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Chuck Collins: Disturbing The Very Comfortable
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Chuck Collins
The novelist David Foster Wallace once said, “Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” This week on Sea Change ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
70 Million - Highway Robbery: How a Small Town Traffic Trap Became A Legal Black Hole
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sandra Harris, photographed in her home. , Credit: Amarr Croskey
On today's show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a small town in Alabama, where an eager new police chief, unsuspecting m...

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


  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Alexander Zaitchik on Effective Altruism + Longtermism
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Zaitchik
As the news that thirty year-old cryptocurrency baron, Sam Bankman-Fried‘s, FTX empire suddenly collapsed, the residual effects reverberated in the...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Cuba Revisited: From Cold War to Normalization – and Back Again
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray is joined by Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Ada Ferrer, whose new book “Cuba: An American History” offers a new take on US-Cuba relations.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
“To Serve & Protect” Whom? Alec Karakatsanis on Copaganda
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alec Karakatsanis
What comes to mind when you hear the words “crime” and “safety?” For many, these words evoke images of poor people stealing things, or police enfor...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
RL Miller of Climate Hawks Vote on the Inflation Reduction Act
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: RL Miller
Are you weary of having to care about where headline-seeking Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema land on important topics? Well, according to t...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Healing a Country’s Wounds (Pt. 2): Public Dialogue
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we’ll continue our series on Healing a Country’s Wounds by talking about the strategy of Public Dialogues. ...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Aug 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Who Speaks For The Water?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Varsha
In the film adaptation of The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss, the unscrupulous Aloysius O’Hare sells oxygen. The audience is shocked and dismayed by this want...

Bought by WFHB and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Movement Building and Transnational Freedom Struggles
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020, and other police-shootings of Black people, the movement to "defund t...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Washington Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler on Accountability Journalism
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Headshot: Glenn Kessler
In this episode, we talk with Glenn Kessler, editor… and chief writer of the Washington Post Fact Checker… and credited with doing the first offici...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Returning Civility to Political Discourse
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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National polling in recent years has consistently reported that 2/3rds of those polled feel that there’s a major problem with civility in our natio...

Bought by KUNM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Returning Civility to Political Discourse (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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National polling in recent years has consistently reported that 2/3rds of those polled feel that there’s a major problem with civility in our natio...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KWMR, and KUNM


  • Added: Jul 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
World in Progress 06/11/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Fake trials in China’s Uighur camps - DW’s investigates fake trials in China’s "reeducation centers" in Xinjiang. Olivier...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Maurice Plaines on America’s Epidemic of Racism
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Maurice Plaines
This has been a difficult stretch for the country with millions sick, out of work, or simply stuck at home. But the horrific murder of George Floyd...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
News In Context: News Coverage of COVID-19, with Ed Beebout & Anne Belden
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: COVID 19 Word Cloud, Credit: EpicTop10.com
In this episode, we explore how the news media is doing in covering COVID-19 – including the responses of public officials… the data on infections ...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Witch Hunts and Enclosures: Bodies, Land and Women
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Silvia Federici
Today, witch hunts are still happening, in places like East Timor, India and Cambodia. Federici, who never really left the subject of witch hunts, ...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Steve Almond: How To Take Back the White House in 2020
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Steve Almond
What can all the money in the world buy you? Thanks to the Beatles, we already know it’s not love, but could it perhaps buy you the most powerful o...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Uprooting Racism offers a framework for understanding institutional racism. It provides practical suggestions, tools, examples, and advice on how w...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WVAS, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
How One Police Chief Apologized For A Lynching In His Town, 8 Decades Later
From: Megan Harris
Series: Criminal Injustice
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One police chief decided he needed to apologize for an incident 77 years ago: a lynching in his small Georgia town in 1940. LaGrange Chief Louis De...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:09
How To Rebuild A Police Agency From The Inside Out
From: Megan Harris
Series: Criminal Injustice
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From Obama-era task forces to widespread protests, the idea of community policing has become part of our national conversation. Jerry Clayton, the ...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 05:25
Facing the Danger of Facial Recognition
From: Megan Harris
Series: Criminal Injustice
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Facial recognition technology is being used by police all over the U.S. using images of millions of innocent Americans. It’s a lot less accurate th...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:14
Democracy in Crisis Episode 2: Against Normalization: Journalism in the Ages of Hitler & Trump
From: Democracy In Crisis
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In the latest episode of the Democracy in Crisis Podcast, hosts Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner speak with Ron Rosenbaum. He is the author of "Expla...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Feb 08, 2017
  • Length: 18:54
  • Purchases: 1
Peace Around Political Polarization
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, three guests who’ll touch on just a few of the many reasons political polarization continues in the U.S. Each...

Bought by KUHF, WUFT, WVPE, Prairie Public, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
In Deep with Angie Coiro: The NYPD Tapes
From: Gordon Whiting
Caption: Broadcasting from Menlo Park, California
Adrian Schoolcraft blew the whistle on the NYPD. For his trouble they had him suspended and put into a mental ward. The NYPD Tapes author Graham Ra...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:00
Political Junkie 11-24-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Politico's Lauren French discusses President Obama's immigration order, and how Republicans, in lieu of an immigration bill of their own, might thw...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WRKF and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 6