A Just Cause Radio

A Just Cause Radio - Shining a Spotlight on Capitol Hill & U.S. Senator John McCain - 05.12.17

The host Cliff Stewart, Lisa Stewart and Lamont Banks will be Shining a Spotlight on Capitol Hill & U.S. Senator John McCain, who was first elected to political office on November 2, 1982, easily winning a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives after his well-known war record helped overcome doubts about his "carpetbagger" status. He was re-elected in 1984 and in 1986, after the retirement of longtime Arizona senator and prominent Republican Barry Goldwater, McCain won election to the U.S. Senate. 

A Just Cause Radio - Closing Federal Prison Camps Will Save Taxpayers over $1 Billion - 05.07.17

The host Cliff Stewart, Lisa Stewart and Lamont Banks our AJC Radio Hosts will be discussing federal prison camps, which are considered "out-custody" facilities without fences or walls posing questions in regards to the wisdom of the federal government wasting billions of tax dollars of welfare-style appropriations for non-violent able-bodied men and women being housed at federal prison camps when home confinement with an ankle monitor can accomplish the same security and punitive objectives without the enormous financial and social costs. 

A Just Cause Radio - Shining a Spotlight on Capitol Hill & Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman - 04.30.17

The host Cliff Stewart, Lisa Stewart and Lamont Banks will be Shining a Spotlight on Capitol Hill & Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, who is currently serving her sophomore term in the United States Congress. Prior to her election as Representative for New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, Watson Coleman served eight consecutive terms in the New Jersey General Assembly.

A Just Cause Radio - The Elderly has been forgotten in America's Prisons - 04.23.17

The host Cliff Stewart, Lisa Stewart and Lamont Banks speaks to our Special Guests Leonna Brandao, who is a Social Worker and Founder of New Vision Organization, Inc. and Stan Stojkovic, who is a Professor of Criminal Justice and Dean in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he has taught since 1983.

A Just Cause Radio - Shining a Spotlight on Capitol Hill & Congressman Elijah E. Cummings - 04.16.17

The host Cliff Stewart, Lisa Stewart and Lamont Banks will be Shining a Spotlight on Capitol Hill & Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, who has dedicated his life of service to uplifting and empowering the people he is sworn to represent. He began his career of public service in the Maryland House of Delegates, where he served for 14 years and became the first African American in Maryland history to be named Speaker Pro Tem.  Since 1996, Congressman Cummings has proudly represented Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

A Just Cause Radio - America's Children Trapped Behind The Walls of Incarceration - 04.09.17

The host Cliff Stewart, Lisa Stewart and Lamont Banks speaks with Our Special Guests Thena Robinson Mock, Esq., who serves as Director of Advancement Project’s Opportunity to Learn Program. She is a civil rights and community lawyer with over a decade of experience in racial and social justice advocacy.  In this role, Thena leads Advancement Project’s education initiatives aimed at supporting grassroots community organizing to end the criminalization of students of color and challenge school privatization policies that fuel education inequity in communities of color.

A Just Cause Radio - Shining a Spotlight on Capitol Hill & Congressman Steve Cohen - 04.02.17

The host Cliff Stewart, Lisa Stewart and Lamont Banks will be Shining a Spotlight on Capitol Hill & Congressman Steve Cohen, who is a fourth-generation Memphian of Tennessee, who has dedicated his life to public service. As a child, the challenges of living with polio taught him how to overcome obstacles through persistence and determination, values which would shape his career as a legislator. 

A Just Cause - Shining a Spotlight on Capitol Hill & Congresswoman Robin Kelly - 03.26.17

The host Cliff Stewart, Lisa Stewart and Lamont Banks will be Shining a Spotlight on Capitol Hill & Congresswoman Robin Kelly, who has dedicated her career to public service as an advocate for Illinois families.  Since being elected to serve the 2nd Congressional District in 2013, she has worked to expand economic opportunity, community wellness, and public safety across the state, championing numerous initiatives to generate job growth, reduce health disparities, and end gun violence.

A Just Cause - Shining a Spotlight on Capitol Hill & Congressman Bennie Thompson - 03.19.17

The host Cliff Stewart, Lisa Stewart and Lamont Banks will be Shining a Spotlight on Capitol Hill & Congressman Bennie Thompson, who has spent his entire life giving a voice to the voiceless. The Congressman’s lifelong public service record is a testament to his unwavering dedication to fulfil and exceed the expectations of the constituents of the Second Congressional District of Mississippi. A native of rural Bolton, Mississippi, Thompson has always been aware of the realities that plague the South. Viewing the experiences his family endured first hand became the catalyst for his passion for those who were oftentimes underserved.

 

 

A Just Cause - Cruel & Unusual Sentencing Abuse in America's Courts - 03.12.17

The host Cliff Stewart, Lisa Stewart and Lamont Banks speaks with Our Special Guests is Molly Gill, who is FAMM’s director of federal legislative affairs and Melissa Hamilton, who is a Visiting Criminal Law Scholar at the University of Houston Law Center.