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Award-Winning Poet Martín Espada discusses advocacy in writing
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR celebrates the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, Martin Espada, whose new book FLOATERS tackles the social issue...

Bought by WCPN and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
2021-07-30 Vandana Shiva and the Hubris of Manipulating Nature
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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From clearing land for pasture to building dams, humans have long changed the face of the Earth. But Indian eco-feminist Vandana Shiva is highly cr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
210730: Vandana Shiva and the Hubris of Manipulating Nature, 7/30/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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From clearing land for pasture to building dams, humans have long changed the face of the Earth. But Indian eco-feminist Vandana Shiva is highly cr...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
We Need #TomateloEnSerioMX
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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TómateloEnSerioMX is the hashtag under which journalists in Mexico have come together not only to protect themselves, but to stop the spread of mis...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
I Spy: Real Life Spy Stories
From: Rob Sachs
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Espionage was once a mostly male pursuit but these days the top three officials at the CIA are women. On this program we hear from Jonna Mendez, th...

Bought by WWNO, KSPB Pebble Beach, WVTF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KECG and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 58
Special: Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Social change and systems change go hand-in-hand. Movements for democracy and human rights are most effective when they aim to transform unjust, un...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Green New Deal, Yellow Vests
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Activists at all levels of the climate justice movement discuss how inter-generational, cross-coalition, and global organizing is taking control of...

Bought by KDNK and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Natural Gas in the New Bolivia
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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An anthropologist comments on the complicated relationship in Bolivia between the natural gas industry and those who want to protect the environmen...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 12:00
Kathy Boylan of the Catholic Workers House Criticizes the Radical Pope
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Kathy Boylan
Unspun talks with Kathy Boylan of the Catholic Workers House in Wash. D.C. about the Radical Pope, Pope Francis, and his visit to America and the D...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2015
  • Length: 59:03
Direct Action with Mauro Oliviera at the Creech AFB Drone Protest
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Doug Bennett - Host of Unspun
Unspun features Direct Action activists protesting Drone Warfare and "extra-judicial" murder by the Obama administration, at Creech Air Force Base ...

  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:57
Unspun Discusses Guantanamo Diary with Ms. Nancy Hollander, Mohamedou Slahi's Lawyer
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Nancy Hollande
This Saturday on Unspun we are talking with Ms. Nancy Hollander. Ms. Hollander is an internationally recognized criminal defense lawyer and past pr...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
Unspun Shares Chris Hedges' Speech in Santa Cruz
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Chris Hedges
Unspun features Chris Hedges. We present excerpts from his recent speech given in Santa Cruz on November 23rd, 2014. I call the speech "Fighting F...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2015
  • Length: 57:22
Radio Réussite 1: Il Faut Travailler (You've Got to Work)
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Radio Réussite (Radio Success)
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
This episode (in French) focuses on the importance of work and perseverance. It features an interview with a seamstress apprentice named Honorine A...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 15:05
Simmer 2: The Rainbow or the Stick?
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Simmer
Caption: Yams simmering for fufu in Togo, West Africa, Credit: Carla Seidl
"The Rainbow or the Stick?: Teaching and Discipline Across Cultures" features interviews with Renee Owen, director of the Rainbow Mountain Childre...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
Unspun Interviews Judyth Vary-Baker, Lee Harvey Oswalds Lover and Confidant
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Judyth Vary-Baker
Unspun talks with Lee Harvey Oswald's lover and confidant, Judyth Vary-Baker. Judyth is an author, artist, poet, teacher and social scientist. 35...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 59:58
Left Forum Friday, May 30, 2014 Plenary
From: Scott Harris
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Left Forum Friday, May 30, 2014 Plenary with Cornel West, Immortal Technique, Marina Sitrin, and Stanley Aronowitz;

  • Added: Jun 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:39:12
Misunderstandings and Jokes: An Immigrant Struggles with Humor
From: Erika Lorentzsen
Series: New American Stories
Caption: Dirk Ockhardt from Germany discusses jokes, Credit: Erika Lorentzsen
Maintaining a sense of humor in another language can be difficult. Some misunderstandings can be humorous. Still, understanding the nuances of joke...

Bought by KKRN and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 2
Latitude News Podcast #9 — Mexican, undocumented...Mormon?
From: Latitude News
Caption: The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah. , Credit: Cookiecaper
A personal story from a growing demographic

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 15:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #60, Leslye
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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For our sixtieth (but far from the last) episode, we speak with Leslye Obiora, PhD, a person committed to community and women’s equality. Law profe...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
Women Rising #22: International Anti-Nuclear Activists (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Anti-nuclear demonstration in front of Japanese Diet , Credit: Matthias Lambrecht
For International Women’s Day and the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster listen again as three prominent female activists tell their stor...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Generation Putin - Hour Special
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
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"Generation Putin" is an hourlong special on young people and politics in the former Soviet Union. Embeddable on SoundCloud, too.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City, WGBH Radio Boston, KVSC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 55
Latitude News Podcast #6 — The Shady Trade in American Horsemeat
From: Latitude News
Caption: This racehorse never should have been eaten. , Credit: Ken Terpenning
Are Europeans eating drugged-up American horses?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 14:04
  • Purchases: 2
WINGS #32-12 Remembrance and Action
From: WINGS Women's International News Gathering Service
Caption: Poster for the National Day of Remembrance and Action December 1, 2012 event, in Vancouver BC Canada, Credit: Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter
23 years after the Montreal Massacre, feminists are still working like hell for accountability around violence against women.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 28:49
Iran's Non-Existent Nukes
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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Iran continues to enrich uranium for its non-existent nuclear weapons.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 05:54
Palestinians are Plants
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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New findings show that Palestinians are actually a species of plant.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 03:11