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269: Solidarity Economics: Taking It to the Bank to Build Community Wealth , 4/24/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Laura Flanders
In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing the assets th...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Tax Day: Who Gets the Gold Mine, Who Gets the Shaft?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Taxes are necessary for a civilized society, and most ordinary people pay their fair share.  But there's one group that pays nothing at all, while ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
247: Democracy vs. Plutocracy Part One: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime, 1/31/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Thom Hartmann
In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy. In today’s new G...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Top of Mind - The Hidden Cost of Fines and Fees
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Fines and fees have become the default way we punish people; deterrence is the ultimate goal, but do fines actually deter bad behavior?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
Katherine Miller, advocate and author of At The Table: The Chef’s Guide to Advocacy
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that chefs are uniquely positioned to drive food system change for good? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda...

Bought by KVNF, RadioFreePalmer, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
03-16: Raced and Classed: The Journey from Diversity to Equity, 6/21/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Rinku Sen
What we do to each other, we do to the Earth. To protect our common home, we’re being called upon to bridge our differences to create beloved commu...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Gaping Inequality, The American Nightmare for Workers: Abigail Disney
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received a message from a worker at Disney’s flagship theme park, she disc...

Bought by KWMR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Upstream: Worker Cooperatives
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Artwork by Phil Wrigglesworth
On today's show we learn about worker cooperatives: what are they and can they offer an alternative to the dominant capitalist mindset? Our partner...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUT


  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The History of Democracy Has Yet to be Written
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Thomas Geoghengan
End the filibuster. Abolish the Senate. Make everyone vote. Only if we do this, and a little bit more, says labor lawyer and former candidate for A...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Compromise and Concessions
From: Rebecca McInroy
Series: American Compassion
Caption: American Compassion, Credit: Bonnie Siegler
Explore the complicated and rich history behind the compromises made in order to get the New Deal through, and what lasting consequences they have ...

Bought by KUT and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:38
  • Purchases: 2
FDR and The New Deal
From: Rebecca McInroy
Series: American Compassion
Caption: American Compassion, Credit: Bonnie Siegler
The third episode of American Compassion dives into the story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, exploring who he was and focusing on how FDR, born to w...

Bought by KUT and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
World in Progress 07/14/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: How old is too old to work? - Despite reaching retirement age, work never stops for civil servants in the Democratic R...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 15, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
2022-01-28 State of the Unions: Navigating Job Creation and Destruction
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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With expanding electrical infrastructure and some jurisdictions beginning to ban gas appliances in new construction, the transition to a clean ener...

Bought by KUHF, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 11
220128: State of the Unions: Navigating Job Creation and Destruction, 1/28/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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With expanding electrical infrastructure and some jurisdictions beginning to ban gas appliances in new construction, the transition to a clean ener...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
Teaching a Man to Fish in a Steel Mill in Gary, Indiana
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Aerial view of the Gary Works in 1973.
Today we discuss the work of the late Noel Ignatiev using the memoir that has just been published by Charles H. Kerr. It’s called Acceptable Men: L...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
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
Ep 9: Debunking the Myth of Homo economicus
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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What do you see when you peek behind the curtains of neoliberal capitalism? What happens when you lift the veil off? Well, you see a mythological c...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 56:09
12-13: A Parade of Dwarves: Democratizing Wealth for a New Economy, 11/4/2020
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Gar Alperovitz
How extreme is wealth disparity in the U.S.? Imagine every person in the economy walks by, in order of income from low to high, with heights propor...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:31
Political Songs for Pandemic Times
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 813 (Air Dates: July 27 - Aug 2, 2020) Today we present a special edition of Art of the Song featuring Political Songs for Pandemic Times. We ...

Bought by WMPG, GCR (Global Community Radio), KZMU Moab Community Radio, KNBA, WHRV and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Tell the Bosses We're Coming
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Shaun Richman
A myriad of issues have come to light as we deal with the COVID pandemic. We are discovering weaknesses in our health care and workforce. Neither i...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
02-14: Real Change: The Political Gets Personal, 6/3/2020
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Danny Glover
How can we manifest the world we want, and who we want to be? Actor-activist Danny Glover and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, former CEO of Green For All, s...

  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:31
In Defense of Public Service
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cedric Alexander
The folks who do the behind-the-scenes work that keeps our country running have been frequently disparaged by the Trump administration. The “Deep S...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
The Crime of Punishment
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Virginia State Penitentiary
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2019
  • Length: 27:05