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North Carolina's LGBTQ Community Stands Against Domestic Terrorism
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Join Laura Flanders as she speaks with residents of Moore County affected by a targeted power outage during a drag show, uncovering potential motiv...

Bought by WORT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE: Taking Us Higher (An Appreciation)
From: Paul Ingles
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A celebration of some of the most irresistible music of the late 1960's and early '70's from group leader Sly Stone and the FAMILY STONE band - tha...

Bought by WUTC, KTNA, KSJE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KUHF and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Echoes of a Coup
From: Scene on Radio
Caption: Echoes of a Coup art, Credit: Zaire McPhearson
One-hour special (59:00 with 5-minute news hole), Echoes of a Coup, telling the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history -- the 189...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNYC, WUNC, WYPR, WFDD and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 25
Are We A Democracy Or A Republic?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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Is the US a democracy or a republic? And why do we only have two dominant political parties?

Bought by Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:32
  • Purchases: 1
Gerrymandering
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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The line between fairly splitting a state into voting districts, and purposely grouping voters to give one party an advantage.

Bought by WKSU and Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 2
How Secure Are Our Elections?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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A wave of recent legislation across the country promised to make our elections "more secure." Where did this suspicion of our voting process come f...

Bought by Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 1
Disinformation, Misinformation, and Propaganda
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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In preparation for the upcoming election, we’re going to talk about lies, manipulation, and confusion.

Bought by WHFR and Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 2
Why Vote, And How To Do It
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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We vote for our leaders, and those leaders represent our interests, but the impact of your vote isn't always so clear. Here's why you should vote a...

Bought by WKSU, KSKA, and Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 3
Too Much of Nothing
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Shane MacGowan, Credit: The Pogues
A Mockery Of Indo-China Eggplant Mix featuring Henry Kissinger, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon, George Santos, Liz Cheney, JFK, Spencer Tracy, Monty ...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:43
New Yorkers Welcome Migrants: What’s it Take to Make Sanctuary Real?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This year, New York City has received over 100,000 asylum seekers, including 15,000 unaccompanied minors. Most are from Latin America, where they f...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Radio Catskill, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 9
Posse Comitatus
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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What does it mean when the police use military gear and tactics to enforce that law?

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 19:35
19th Amendment: Part 1
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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We explore the myths and unveil the realities of the story of the Nineteenth Amendment in part one of two episodes.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 24:22
19th Amendment: Part 2
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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How did the divides in the suffrage movement define the fight for women’s enfranchisement? And how did that amendment finally get passed?

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 20:02
Freedom of the Press: Part 2
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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How can we learn the truth in an age of misinformation, "fake news" and media mistrust?

  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 14:20
Special Report: Deciding the Fate of Democracy in North Carolina
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this special report, we examine anti-democratic election law and a legal case — Moore vs. Harper — which is to be decided this term by the US Su...

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


  • Added: May 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
National American Indian Heritage Month- Busting the Thanksgiving Myth: Native Sovereignty & the Red Road
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Pilgrims, Indians, the myth of the grateful colonized person — it’s been at the core of a persistent but false Thanksgiving narrative that has dist...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Where It's At (Vol.21)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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Bluegrass, jazz and related connective musical material that reflects just WHAT in carnation is going on out there in the wider world these days (!!)

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:40
Best of Making Contact, 2021
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In this special year-end episode, Making Contact producers and staff turn the spotlight on some the best shows they aired in 2021.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Chief Standing Bear Story
From: KWIT
Series: Small Wonders
Caption: Chief Standing Bear
As the United States spread west, indigenous people were displaced without being given the most basic recognition under law: being "people." When t...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 46:34
Armed with Art: Taking Down the Wall of Whiteness
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“It's time to disrupt this wall of whiteness,” says interdisciplinary artist Favianna Rodriguez this week on the LF Show. From BLM and MeToo to col...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Special: Housing is A Human Right
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Before 2020, America was already in a housing crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic, high unemployment, and a recession have only made things worse. A reco...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
S2:E10 The Political Shuffle
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
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Leonard hits shuffle on his iPad...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:46
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part II): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish Studies (University of Notre Dame)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: From Episode 15: The Centennial of W.B. Yeats’ The Second Coming (Part 2): Things Fall Apart Today (Much Like A Century Ago). Featuring our discussion with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, Prize-winning documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish
Exactly one hundred years ago this month, at a time of political polarization and the Spanish Flu pandemic, William Butler Yeats published “The Sec...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 27:15
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part I): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Paul Muldoon (Princeton University)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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How does a century-old poem written in Ireland as European civil wars erupted in the aftermath of World War I still resonate in our own partisan er...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2020
  • Length: 22:36
Election 2020 Special: More Than a Vote
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Voting in one of the most momentous presidential elections in the nation’s history is over. The morning after polls closed nearly 136 million ballo...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3