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07-13: One Percent Solutions: Climate Disruption, Fossil Billionaires and Democracy Deficits, 2/22/2017
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: john a. powell
Conspicuous climate disruption is here now. At the same time, a global super-elite of fossil fuel mega-billionaires has cinched a political strangl...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
Fighting for the Future of Hong Kong
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week the People’s Republic of China celebrates its 70th anniversary as months of pro-democracy demonstrations continue in Hong Kong. Demonstra...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Alan Pelaez Lopez - 437
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Alan Pelaez Lopez shares their forthcoming work, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien. They also read several pieces.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Port Authority: Race, Labor, and Logistics on the Docks
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The docks of San Francisco and Durban, South Africa – two essential locations where a commitment to black internationalism and leftist politics spa...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
The Port Chicago Sailors: Separate and Unequal
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Freddie Meeks, sailor in the disaster at weapons shipping depot in Port Chicago, Calif., holds a picture of himself as a young seaman July 14, 1994. He died in 2003. , Credit: (AP Photo/Chris Pizzelo)
Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...

Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Carceral Capitalism: An Interview with Jackie Wang
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her new book, Carceral Capitalism, poet and scholar Jackie Wang confronts mass incarceration in the US by delving into the processes that feed i...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 01:03:54
United Slaughterhouse of America: Josh Specht on the Cattle-Beef Complex
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In Red Meat Republic author Joshua Specht brings to life a turbulent era marked by Indian wars, Cowboy myths, Chicago labor unrest, and food riots ...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:26
Metaphors of Correction: Sheila Jasanoff on Life Science
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today’s show focuses on biology’s metaphors of control and how these are deployed to describe processes that are laughably uncontrollable. Sheila J...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Standing Up to the Sacklers
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Art organizations and sponsorship dollars have gone hand in hand for decades. But with backlash and protests over donors ethics, should cultural in...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Moments of Betterment: The Example of Eugene V. Debs
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
Our program features an in-studio interview with Paul Buhle; Debs’ words brought to life by four local writers; and ends with Buhle talking to an a...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Can Marijuana Create a Path to Justice?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The fight to legalize marijuana has never been easy, as evidenced by the recent collapse of months-long efforts in New Jersey and New York. A key i...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Great Smog
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata
What does Sandip Roy miss most about San Francisco? Clean Air.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Breathing Free
From: Wind & Rhythm
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What does “freedom” mean to you? Freedom to do what you want? Freedom from want? Or freedom to think for yourself? This week on Wind & Rhythm, we t...

Bought by KTXK, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUAL, and KMFA


  • Added: Feb 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 4
For Love of Money: Libertarian Opportunists
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Using their own words to condemn them, Rob Larson exposes these intellectual opportunists for what they are: defenders of cruel power systems. Men ...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Fandango at the Vote: SURJ & Arturo O'Farrill
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Looking back on the midterm elections, we ask the tough questions about white women voters and race, then get introduced to the hi-pinky salute acr...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Discussing the Largest Event on Planet Earth
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Catherine Shakdam and Hanan Al-Zubaidy
John Shuck speaks with Hanan Al-Zubaidy and Catherine Shakdam about his recent trip to Iraq for Arbaeen

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Nov 12, 2018
  • Length: 56:02
  • Purchases: 1
Driving the Peace Train: Eric Dawson on Putting Peace First
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest today, Eric Dawson, has spent twenty-five years training others to take up the burden of peace. He’s just published a book called Putting...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
Food Justice in Urban Agriculture
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Food --- from where it grows, to where it goes, all of it matters to our bodies and our communities. We begin October with a conversation about how...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Then They Came for Me
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Matthew Hockenos
Most of us are familiar with the Nazi concentration camp confession, “First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Luis Buñuel's The Young One: Anatomy of White Male Supremacy
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Actors Key Meersman and Zachary Scott in The Young One (1960)
As with our recent show on the 1954 Salt of the Earth, here is another “forgotten film” that seems a kind of impossibility. Made by a Spanish filmm...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2018
  • Length: 58:31
A Targeted Divide: What Bullets Do to Bodies and Lives
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Jooyoung Lee, Credit: Evan Doheny
This is the special 90-minute finale for our series A Targeted Divide. It’s called “What Bullets do to Bodies and Lives: Structural Violence, Firea...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WLPR


  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 01:28:38
  • Purchases: 2
A Targeted Divide: Gunning Down the Bill of Rights
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Michigan Liberty Militia Constitutional Enforcement rally Capitol Lansing MI March 24 2018., Credit: Photo by Theresa Rosado.
Today begins a series of three programs on guns in the USA: A Targeted Divide. Our first show is “Gunning Down the Bill of Rights,” how the 2nd Ame...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jul 04, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
Workers, Wildcats & New Models for Labor Organizing
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Laura talks to SEIU International President, Mary Kay Henry (of the Service Employees) and labor journalist Sarah Jaffe about worker wins, challeng...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Apr 18, 2018
  • Length: 28:35
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Anne Helen Petersen - 319
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Anne Helen Petersen discusses her book, Too Fat, Too Slutty, To Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4