  You may also recognize Chris as a veteran programmer and volunteer here at KOOP.  (First aired February 8.)
• Tenant advocates Shoshana Krieger and Mincho Jacob from BASTA, and Joao Paulo Connolly from the Austin Justice Coalition, discuss the plight of renters and the looming eviction crisis.  (First aired January 18.)
• Historians Benjamin Johnson from Loyola University of Chicago and John Moran Gonzales from UT Austin.  They are co-founders of an organization called Refusing to Forget, an award-winning educational nonprofit that works to increase public awareness of an often-forgotten period in the history of the United States about 100 years ago.  (First aired December 14.)

As usual, we will close with observations from Austin Sanders, Staff Writer for the Austin Chronicle.  Austin discusses the recent indictment of 19 APD officers, charged with use of excessive force during the 2020 racial justice protests.  He recently co-authored an article in the current issue that analyzes those events, not only through the APD chain of command, but also from the managerial perspective in the City of Austin.