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Forgotten People
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Arthur Lieber
It wasn’t that long ago that the Democratic party was primarily made up of blue collar workers. That has flipped in the last few years, especially ...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Pandemic Economy (release date December 30, 2020)
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’...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Children & Toxins
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Philip Landrigan
Thousands of new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Yet, most of those chemicals ...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Electoral College
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kenneth Foard McCallion
America’s electoral system has had a rough time over the last 20 years. Two of the last four president’s did not receive the national majority vote...

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Three years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. We bring you a Haymarket Books talk by Ma...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Confederate Monuments
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Connor Towne O'Neill
Separate but equal. That phrase came from the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896. It was a landmark decision known as Plessy v Ferguson that upheld the con...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Future Rising
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Maynard
Most of us spend a good part of our time in the future. That is, we ponder what tomorrow brings. Or, even later today. Though we only have a snapsh...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Paul Metsa Re-Releases 1992 Recordings that are Just as Relevant in 2020
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Paul Metsa, Credit: Howard Christopherson
Paul Metsa is a defining Minneapolis musician of this generation. Reflecting on his recording career, Paul believes that a 1992 project called Whis...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
Planetary Health
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Howard Frumkin
Recent events around the globe clearly demonstrates the interconnectedness of human health and the health of our planet. Heat waves in California, ...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Diversifying Power
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jennie C. Stephens
The inadequate response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the US has also thwarted the country’s response to the climate crisis. Some feel it’s due to le...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
November 2020 – LGBTQ youth react to the anti-marriage equality statement from Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCaster Lil
OutCaster Lil presents OutCasters' views on statement from Justices Thomas and Alito attacking marriage equality

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 08:33
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Pursuing Racial Justice
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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A wide-ranging discussion about the pursuit of racial justice in a historically white institution like the University of Iowa; racial barriers that...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 01:27:08
Voting in Indian Country
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jean Reith Schroedel
When we hear about voter suppression, we usually think of the multiple attempts at preventing blacks from voting. What we seldom hear about are the...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Cults in America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Robert Jay Lifton
Following decades researching cults, Robert Jay Lifton concludes “that the psychological relationship between extremist political movements and fan...

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  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Steven Dudley
Most of us, by now, are familiar with the gang known as MS-13. How it evolved into a violent group is a peculiar story with a twist on its evolution.

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Eric Deggans, NPR TV critic and Author of 'RACE-BAITER" on Language, Travel and Media
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Race-Baiting book cover
World Footprints talks race-baiting, travel, media and music with NPR TV critic Eric Deggans.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 40:26
Patriots of Two Nations
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Spencer Critchley
A well run democracy takes a lot of work on the part of the citizenry. People need to be informed. In America today, there is a rising brand of lib...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Synchronicity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paul Halpern
There always seems to be a peculiar twist in understanding our world. How it works. Just when we think of have a grip on it, like a greased pig, it...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Intrigue, Treason, and Romance in Jennie Field's Atomic Love
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
Caption: Author Jennie Fields, Credit: Anthony Scarlati
"Atomic Love" is Jennie Fields' new book. It’s a work of historical fiction set against the backdrop of Chicago after WW2, where we meet Rosalind P...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2020
  • Length: 09:30
A Wonderful Life
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frank Martela
With the topsy-turvy world we live in today, it is difficult to have a positive, rosy spin on things. COVID, fires, hurricanes, and the weakening e...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Prison By Any Other Name
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Maya Schenwar
There is a litany of names for what is understood to be substitutes for jail or prison. Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment facilitie...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Economic Dignity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Gene Sperling
COVID has put America in a health and economic tailspin. The loss of loved ones that is growing every day, jobs that may never return, evictions fo...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw #1752 (Hour 1 & 2) - 08-27-2020
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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An organ big band drives things open, Radam Schwartz is inspired by the Richard Groove Holmes/Gerald Wilson recordings. The guy who gave Charlie Pa...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 10
The Coming of Neo Feudalism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joel Kotkin
Feudalism. Now that’s a word you don’t hear very often. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a structured society of that nature. But, even more c...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Turnaway Study
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Diana Green Foster
After all of the debates there is finally a comprehensive study on the impact abortion has on a woman. Devoid of knowledge based information in the...

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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