PRX - Pieces for Format: Weekly Program

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

50 results


Putting Public Safety in Public Hands: The Newark Model
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Move money and power from police to communities and invest in local control. In the face of ongoing police brutality against African Americans and ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Musician Raul Midón on Creative Adaptation During Covid-19
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Grammy-nominated musician Raul Midón has never fit neatly into any category. A skillful singer-songwriter and guitarist, he melds African and Latin...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Environment Injustice As Usual During Pandemic
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
In this episode, Laura speaks with grassroots environmental organizers Cindy Donis and Laura Cortez from East Yard Communities for Environmental Ju...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the inf...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Future Is Public: Special Report from Amsterdam
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
In just the last decade, more than 2,400 cities in 58 countries have brought privatized resources back under public control. In this episode, Laura...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Revolutionary Love: An Interview With Rev. Jacqueline Lewis
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
As 2019 comes to a close, Laura speaks with Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Lewis of Middle Collegiate Church in New York City's East Village. Rev. Jacqui's pu...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Special: Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
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
Women of Color Lead the Way
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
At the 2019 Progressive Strategy Summit members of Congress and progressive change makers came together to build a movement that won’t only win bac...

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


  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Special Report: Making Buffalo Our City
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
How do you revitalize a city without gentrifying it? In this episode of the Laura Flanders Show, Laura goes to Buffalo, New York, where years of po...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Reporting on Economic Hardship
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Roughly 40 million people live in poverty in the USA. Can you imagine living under $24,000 a year for a family of four? If you can’t, why not? Sure...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Alice Sheppard and STREB: Beauty, Risk, Mobility, and Inclusion
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
This week, dance as world-changing movement with two artists who expand our ideas about beauty, risk, mobility, and inclusion. Wheelchair dancer an...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Democracy: Past, Present... and Future?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Don't remember the past? Does that mean you're condemned to repeat it? What does our country's past tell us about our present— and how can it help ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tech: Existential Threat or Life Support?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Days of wonder, days of rage. We're living through an information revolution as profound as any since Gutenberg and the printing press, but are we ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Commoning Our Cities: Mary Miss, Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Reinventing our cities and re-enchanting the world. Who gets a say in designing where they live? We visit artist Mary Miss's organization, The Cit...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Feb 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
NYC Organizers Say #NOHQ2 and Win
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Before the news broke of Amazon's HQ2 pulling out of NYC's L.I.C., we looked at the resistance the plan provoked and why, and considered how develo...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Can a Progressive Candidate Win in Rural America?: Anthony Flaccavento
From: Laura Flanders
Piece image
Anthony Flaccavento is running for the US House seat in Virginia's 9th district, a large, sparsely populated region in the southwestern corner of t...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
Kingston Calling: Making Media Into Action
From: Laura Flanders
Piece image
For many, mass movements have made them aware of media's failure to inform and represent them. Activists are now working to make their own media, a...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
Boy Scouts, Fishheads & The Living Dead
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: None of This Is Normal!
Life is But A Dream mix with current affairs blending music and politics with celebrations of the famous & infamous on "Nuit sur Les Champs-Elysees...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:57:49
Iran Belongs to Its Youth
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Piece image
Veteran journalist Reese Erlich takes us to Iran, where young people, who make up over 40% of the country’s population, are looking toward the futu...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Getting Out
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Piece image
Nationally, American prisons release more than 650,000 people into society every year. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Bos...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Concussions: Your Brain or the Game?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Scrum-1, Credit: Maree Reveley
They say a smart athlete will use their head. But what if using your head cost you everything? That's a question being asked in locker rooms the wo...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shh!: Life in a State of Surveillance
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Wiring Before, Credit: Flikr user Kelp
Who's watching you? Nowadays it seems everyone wants to get their hands on our personal data. From the FBI to the welfare department, to some of th...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KMUN, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Lessons of Nagasaki
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hope for peace in Nagasaki. Atomic bomb anniversary, 2004., Credit: creative common flickr user: Marufish
The US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Three days later, Nagasaki also fell victim. On this edition, w...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, KSFR, WVTF, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 8
Episode 6: All Things
From: Barika Edwards
Series: The Aliens
Piece image
Episode 6 All Things All things must come to an end... but some endings are truly new beginnings. Season one of The Aliens culminates with "All Th...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 54:53
Making Contact: Survivors of Solitary Confinement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hakeem Shaheed
Tens of thousands are in solitary confinement in American prisons which according to the United Nations is torture. Producer Claire Schoen met nine...

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: May 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1