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Civic Action: Protest
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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We explore the long scope of public dissent from the Boston Tea Party to the current #blacklivesmatter protests.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 25:14
  • Purchases: 1
Josh Paul Reveals The Truth Behind US Arms Supply to Israel
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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After 11 years in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs — the entity most responsible for arms transfers to allies and partne...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Patriarchy Trap
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Can a crisis of masculinity explain why men are falling behind?

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
As 2022 Election Results Roll In: Concern, Context, & Perspective
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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Our best guest insights to keep in mind during these polarizing 2022 midterm elections

  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 17:36
Can China Erase History in Hong Kong
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week's episode, we hear about the various ways that Beijing is tightening the screws on Hong Kong's freedom of expression, speech, and press.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, WEKU, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Apr 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Ajmal Achekzai
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Ajmal Achekzai reflects on escaping Afghanistan as a child, returning as a U.S. Marine, and his fears and hope for the future of its people.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Sep 08, 2021
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 1
A Perfect Storm for Depression
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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All across the country, life is inching towards a pre-pandemic normal, but the mental health impact of the pandemic will cast a long shadow. This s...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2021
  • Length: 04:26
When Phobia Becomes Hate
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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When does phobia cross over into hate speech? Does a social media site need a bloodthirsty exhortation to deliver a 6-inch deep cut before it can act?

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Dan Bazile: People Will Be People
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Dan Bazile, Credit: Shefik
Revolution - In March 2004, Dan Bazile joined the news team at WNYT (a television affiliate of NBC), where he anchors "Weekend Today". Prior to tha...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:04
Hallelujah Farewell: Chris Hedges and Reverend Billy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Chris Hedges explains why President Donald Trump is just the predictable end of a long sad history of American avaric...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 28:46
  • Purchases: 1
Resistance: The Ballot and The Bullhorn
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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From no, I won't to yes, we will. It’s official, over a hundred women, more women than ever, were voted into Congress including New Mexico’s Deb Ha...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Nov 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
From: Popula
Series: Radio Sermon with Brother Layne
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Above and Below.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
Throwing Shade Not Light on the Youth Vote
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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Millennials and younger people now make up America’s largest group of eligible voters, surpassing Baby Boomers for the first time.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
After Maria: Puerto Rican Self Determination
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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While the money media shifts to emerging social crises, many continue to struggle for basic supplies, medical care, and services including electric...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
#785- Puerto Rico goes four feet up
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Puerto Rico goes belly up, four feet up in mouse terms. What does it mean? Puerto Rico is neither a state nor a city. So what happens. Why did it h...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2017
  • Length: 06:24
The Sacrifice of Khizr Khan
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Khizr Khan at the DNC Convention
Khizr Khan did something few have been able to do in this bitter and vulgar presidential election.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Orlando
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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That most basic of human gestures of intimacy, a kiss, can still be deadly.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
In The Department of Poetic Justice (with lyrics for The Great American Wrongbook): "Donald J. Trump- The Evangelical Version" (The song and dance genre)
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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
Local Blogger, Jeff Schauer Shares His thoughts on American Politics On Unspun
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Jeff Schauer
Unspun welcomes local blogger and historian, Jeff Schauer, to discuss the political atmosphere in America. In recent articles he analyzes the Trum...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:31
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: Where Is the "Good" Donald Trump?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
This civil liberty loving country listens with astonishment to Donald Trump, ignore religious freedom and propose that no Muslims be allowed into t...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:22
What's that poking at your conscience?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Aylan and Galib Kurdi
We are inundated by a circus of gratuitous and salacious images in our media everyday, but one recent photograph has cut through the clutter.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
A runner's high in prison
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - San Quentin Prison Report
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Chris Schumacher may be serving a life sentence, but when he runs, he feels a sense of freedom. Once an addict, he now finds that exercise can curb...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 04:30
Band of volunteers keeps an eye on SF bond projects
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Bond-funded construction at Dolores Park, Credit: Flickr user torbakhopper
In the most recent election, San Francisco voters approved a $500-million transportation bond for projects like BART escalators, traffic signals, b...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 1
Homeless veterans’ unlikely home in San Francisco’s Financial District
From: KALW
Caption: Jackie Cooper at home, Credit: Marcy Fraser
One in four homeless people are veterans. There are approximately 800 homeless veterans on San Francisco’s streets.Experts in the field believe the...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 09:07
A place in the Tenderloin where sleep is sacred
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Every morning in the Tenderloin, when people all around San Francisco are starting to wake up, around 30 people gather at St. Boniface Church, wait...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 08:07