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Pandemic Economics: Robert Reich, Esteban Kelly, Mary Kay Henry, Stephanie Kelton
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The economic collapse unfolding before our eyes is much bigger than it appears and the solution isn’t simply to “build back better.” COVID-19 didn’...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel Part 2
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poets and curators Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel continue to discuss the anthology "We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics," a co...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Canada's Slavery Secret
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week we take a look at Canada and its history of Black enslavement. Canada, our northern neighbor, is rarely mentioned when we talk about the ...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Inauguration 2021: Democracy Demands a Democratic Economy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A new administration takes office in the midst of an ongoing public health catastrophe and an economic crisis, on the heels of one of the most pola...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Fighting for the Ballot: Race and Voter Suppression in the 2020 Election
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Voter suppression and its target’s aren’t new phenomena. People of color and the poor have always been dissuaded from voting. We take a look at how...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
70 Million: Voting from Jail is a Right, and Now a Reality in Chicago
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Talman Anderson votes in the Illinois presidential preference primary from the Cook County Jail, Credit: Photo by Pamela Kirkland
A year ago, Illinois passed a law requiring all jails to ensure that pre-trial detainees have an opportunity to vote. Chicago’s Cook County Jail wa...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXDU, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 03, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
From Another Country: Bill Mullen on James Baldwin’s Revolutionary Life
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: James Baldwin on the water of the Golden Horn, Istanbul © Sedat Pakay 1965. , Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
In his book Mullen shows how Baldwin’s life is “a bracing testimonial to being the first African-American radical to make his sexuality an integral...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:19
The Cunning Figure of the Virus: Elizabeth Povinelli on Late Liberalism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The fact that the Virus is a symptom of capitalism seems like a simple conclusion, but Povinelli explains that the Virus reveals how historic modes...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Stacked Crooked: Renting Rooms In the Humanities Ghetto
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The University of California Santa Cruz wildcat strike for a cost of living adjustment - an action that has been gaining traction across the whole ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
20-06 Great Music in Times of Turmoil: Dowland, Byrd, Romero, Brouwer, Daugherty. Interviews: Paul O'Dette, Ronn McFarlane, Pepe Romero, Manuel Barrueco
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Queen Elizabeth I playing the lute
This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features great music that was created during times of political turmoil from the 16th Century to 20t...

Bought by KXIQ , WVIA, 'The Sea', WHQR, WUAL and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 50
Three Kings: Agents of Radical Christianity
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we highlight exemplars: A. J. Muste, Mister Rogers, and Benjamin Lay. These were men who lived lives that challenged the expectations of thei...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
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
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
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
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
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
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: 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
Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning and Connection for the America We Want
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Frances Moore Lappe and Adam Eichen
Frances Moore Lappe and Adam Eichen team up to get people excited about restoring democracy and getting money out of politics.

Bought by KGUA, KPIP-LP, WETS, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2018
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 4
Jesus in the White House
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Gina Messina
If Jesus was President, how would his policies measure up against those of the Trump Administration? Would Christians of the Trump Era support a Pr...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jan 14, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2