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Two stories that challenge the conventional approach to very different issues.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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"For many Americans, there’s never been a better time to reconsider the entire system. Years of work, by abolitionists like Angela Davis, Ruthie Gi...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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"Every Juneteenth has me thinking about life and the unknown, and the experience of those who lived two and half years enslaved, denied the news th...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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The F-Word is features timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. The latest: "It is the essence of American liberalism to trash radical ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jeff Chang, Credit: Jeremy Villaluz
“From almost every kind of responsibility and tie from engagement and from faith. So the artist--our task is to move ourselves and the rest of us i...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Community March Against Islamophobia December 13, 2015, Credit: Under CC Misha Voloaca
On this edition of Making Contact we’ll meet people confronting racist depictions of Muslims and Arabs in pop culture and politics; and two young w...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Fresh water is the topic of discussion once again on World Ocean Radio. In this episode host Peter Neill re-asserts the gravity of the global fresh...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 05:02
Caption: Nobis Deus...he likes it.., Credit: Susan Cook
In Today's Department of Poetic Justice (and The Great American Wrongbook), "Donald J. Trump- The Evangelical Version" which could be sung to the ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:59
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
If Woodward and Bernstein and Ben Bradlee had gone for the “gotcha” instead of the truth, the cost would have been the truth. The integrity that ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:45
Caption: "...as close as you can to the truth, that wild horse that once you catch..., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about what is right and wrong. Today's Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks: Why not mangle,`distort the i...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 01:04
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
After Nelson Mandela was freed from the life sentence he was serving in prison, he often spoke about refusing bitterness toward his captors. But h...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:54
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
"Updating your truth" is a term not much used these days. We read that somebody "denied", "vetoed", "denounced", "maintained", "refused to consider...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2013
  • Length: 04:07
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The lessons of D.L. Rosenhan's 40 year old study of psychiatric patients "plagerised" psychiatric diagnosis to see if they would be detected as fra...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2013
  • Length: 06:18
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In this season of gratitude, speak. Uphold civil liberties, the human rights that we have, that others will travel thousands of miles for, and when...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2012
  • Length: 03:28
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Voting in the Israeli elections on a stormy winter morning.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 02:17
Caption: Mary Van Pelt, Credit: Miles Eddy
Invisible social barriers and the contrast between physical disabilities and psychiatric disabilities.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2009
  • Length: 03:36
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Commentary about the hopes of Mixed Race people and the Presidential race.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KCUR, Remix Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 08, 2008
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 5
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A Short Essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Aug 30, 2008
  • Length: 04:22
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Short essay by Peter Neill, director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Oct 25, 2007
  • Length: 04:48
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Some simple steps to heal the country

  • Added: May 30, 2007
  • Length: 04:15
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How support of troops gets conflated with support of war

  • Added: May 30, 2007
  • Length: 06:00
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Bethany Ocansey reminisces about the influence of racism on her childhood and how it didn't affect her until she moved from Europe to America.

  • Added: Sep 11, 2006
  • Length: 03:55
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A Colorado resident objects to the resurgence of uranium mining in her county.

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jul 24, 2005
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 1