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Approximately twelve percent of America’s population living in poverty. That’s not including those who barely make it month to month. Some see pove...
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- Added: Feb 09, 2021
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Most of us at one time or another ask the question, “Why would people walk hundreds of miles to the U.S. boarder knowing they will probably be turn...
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- Added: Apr 14, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Legend says whoever sees the Demon Cat of Capitol Hill is cursed. Fina Mendoza, the 10-year old daughter of a congressman, just saw it. Can she sav...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 01:56:10
- Purchases: 2
An act of oppression comes in many forms. Government, household, work environment, and even friendships. It happens when one group or person exerci...
- Added: Oct 29, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
No matter where you are in the world, you’re confronted by violence. One study shows that over half of our population is very concerned about the c...
- Added: Aug 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The financial crash of 2008 hit middle and working class families especially hard. They are still struggling.
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and KCBX
- Added: Jan 23, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
America’s system of public schools is recognized as one of the countries greatest achievements.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 15, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
America has a long, long, long history of embracing immigrants one day, generally because it needed them for economic reasons, a variation of slave...
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- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 27:50
- Purchases: 1
We hear from Munir Jirmanus, a physicist near Boston, MA about his multiple experiences and encounters with the concept of "home." Munir tells a nu...
- Added: Jan 04, 2017
- Length: 26:19
This popular and prolific children’s picture book creator takes Duck of barnyard fame to the next level—driving the farmer’s tractor. David talks a...
- Added: Nov 23, 2016
- Length: 09:57
There is deep concern for the health of American cities. Frustration with inequality is spreading. Public schools are lagging behind expectation. I...
- Added: Nov 14, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Fifteen years ago, Aspen Baker founded her support group Exhale. Its purpose is to open up respective dialogue and provide support for those who ch...
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A candidate for Wisconsin's 51st Assembly district remembers his son, Peter, who brought so much joy into his life.
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 08:19
State Rep. Chris Taylor tells the story of her difficult second pregnancy.
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 17:40
Bestselling author David Laskin unfolds a sweeping epic that spans the three major upheavals the affected Jews in the twentieth century: immigratio...
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- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
This month's Tin Roof Project, featuring Senator David Pryor reading his story "Nine Miles to Mustin Lake," followed by Q&A. True stories told by t...
- Added: Nov 10, 2012
- Length: 42:38
We don't yet know all of the implications of the recently passed North Carolina marriage amendment. But for those who opposed the amendment- both g...
- Added: Aug 18, 2012
- Length: 04:46
What happens when a group of friends get together to buy a house? That's what some people did in Portland, Oregon in 2003. The house is still owned...
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- Added: Sep 01, 2011
- Length: 08:51
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A commentary noting that the new minimum wage should now be raised to at least $9.50 an hour.
- Added: Aug 09, 2007
- Length: 04:26
Is it ok for litle girls to want to be a "princess?"
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 08, 2007
- Length: 03:52
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From: Robin Carneen
Series: Celebrate diversity and honor immigrant workers in Whatcom County! MONDAY MAY 1st
Series: Celebrate diversity and honor immigrant workers in Whatcom County! MONDAY MAY 1st
Snapshot of Immigrants from Whatcom County
- Added: May 01, 2006
- Length: 01:46
From: Robin Carneen
Series: Celebrate diversity and honor immigrant workers in Whatcom County! MONDAY MAY 1st
Series: Celebrate diversity and honor immigrant workers in Whatcom County! MONDAY MAY 1st
An immigrant's snapshot of family history of how the Delagarcas came to Whatcom County, in Northwest Washington State.
- Added: May 01, 2006
- Length: 07:29
Democratic U.S. Congressman Jim McDermott, talks about depleted uranium used by the U.S. military to
From: Hawaii Public Radio
Democratic U.S. Congressman Jim McDermott, talks about depleted uranium used by the U.S. military to encase armor and ammunition. McDermott believ...
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- Added: Jun 02, 2005
- Length: 03:25
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Political radical and former prisoner, Ray Levasseur sorts out his past, present, and future.
- Added: Jan 10, 2005
- Length: 07:37
The memory of my father inspires our search for working non-voters in Carolina.
- Added: Sep 28, 2004
- Length: 05:40
