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  • Jonathan Hirsch

Jonathan I. Hirsch is an independent producer, reporter, and sound designer. His work as a producer has won The Green Eyeshade and Edward R. Murrow Awards. He has produced, reported, and sound designed stories for Outside Magazine, Life of the Law, KUOW, KCRW, KALW, NPR, and others. He is the host of the non-narrated audio documentary series ARRVLS -- a founding member of the independent storytelling collective The Heard. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

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Rig the System – Transcript

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • April 19, 2016

The law isn’t always black and white. Let’s say your neighbor wants to drill for oil in their backyard. It could be loud and it might even pollute the groundwater. You’re worried. Your neighbor feels…

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Rig the System – Part 2: A Fair Fight for a Fair Court

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • April 19, 2016

“I never felt more like a hooker at a bus station than when I ran for the Ohio State Supreme Court.”    — Paul Pfeifer, Associate Justice on the Ohio Supreme Court For many people living…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP4107553572.mp3
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Harris County USA

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • February 23, 2016

“Lowest voter participation in the nation. Lowest voter registration in the nation. We dug a deep deep hole in Texas. And what we’ve gotta do is stop digging.” -Leland Beatty              Voting is a…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP2639159610.mp3
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Harris County – Transcript

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • February 23, 2016

Voting is a right and it’s some states it’s pretty easy to do. You register, and then you go to the polling place and mark your ballot. But in more than half the states, laws…

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UnDACAmented Transcript

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • January 30, 2016

It’s been 20 years since Congress has passed comprehensive immigration reform in the US. So, in 2012 President Obama took matters into his own hands. His administration signed a memo granting undocumented immigrants who came…

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UnDACAmented

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • January 26, 2016

“And they just told me to sign here and here. Well I signed. And I guess I signed for my deportation.” – Luis Luis crossed the border into the US when he was 8 years…

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Outside the Walls

by Troy Williams

  • December 15, 2015

“I didn’t go to prison because I was a saint. I went to prison because of my lifestyle. Since the age of 13 I was a gangbanger, and did what gangbangers do. I’m 49 years…

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Thorpe’s Body

by Rachel Proctor May

  • October 20, 2015

It’s been over 60 years, but Henrietta Massey still remembers Jim Thorpe’s funeral. His first funeral. “Gosh, it was kind of like a shocking day for me,” said Sandra Massey, a tribal elder with the…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP9508232585.mp3
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The Narcoleptic Lawyer

by Yannick Morgan

  • October 13, 2015

Yannick Morgan is a lawyer and a graduate of Yale Law School. But before that, he was a sleeper. A great sleeper. Ever know someone to fall asleep at a swim meet … that they’re…

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Love Persists

by David Cowan

  • September 29, 2015

David Cowan was born in Pittsburgh. He works as an Operations Associate at the Prison University Project. Previously, he served in the US Air Force as an Aircraft Armament Systems Specialist and Weapons Loading Standardization…

http://play.publicradio.org/api-2.0.1/d/podcast/infinite_guest/live_law/2015/09/livelaw_20150929_128.mp3
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