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Criminalized Survival
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Activist, Kim Dadou Brown, Credit: Daniel A. Nelson
In this episode, Natalie Pattillo and Daniel A. Nelson talk with us about their documentary, And So I Stayed. This award-winning film centers three...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Recovery Point
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I started out in detox and worked my way up to the director's position.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
A Shortcut Through 2017
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Goodbye Village Voice
A look back at the last twelve months, a retrospective of a truly transitional year with a disturbing loss of morals, constitution values and major...

Bought by 'The Sea', Indie3 Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KDUR, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:22
  • Purchases: 13
Maureen
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Sparx is a rat terrier Chihuahua, and he doesn’t let people get too close to me, I think for fear that they’re going to hurt me. He’s a good boy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 3: Lost weekends
From: KCRW's Independent Producer Project
Series: Off The Block
Caption: Betty Peters, known as Mama Betty, shuttles jail visitors along the last mile of the journey. , Credit: George Lavender
Thousands of Los Angeles County prisoners are housed in Pitchess Detention center. For visitors, the journey to the jail can take all day. The clos...

Bought by PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 3
Bought and Sold
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports
Caption: Javille Sutton was a 14-year-old runaway when she accepted a ride from a pimp who sold her across the country for the next six years. She was arrested multiple times as a juvenile. She now counsels girls at a horse ranch for young victims of trafficking.
Advocates for kids are pushing for a new approach to combating underage prostitution: treating young people caught up in sex trafficking as victims...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WRIR, WEKU, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Motherhood by Choice not Chance
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Before it was legal in the United States, some doctors would risk arrest to provide women with access to safe abortions. When that wasn’t possible,...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
See Jane Do: Mother's Day for Peace and Social Justice
From: Elisa Parker
Caption: CODEPINK Mother's Day for Peace Vigil, Credit: Jesse Locks, See Jane Do
The stories of everyday women doing extraordinary things for peace at the largest Mother's Day peace vigil in Washington D.C. Special guests includ...

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: 56:10
  • Purchases: 1
A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (1 hour Special)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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One mother's fight to save her daughter's life from a dysfunctional and inhumane health care system in California's prisons.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady
From: KUT
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is an edited version of the award-winning documentary that was produced for KUT in 2001. 'Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady' chronicle...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WEKU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KFSK


  • Added: Jul 12, 2007
  • Length: 56:58
  • Purchases: 4
RN Documentary: Durga's Court
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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One woman is running a very unusual court of justice in a small Indian village where she uses folk tales, religious stories and her own common sens...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, WJAB, WBEZ, and KWCW


  • Added: Oct 26, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 5
RN Documentary: A Life of Ashes: Widows in India
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A personal journey of an Indian born producer of a widow to look at the situation of widows in India.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, KXOT Public Radio, and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
Part 2: Beyond the Veil
From: Vermont Public
Series: Iran Today
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Women's lives in Iran defy stereotypes. Women are caught between modernity and tradition, and their rights under Iranian law reflect these paradoxes.

Bought by WBEZ, Radio Catskill, KVMR, WBEZ, KWCW and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 07:57
  • Purchases: 6
Girls From Cambodia
From: Outer Voices
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An honest look into the sex industry in Cambodia

Bought by KUER, WRPI, KFOK-LPFM, WUFT, KUT-HD and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2006
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 17
Girls from Cambodia with newshole
From: Outer Voices
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Girls From Cambodia - an honest look into sex trafficking in Cambodia

Bought by WUFT, KUT-HD, WOSU, KQED, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2006
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 9
Talking About Abortion: A Resurgence in Sound
From: Marian van der Zon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An experiential history told primarily through women’s voices, spanning six decades.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 59:21
The Breast Cancer Monologues
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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A one-hour documentary special intricately woven from interviews, readings and original music about how breast cancer has affected the lives of wom...

Bought by WJSU, KVSC, KWIT, KPVL, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2004
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 16