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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
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On this episode, we'll explore felon disenfranchisement and the battle to restore the voting rights of people on parole. We will also turn our atte...

Bought by WXDU and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Carol Anderson, a professor at Emory University, discusses her book, “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy.” John...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 53:58
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
Caption: Sarah M Greer, Katrina Brogden and Katia Cardenas, Credit: Jenny Zander
To respond to the crises after the death of George Floyd, Pangea World Theater created a concert called the Burning Truth project. It is curated by...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
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Mishy Harman talks to Danny Tirza, a jovial retired IDF colonel who, back in 2002, was given an unusual – and logistically nearly impossible – miss...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 08:17
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
Caption: Dr Dean Alger, Credit: WWOZ Staff
Dr Dean Alger is a political scientist with five books to his credit, he has written about influential bluesman Lonnie Johnson and he sings and pla...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
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Poetry and music which reacts to racism and social unrest.

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 56:34
  • Purchases: 1
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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
Caption: Monopole in Savoy, MA, Credit: James Szkobel-Wolff
The Covid-19 Pandemic has changed how we live and work in the modern era. For most, that’s meant going online. But for an estimated 150 million Ame...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2020
  • Length: 32:00
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In her book, The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s, published by Knopf, Maggie Doherty, tells the story o...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
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What is most striking is that what Dan Nemser describes of 17th century Mexico City is a mode of organization nearly unchanged over four centuries....

  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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American labor leader Eugene V. Debs gave a speech in June of 1918 to a movement rally in which he condemned US involvement in the First World War....

Bought by KUNM and KFCF FM


  • Added: May 01, 2020
  • Length: 57:48
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Who Bombed Judi Bari?, explores Judi Bari’s bold activism to save the Redwood Forest in the face of corporate gre...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, Laura interviews author and Yale historian Greg Grandin about his new book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wa...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 26, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
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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
Caption: B-24J Liberators of the 579th Bomb Squadron drop incendiary bombs made from fighter plane drop tanks filled with napalm on targets near Royan, France, Apr 15 1945.
H. Bruce Franklin (Crash Course) returns to help us connect lots of dots. He’ll argue, among other things, that we need to learn what three particu...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 1
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WMRA and James Madison University present The John Grisham Writers Hour with special guest Jon Meacham.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
Caption: film cover art, Credit: Freedom Archives
Our radio adaptation of the film Symbols of Resistance: A Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chicano Movement, offers a reflection on the untold stories...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
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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
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"In a system that's unequal, corruption is not just the way we swim, its the water we swim in..." The F-Word, Laura Flanders' bi-monthly commentary.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:00